Ohio USA-1966: Dolphin Jumping to Reach Ball

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationOhio, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 Ohio

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Dolphin Jumping to Reach Ball — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Ohio USA in 1966 captures a dolphin performing a dramatic jump out of a pool at a theme park attraction. The grainy, color-bleached film shows the dolphin leaping high to reach a ball, with splashing water and a crowd of onlookers visible in the background. The scene includes a painted backdrop with trees and a small stage, typical of mid-century aquatic shows. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—film grain, slight color fading, and a narrow frame—evoking a nostalgic, retro atmosphere of 1960s family entertainment.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120944011

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only 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.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: 1966 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: Ohio, 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: This clip supports archival requests for 1960s American leisure, family-shot amusement attractions, and aquatic animal show inserts for documentary or educational editing.
Period detail: The frames show color 8mm footage with a painted aquatic-show set, pool barriers, spectators, and mid-century theme-park staging consistent with the supplied 1966 Ohio metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries a visitor-shot perspective, observing a dolphin performance from the audience side rather than from a staged production camera position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dolphin leaping and surfacing in a show pool, heavy splashing water, painted stage scenery, low railings, spectators in the background, and signs or logos that may require review.
Film character: The scan has strong 8mm texture, soft focus, color fading, exposure variation, frame-edge darkness, and contact-sheet artifacts that preserve the physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century family entertainment, animal attractions, or theme-park travel sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects a public leisure setting where visitors watched trained marine-animal performances, with the social context visible through audience placement and attraction signage.
Research note: People and signage or logos are visible, so copyright, trademark, likeness, venue, and animal-performance context should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1960s Ohio 8mm dolphin show, vintage theme park aquatic attraction, home movie marine mammal performance, and dolphin jumping for ball footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1966 Ohio amusement or attraction footage, and finally broader 1960s family leisure or aquatic-show material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1966 Ohio 8mm home-movie footage, a dolphin surfaces or begins a jump in a pool beside low railings, with painted show scenery and distant spectators behind it. — Dolphin emerges in the show pool.

The dolphin is airborne or partly airborne amid a large burst of spray, with the aquatic-show set, pool edge, and indistinct spectators visible in the background. — Dolphin leap with heavy spray.

A broad splash spreads across the show pool after the dolphin movement, with railings, painted scenery, and background audience areas visible through the soft 8mm image. — Splash spreads across the pool.

In the final frame, the dolphin surfaces near the edge of the pool beside a small stage set, with a standing person, signs, painted scenery, and attraction structures visible. — Dolphin near stage and poolside figure.

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