Seaside New Jersey USA-1949: Man Jumps Into Ocean

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationSeaside, New Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1949 Seaside New Jersey

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Man Jumps Into Ocean — Clip Details

SEASIDE NEW JERSEY USA-1949: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a man in swim trunks jumping into the ocean. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows him mid-air against a backdrop of trees and distant hills. The sequence ends with turbulent blue-green water and white foam, showcasing the authentic look of mid-century amateur film with natural light and slight motion blur.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120777872

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1071 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: jody eileen,steves bar mitzvah,barkins bungalows,canada,hotel,puerto rico
Reel-level year note: 1949-1955-1957-1970
Reel-level location note: canada,st. thomas,new jersey, philadephia
Date: 1949 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Seaside, New Jersey, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1949 8mm seaside home-movie clip helps document mid-century American leisure, swimming, and informal beach or shore recreation for documentary inserts and memory sequences.
Period detail: The swim trunks, soft color palette, handheld framing, and grainy 8mm texture support a late-1940s home-movie reading, while the visible setting remains a general waterside swimming area rather than an identifiable landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip captures an unstaged recreational moment as a man jumps into blue-green water while another adult stands nearby, giving the footage casual family-film value.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a shirtless adult man, swim trunks, pool or ocean-edge water, splashing foam, trees, distant hazy hills, bright daylight, and handheld framing.
Film character: The footage has pronounced 8mm grain, faded color, uneven exposure, motion blur, and slight frame instability that give it authentic amateur-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, summer-memory beat, splash transition, or period recreation cutaway within a 1940s leisure sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects informal outdoor swimming and recreational filming in the postwar home-movie era without providing enough visible detail to identify a specific beach, property, or event.
Research note: A visible adult face and likeness may require review for commercial uses, while no logos, children, audible music, or clearly identifiable private property are visible in the supplied frames.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1949 8mm swimming footage, vintage New Jersey seaside home movie, man jumping into water, mid-century summer recreation, and amateur film splash sequence.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Seaside, New Jersey 1949 material, and then with broader vintage swimming, beach, shore, or summer leisure clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In this 1949 seaside home-movie frame from Seaside, New Jersey, a shirtless adult man in dark swim trunks stands near the water with trees and distant hazy hills in the background. — Man standing near the water before the jump.

A blurred figure drops into blue-green water near the edge of the swimming area, with the 1949 home-movie frame emphasizing motion and splash rather than facial detail. — Jump into the water captured with motion blur.

Blue-green water churns with white foam and bubbles immediately after the swimmer enters the water in this short 8mm seaside recreation sequence. — Foam and bubbles after impact.

The frame is filled by turbulent blue-green water and fading white foam, closing the 1949 seaside home-movie jump sequence with an abstract splash view. — Churning water after the jump.

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