Betterton Maryland-1963: Weathered Wooden Shack on a Platform Reflected in Calm Bay Water

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationBetterton, Maryland, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 · Betterton, Maryland, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

decay
abandonment
waterfront
stillness
reflection
off-season resort
Chesapeake Bay
passage of time

Shot type: medium
Camera: static · eye level
Setting: outdoor · Calm open bay water with a derelict wooden building on a low platform and a faint far shoreline
Time and weather: daytime · autumn · calm and hazy
Lighting: Low-angle side sunlight on the left end of the building, deep shadow on the right gable, hazy sky
People: 0 · No people visible.
Objects: wooden shack · sagging roof · platform · ladder or ramp · doorway · window openings · small buoy or marker
Colors: violet-grey · brown · pale tan · dark blue-grey · black
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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The derelict wooden shack fills the centre of frame on its platform in calm water.
The view holds steady; slow ripples move through the reflection below the platform.
The framing is unchanged, with the hazy far shore and a small floating marker at the right edge.

Weathered Wooden Shack on a Platform Reflected in Calm... — Clip Details

Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963 home movie footage of a derelict wooden building standing on a low platform in calm water on the upper Chesapeake Bay. The roof sags along its ridge, the weathered siding is pale on the sunlit end and dark at the gable, and an open bay in the middle shows daylight through the structure. A short ladder or ramp leans from the platform into the water, and the reflection lies almost unbroken on the surface. Filmed on 8mm in one steady telephoto shot with no people or boats in view.

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: 800000532

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1963 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: Betterton, Maryland, 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: Helps a request for early 1960s Chesapeake Bay or small resort-town waterfront footage that shows decline and disuse without people in frame.
Period detail: The shot has no cars, clothing or signs; the weathered timber building may show an old working waterfront structure, and the saturated regular 8mm colour matches the early 1960s reel around it.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor with a home movie camera stops to hold a careful long-lens view of a ruin in the water, the sort of thing that catches an amateur's eye on an off-season walk.
What appears in frame: A wooden building with a sagging roof, a low pale platform, a short ladder or ramp into the water, an open bay through the middle, a calm reflection, a hazy far shore and a small floating marker.
Film character: Regular 8mm with visible grain, strong colour, a violet cast in the sky and water, deep shadows on the gable and a few dust specks, held steady for the whole shot.
Edit role: Works as a quiet cutaway, a memory beat or a passage-of-time insert, and can hold as a near-still frame under narration.
Historical context: Betterton was a steamboat resort on the upper Chesapeake Bay whose larger hotels and amusement pier were later demolished or lost to fire; this shot shows one decaying waterfront structure from that period.
Research note: No people or logos are visible; the building is unidentified and its ownership unknown, so property questions stay separate from copyright in the film, and the place rests on the reel, not on this shot.
Research search match: Derelict shack in calm water, abandoned building on a platform in the bay, 1960s Chesapeake Bay 8mm home movie, Betterton Maryland waterfront.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's boardwalk walk, cabin cruiser passing the red-roofed pier, hotels in fall foliage and Hotel Betterton sign, then other early 1960s Chesapeake footage, then waterfront decay scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Derelict wooden shack on a platform in calm upper Chesapeake Bay water at Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963, from 8mm home movie film. — A derelict wooden building stands on a low platform in still bay water at Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963.
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Sunlit and shadowed ends of an abandoned waterfront shack at Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963, with a small floating marker at the right edge. — Side light picks out the pale left end of the shack while the right gable stays in shadow; a small marker floats at the edge of frame.
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Open-sided derelict building with a ladder down to the water, Chesapeake Bay at Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963, regular 8mm film frame. — Daylight shows through the open middle of the building, and a short ladder or ramp slants from the platform into the bay.
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Still bay water and hazy horizon around a decaying wooden shack off Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963, in grainy 8mm colour. — The shot holds unchanged to the end: a decaying shack, smooth water and a faint line of far shore under haze.
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