Florida USA-1959: People Swimming Around In What Seems To Be Either A Sea Or An Ocean

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Florida

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People Swimming Around In What Seems To Be Either A Sea... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Florida USA in 1959 shows a man wading and swimming in the ocean. The grainy, color-bleached film captures the man in swim trunks standing in shallow water, then moving further into the waves. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with film grain, slight color fading, and natural motion. The scene evokes a nostalgic summer vacation atmosphere, with the man enjoying the water under a bright sky. This authentic archival clip offers a glimpse into mid-century American beach life and leisure.

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: 121289744

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 1266 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: #1
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: florida
Date: 1959 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Florida, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1950s Florida beach and leisure requests needing brief home-movie footage of swimmers in shallow ocean water.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century vacation swimwear and casual beach recreation, supported by the 1959 Florida metadata and visible color 8mm home-movie style.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged vacation view of people wading, swimming, and moving through surf rather than performing for a formal camera setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include shallow surf, open ocean horizon, sandy shoreline, swimmers, swim trunks, small waves, soft sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a handheld 8mm texture with visible grain, faded color, soft focus, exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short beach insert, memory beat, seasonal transition, or cutaway for mid-century leisure and family travel sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects ordinary recreational beach activity in Florida as seen through a private home-movie camera, without identifiable landmarks or public events.
Research note: People and faces are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, privacy, and location clearance should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1959 Florida beach home movie, 1950s ocean swimming, vintage 8mm summer vacation, and mid-century coastal leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Florida 1959 beach material, then with other 1950s swimming, summer travel, or ocean recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Florida home-movie frame showing a man wading in shallow ocean surf with the horizon behind him. — A man stands in shallow surf near the beach as small waves reach the shore.

1959 Florida beach footage frame with a man standing farther out in the ocean, filmed from shore. — The swimmer has moved farther into the water, standing against the open ocean horizon.

1959 Florida home-movie frame showing swimmers low in the water amid pale surf and soft film grain. — Swimmers appear partly submerged as the surf washes over the shallow beach area.

1959 Florida beach frame with swimmers partly visible in shallow ocean water under faded 8mm color. — The final frame shows swimmers low in the surf, with details softened by water, distance, and film texture.

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