Florida USA-1959: A Dolphin Swimming in an Aquarium Pool

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

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A Dolphin Swimming in an Aquarium Pool — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1959 captures a dolphin swimming in an aquarium pool in Florida. The grainy, green-tinted underwater scenes show the dolphin gliding through the water, its smooth gray skin and eye visible in close-up. Bubbles rise to the surface as the animal moves gracefully, with the dark edges of the tank framing the shot. This authentic home movie footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of marine life in a mid-century aquarium setting.

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: 121290218

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 aquarium or marine-mammal inserts in documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing authentic 8mm visitor-shot footage.
Period detail: The green-tinted pool water, close aquarium framing, and 8mm home-movie texture may show a mid-century marine attraction setting in Florida.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the feel of a visitor filming through glass or along a tank edge, lingering on the dolphin as it passes close to the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dolphin, green pool water, bubbles, reflected highlights, tank or frame edges, and soft underwater close-ups.
Film character: The clip carries dense 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that preserve the physical texture of a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a marine-life cutaway, Florida travel-memory insert, aquarium transition, or quiet period detail between broader 1950s scenes.
Historical context: The clip visually places a dolphin in a mid-century aquarium pool context without showing visitors, signage, trainers, or identifiable facility details.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still assess copyright status and any aquarium-property context before publication.
Research search match: Searches for 1959 Florida dolphin aquarium footage, vintage 8mm marine mammal pool, or mid-century home movie underwater dolphin would match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Florida aquarium material, then broader vintage marine-life or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A dolphin passes near the camera in green-tinted aquarium water in 1959 Florida 8mm footage, with bubbles and surface glare visible. — Dolphin gliding through green aquarium water near the camera.

Close underwater view of a dolphin's head and smooth gray body beside a dark aquarium edge in 1959 Florida home-movie footage. — Close pass of the dolphin along the aquarium edge.

The dolphin turns close to the lens in green aquarium water, with its face, eye area, and body softly rendered by the 8mm scan. — Soft close-up of the dolphin turning through the pool.

A dolphin angles across the frame in green aquarium water, its pale gray body and head visible against bubbles and dark tank framing. — Dolphin angled across the aquarium pool near bubbles and reflected light.

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