Cape Cod Massachusetts-1955: Hand-Drawn Title Card With Lighthouse, Boat and Script Lettering

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationCape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
Duration3s
Price$149 USD
Collection1955 · Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1955 · Cape Cod · Reel cd7e743d contains 2 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

family vacation
amateur filmmaking
seaside travel
maritime imagery
title design
New England coast
1950s leisure

Shot type: close-up
Camera: static
Setting: indoor · A hand-drawn title card filling the frame, filmed for a home movie
Time and weather: indeterminate (title card) · summer vacation implied by seaside artwork · not applicable
Lighting: Even, flat light across the card
People: 0 · No real people appear; small cartoon beachgoers are part of the drawn artwork.
Animals: drawn seagull · drawn fish · drawn starfish
Vehicles: drawn boat with smokestack · drawn sailboat
Objects: title card · drawn lighthouse · fishing net drawing · script lettering · stylized waves
Readable signs: Cape Cod
Colors: teal · pale blue-white · black
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: High
Location confidence: High

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The 'Cape Cod' title card appears, framed by a drawn lighthouse and boat.
The camera holds steady on the script lettering and seaside border art.
The card remains on screen as the clip ends.

Hand-Drawn Title Card With Lighthouse, Boat and Script... — Clip Details

Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 1955 home movie footage shows a hand-drawn title card made for a family trip reel. Looping script reads 'Cape Cod' across a pale panel, framed by a lighthouse on the left, a small boat with a smokestack on drawn waves, a gull, a starfish, a fish and cartoon beachgoers along the top border. The camera holds on the card in one static shot of under three seconds. The 8mm image renders the artwork in teal, pale blue and black ink lines.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 3s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001623

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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: 1955 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: Cape Cod, Massachusetts, 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: Solves requests for a 1950s on-screen place title for Cape Cod, giving documentaries and education pieces a period-made card to open a vacation or New England coast segment.
Period detail: The hand-lettered script, nautical cartoon border and teal colour rendering may show the look of mid-1950s amateur titling, and the reel dates the card to 1955.
Home-movie behavior: An amateur filmmaker drew and filmed a personal title to frame the family's Cape Cod trip, turning a vacation reel into a small homemade production.
What appears in frame: A looping 'Cape Cod' script heading, a lighthouse on the left, a small boat with a smokestack on drawn waves, a gull, a starfish and a fish along the top border, and a fishing net down the right edge.
Film character: Regular 8mm captured from projection, with soft focus, fine grain, light dust specks and a cool teal-and-white colour cast that gives the card a worn period texture.
Edit role: Works as a title insert or chapter marker that names the place before cutting to beach or trip footage.
Historical context: The card shows how a family filmmaker labelled a vacation reel with seaside motifs, at a time when colour 8mm stock had been available to amateurs for nearly two decades.
Research note: The artwork may be the filmmaker's own drawing or copied from a printed source, so its copyright is uncertain and separate from the film itself; no real people or private property appear.
Research search match: Fits searches such as 1950s Cape Cod home movie title, hand-drawn 8mm title card, 1955 family vacation film titles and vintage lighthouse illustration footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Cape Cod beach surf clip and its 'Walterry Productions' and 'Our Visit To' titles, then with other 1955 Cape Cod or Massachusetts coast footage, then with other homemade vacation title cards.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 8mm home movie title card reading 'Cape Cod', Massachusetts, framed by a drawn lighthouse, boat and gull — Opening frame of the hand-drawn 'Cape Cod' title card from a 1955 family vacation reel.
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Teal 1955 Cape Cod title artwork on 8mm film, with a gull, fish and cartoon beachgoers along the top border — The card's top border carries a gull, a fish, a small sailboat and cartoon beachgoers.
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Hand-drawn boat on stylized waves below 'Cape Cod' lettering, 1955 Massachusetts vacation home movie title — A small boat with a smokestack rides drawn waves beneath the script title.
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Closing frame of a 1955 Cape Cod title card on 8mm, with lighthouse, starfish and looping script lettering — The camera holds on the Cape Cod card to the end of the shot.
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