New Orleans Louisiana USA-1958: Coral Reef with Schools of Fish

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

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Coral Reef with Schools of Fish — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm underwater footage from 1958 captures a mysterious aquatic adventure in New Orleans, Louisiana. The clip opens with glowing turquoise bioluminescent particles swirling in the dark water, transitioning to a vibrant coral reef teeming with marine life. Schools of small fish dart through dense seagrass and coral formations under a deep blue ocean surface. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, exploratory mood. This authentic home movie offers a rare glimpse into mid-century underwater exploration and vacation memories.

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: 120977849

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s 8mm editorial requests needing underwater vacation or aquatic nature footage from a home-movie travel reel.
Period detail: The frames show mid-century color 8mm underwater photography with heavy blue-green cast, soft focus, and no visible modern markers.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor-shot underwater viewpoint, lingering on water, seagrass, rocks, and small fish rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark water, turquoise light patches, seagrass, reef-like rocks, small fish, surface haze, and dense aquatic texture.
Film character: The footage has pronounced 8mm grain, low-light exposure shifts, soft edges, and handheld framing that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short aquatic insert, travel-memory cutaway, atmospheric transition, or nature detail within a 1950s vacation sequence.
Historical context: The clip reflects a period home-movie interest in leisure travel and underwater views, while the exact site within the New Orleans metadata is not visible in-frame.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific use should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm underwater footage, New Orleans vacation home movie, blue-green aquatic plants, small fish, and mid-century travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1958 New Orleans travel footage, then broader 1950s underwater vacation or aquatic nature material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm underwater vacation frame with dark blue-green water, glowing turquoise patches, and indistinct plant or rock forms. — Dark underwater frame with turquoise light and soft aquatic textures.

1958 8mm underwater scene showing bright blue-green light, surface haze, and reef-like aquatic texture without people or structures. — Blue-green underwater view with bright surface light and dense texture.

1958 8mm underwater vacation frame with seagrass, small fish, blue water above, and soft handheld film texture. — Seagrass bed with small fish moving through blue-green water.

1958 8mm underwater scene showing seagrass, small fish, and reef-like ground under a hazy blue water surface. — Small fish over seagrass and reef-like ground in blue-green water.

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