Florida USA-1959: Dog Surfing on Pool Board and Dolphin Swimming

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

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Dog Surfing on Pool Board and Dolphin Swimming — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Florida USA in 1959 captures a playful dog performing tricks on a surfboard in a backyard pool. The grainy, color-bleached film shows the dog balancing on a white board as it splashes through green-tinted water, with lush tropical foliage visible along the pool edge. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—soft focus, film grain, and natural lighting—creating a nostalgic, candid moment of pet entertainment. A brief glimpse of a dolphin swimming underwater adds an unexpected wildlife element to this charming domestic scene.

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: 121290126

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 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Florida home-movie requests needing brief animal-entertainment footage, pet tricks, poolside leisure, or an unexpected dolphin cutaway.
Period detail: The footage may show late-1950s domestic leisure through the color 8mm stock, pool setting, tropical planting, and informal animal-performance subject.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a spectator filming a novelty pet act at close range, with attention shifting from the dog on the board to a dolphin in a pool setting.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green pool water, a white floating board, a small dog balancing upright, pool coping, tropical foliage, a red-and-white ring shape, and a dolphin near signage.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, color fading, slight blur, and contact-frame borders give the scan a candid 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a whimsical insert, a Florida leisure cutaway, an animal-training beat, or a light transition within mid-century home-movie sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects informal filmed leisure and animal entertainment in a pool environment, without enough visible evidence to identify a specific venue or owner.
Research note: No people are visible, but researchers should review copyright status and any venue or animal-performance context separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Search matches include 1959 Florida 8mm dog surfing, vintage pet tricks in pool, mid-century animal entertainment, home movie dolphin swimming, and backyard pool footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Florida pool or animal scenes, then other 1959 Florida home movies, then broader vintage pet tricks or dolphin footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Florida 8mm frame showing green-tinted pool water, pale coping, and tropical planting at the edge. — Pool water and planted edge before the animal trick comes into clearer view.

1959 Florida home-movie frame of a small dog balancing on a white floating board in green pool water. — A small dog balances upright on a white board in the pool.

1959 Florida 8mm frame showing a dog upright on a white board, with pool water, coping, foliage, and a red-and-white ring shape nearby. — The dog stands on the floating board near the pool edge.

1959 Florida home-movie frame showing a dolphin near the pool wall, with partial background lettering and green water below. — A dolphin passes near the pool wall in a brief cutaway.

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