Florida USA-1959: Footage Of Dolphin Swimming In Water Park

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

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Footage Of Dolphin Swimming In Water Park — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from 1959 captures a dolphin swimming in a water park, its sleek gray body gliding through green-tinted water. The grainy, low-light quality and visible film scratches reflect the era's home movie aesthetic. The dolphin's dorsal fin and smooth skin are highlighted as it moves through the water, with splashes and reflections adding motion. The scene evokes a nostalgic, archival feel, likely filmed at a Florida marine attraction during the late 1950s.

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: 121290238

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 archive requests needing brief 8mm home-movie footage of a dolphin in a marine park or water attraction setting.
Period detail: The clip may show a late-1950s visitor view of a captive dolphin, with no visible signage, people, or landmarks to identify the specific attraction.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of a visitor-shot observation, concentrating on the animal's movement through the pool rather than a staged performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a gray dolphin body, green pool water, reflected highlights, dark frame edges, surface ripples, and close cropped movement.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, low-light exposure, scratches, and slight registration shifts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife or marine-attraction insert, a memory beat, or a transition into captivity and tourism themes.
Historical context: The scene reflects mid-century leisure footage of marine wildlife viewing, while the frames themselves do not identify the park or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable property identifiers are visible, but copyright, location, animal-use context, and property permissions still need review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Florida 8mm dolphin footage, vintage marine park home movie, captive dolphin swimming, and green pool water cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Florida 1959 marine-attraction material, then broader vintage dolphin or water-park footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Florida 8mm frame showing a close view of a gray dolphin passing through green-tinted pool water. — A dolphin passes close to the camera in green pool water.

1959 Florida 8mm frame with a gray dolphin partly visible beside dark vertical framing and green water reflections. — The dolphin's side moves through a narrow, shadowed portion of the frame.

1959 Florida 8mm frame showing the dolphin's smooth gray body curving through green water with reflected light. — The dolphin curves through the pool as reflected light breaks across the water.

1959 Florida 8mm frame with the dolphin's head and upper body close to the camera in green-tinted water. — The dolphin comes near the edge of the frame in a tight pool close-up.

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