New Orleans Louisiana USA-1958: Man Swimming In The Ocean

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 New Orleans Louisiana

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Man Swimming In The Ocean — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1958 showing a man swimming in the ocean off the coast of New Orleans, Louisiana. The grainy, slightly faded color film captures the surging waves and the solitary swimmer navigating the churning water under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with visible film grain, scratches, and dark borders, offering authentic archival material for historical or nostalgic projects.

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: 120977709

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 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: New Orleans, Louisiana, 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

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: 1950s 8mm coastal swimming footage for documentary inserts, vacation-memory sequences, or archival cutaways of surf and recreation near New Orleans.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century home-movie beach outing, with no visible landmarks or clothing details beyond a distant swimmer in rough water.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged handheld view of one person swimming through choppy surf as the camera follows from shore or shallow water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include breaking waves, foamy surf, a distant swimmer, gray sky, ocean horizon, dark film borders, and contact-sheet frame divisions.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, scratches, slight fading, handheld framing, and dark gate edges that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief ocean cutaway, vacation transition, weathered memory beat, or visual bridge into a 1950s coastal recreation scene.
Historical context: The footage documents ordinary leisure at the water’s edge, with the swimmer and surf more prominent than any identifiable New Orleans landmark.
Research note: A person is visible at distance, so copyright, likeness, and location-use review should remain separate and no clearance should be assumed from the image alone.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 8mm ocean swimming, New Orleans Louisiana home movie, vintage beach surf, and 1950s man swimming footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 New Orleans or Louisiana footage, then broader 1950s beach and ocean recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm frame of a distant man swimming in rough ocean water near New Orleans, with breaking waves and a low horizon. — A distant swimmer moves through choppy surf beneath an overcast sky.

1958 8mm frame showing turbulent surf and a small distant swimmer in the ocean near New Orleans. — The swimmer appears small against the rolling, foamy water.

1958 8mm frame of a swimmer partly lost in choppy surf, with pale sky and ocean horizon visible. — Breaking waves partially obscure the swimmer in the surf.

1958 8mm frame of rough ocean surf near New Orleans, with a low horizon and softened home-movie exposure. — The shot settles on rough water and a low ocean horizon.

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