New Orleans Louisiana USA-1958: Man Rollicking In The Waves Of 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 Rollicking In The Waves Of The Ocean — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1958 showing a man swimming in choppy ocean waves off the coast of New Orleans, Louisiana. The grainy, monochrome film captures the surging water and overcast sky through a dark frame border, with visible scratches and film imperfections. A lone swimmer appears in the turbulent surf, moving through the crashing waves under a gray, stormy sky. The footage has a nostalgic, authentic 1950s home movie quality with natural lighting and unscripted action.

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: 120977721

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 home-movie surf footage for documentary inserts about leisure, coastal weather, swimming, or midcentury vacation travel near New Orleans.
Period detail: The frames show soft 8mm color, heavy border shadows, and casual beach activity that fit the supplied 1958 home-movie metadata, with no visible landmarks to confirm location.
Home-movie behavior: An unidentified swimmer moves through rough surf in an unstaged family-film view, emphasizing bodily effort and changing waves rather than posed beach recreation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include choppy surf, gray sky, distant wave lines, a lone swimmer, dark film gate edges, scratches, and uneven exposure across the frame.
Film character: The clip has a muted 8mm texture with grain, scratches, soft focus, slight underexposure, and dark frame borders that signal original home-movie film handling.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief cutaway, memory beat, weather transition, or atmospheric insert for midcentury coastal recreation and rough-water scenes.
Historical context: The footage records casual swimming in unsettled surf, offering social context for home-movie documentation of leisure without identifying people or a specific beach landmark.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from depiction rights.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1950s 8mm swimmer in waves, New Orleans coastal home movie, rough surf vintage footage, and midcentury beach recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel beach or travel scenes, then with 1958 New Orleans or Louisiana footage, then with broader vintage surf, swimming, and coastal weather material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm home-movie frame of rough surf near New Orleans, with soft focus, gray sky, and dark film gate edges. — Rough surf rolls across the frame beneath an overcast sky.

Soft 8mm view of ocean waves and a low horizon, with a heavy vertical border and visible film wear. — A blurred wave line and horizon appear through the dark film border.

Distant swimmer in choppy coastal water, filmed in soft 1958 8mm home-movie texture with breaking waves behind. — A swimmer appears low in the water as waves break across the background.

1958 8mm frame of an unidentified swimmer wading through rough surf near New Orleans, with muted color and visible film scratches. — An unidentified swimmer moves through foamy surf as a larger wave rises behind.

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