Betterton Maryland-1963: White Frame Resort Hotels Among Autumn Trees Above a Sandy Beach

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

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What is in this clip

off-season resort
autumn foliage
waterfront architecture
Chesapeake Bay
vanished resort hotels
small-town America
travel and leisure

Shot type: wide
Camera: static · eye level, from across the water
Setting: outdoor · Bay shoreline with a sandy beach, white frame resort buildings and autumn trees on a low rise
Time and weather: day · autumn · clear
Lighting: Bright direct sunlight with deep shadows across the building fronts
People: 0 · No people visible.
Landmarks: Betterton Beach waterfront
Objects: three-storey white frame hotel · pavilion with hipped roof · long white single-storey building · gabled building with porches · sandy beach · autumn trees · calm water
Colors: violet-blue · white · orange · gold · dark green · tan
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: High

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Wide view across calm water to a sandy beach with white frame hotels and autumn trees behind it.
The framing holds on the three-storey white hotel and the hipped-roof pavilion below it.
The shot continues unchanged, with red and gold foliage and the long white building at left.

White Frame Resort Hotels Among Autumn Trees Above a... — Clip Details

Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963 home movie footage of white frame resort hotels standing among red, orange and gold autumn trees above a narrow sandy beach. A three-storey white hotel with rows of windows rises behind a low pavilion with a dark hipped roof and a band of windows along its lower level, and a long white single-storey building runs along the left edge. Calm dark water fills the foreground. It is one steady wide shot filmed from across the water, with no people visible.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Wide shotExterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000534

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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: Suits requests for early-1960s colour views of a Chesapeake Bay resort town, especially an establishing shot of Betterton's waterfront hotels for documentary or exhibit use.
Period detail: White wood-frame resort hotels and a hipped-roof beach pavilion stand intact above the beach, buildings of a kind that Betterton has since largely lost to demolition and fire.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor's steady look back at the shore from across the water, filmed out of season as a keepsake view of the place with nobody on the beach.
What appears in frame: A three-storey white hotel, a low pavilion with a dark hipped roof, a long white building at left, a gabled building behind trees, red and gold foliage, a sandy beach and calm water.
Film character: Regular 8mm colour with saturated autumn tones, a violet cast in the sky, dense shadows, visible grain and a mild softness typical of small-gauge projection transfer.
Edit role: Works as a static establishing shot or a quiet memory beat introducing a resort-town sequence.
Historical context: Betterton was a steamboat resort in Kent County, Maryland that once had 11 resort hotels, and this view shows part of its beach front around the time excursion traffic was ending.
Research note: No people, logos or readable signs appear; the buildings are private property seen from a distance, and footage copyright is separate from any property considerations a buyer may weigh.
Research search match: Betterton Maryland 1960s, Chesapeake Bay resort hotel 8mm, white frame hotel autumn waterfront, off-season beach resort home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's Hotel Betterton sign, boardwalk walker, shack in the bay and cabin cruiser clips, then with other 1960s Chesapeake Bay or autumn resort footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

White frame resort hotel and beach pavilion among autumn trees above the bay beach at Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963, from 8mm home movie film. — White frame resort buildings above the beach at Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963, with autumn colour in the trees.
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Three-storey white hotel behind a dark-roofed pavilion on the Betterton, Maryland waterfront in fall colour, circa 1963, 8mm film still. — The three-storey white hotel and the pavilion below it, Betterton waterfront, circa 1963.
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Off-season Chesapeake Bay shore at Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963: white wooden resort buildings and a gabled hotel half hidden by autumn trees. — An empty beach and resort buildings in autumn at Betterton on the upper Chesapeake Bay, circa 1963.
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Sunlit white frame hotel and pavilion above an empty beach in Betterton, Kent County, Maryland, circa 1963, with tall bare and autumn-coloured trees. — Empty sand below the white frame hotel and pavilion at Betterton, Maryland, circa 1963.
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