Yorktown Virginia-1958: Boat Trip Through The Lake

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationYorktown, Virginia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Yorktown Virginia

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Boat Trip Through The Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene boat trip across a calm lake in Yorktown, Virginia. The footage shows a small island with dense trees and a stone shoreline, viewed from a moving vessel. The camera pans slowly, revealing a large lakeside house nestled among tall pines. The image has a soft, nostalgic quality with muted greens and grays, typical of 8mm film from the era, and shows natural film grain and slight motion blur. This archival clip evokes a sense of peaceful summer leisure and mid-century Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127285974

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Yorktown, Virginia, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s editorial or documentary sequences needing quiet home-movie views from a boat on water near a wooded Virginia shoreline.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft exposure, and lakeside house glimpsed through trees may show mid-century recreational travel and waterfront leisure.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the casual perspective of someone filming from a moving boat, lingering on shoreline trees, water, and a house partly hidden by woods.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling water, a small wooded point or island, stone shoreline, mature trees, a docklike edge, and a lakeside house behind pines.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm grain, muted green-gray color, light gate marks, and handheld motion that give the clip physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a quiet establishing insert, travel transition, waterfront cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a mid-century sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually suggests recreational boating and shoreline observation in Yorktown, Virginia, without identifying a specific landmark or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the visible lakeside house and shoreline should still be reviewed for copyright and property concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm boat trip, Yorktown Virginia lake footage, wooded shoreline home movie, vintage water travel, and mid-century lakeside house.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Yorktown or 1958 Virginia footage, then broader home-movie boating, lake, and waterfront leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm view from a boat toward a small wooded shoreline in Yorktown, Virginia, with water in the foreground. — A boat passes a tree-covered shoreline point with water in the foreground.

Soft 8mm frame of a tree-covered shoreline or small island seen from a moving boat in Yorktown, Virginia. — The camera holds on a low wooded shoreline bordered by water.

A 1958 boat-view frame shows a tree-lined point and open lake water under a pale sky in Yorktown, Virginia. — A wooded point recedes as the boat moves past open water.

Lakeside house behind tall trees, viewed from the water in 1958 Yorktown, Virginia home-movie footage. — A waterfront house appears behind pines and leafy trees along the shore.

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