Ocean City New Jersey USA-1968: Family and Friends Swimming and Relaxing on Lake Dock

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationOcean City, New Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 Ocean City New Jersey

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Family and Friends Swimming and Relaxing on Lake Dock — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Ocean City, New Jersey, 1968, capturing a serene lakeside scene. The clip opens with a wide view of a calm lake under a clear sky, framed by a dense treeline. A white floating dock appears, and the camera pans to reveal people relaxing on a wooden dock. Individuals in period swimwear are seen lounging, sitting, and preparing to swim, with a small boat nearby. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: vibrant yet faded colors, noticeable film grain, and natural light, evoking a nostalgic summer day of family recreation.

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: 121308563

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 1329 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1968-1970
Reel-level location note: pennsylvania, new jersey
Date: 1968 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: Ocean City, New Jersey, 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: Useful for 1960s home-movie requests needing lakeside family recreation, swimming, docks, and quiet summer leisure for documentary or memory-sequence use.
Period detail: The period is supported by 1968 metadata and visible clues such as swimwear, small leisure boats, wooden dock use, and the color 8mm home-movie look.
Home-movie behavior: The footage captures unstaged leisure as adults lounge, sit, stand, and prepare to swim from a dock while the camera observes from a family-home-movie distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake, wooded shoreline, white floating platform, wooden dock, adults in swimwear, a small boat, open sky, and dark contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The clip has saturated but faded 8mm color, soft focus, handheld framing, visible grain, exposure shifts, and contact-sheet edge marks that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short summer insert, lakeside transition, recreational cutaway, or quiet family-memory beat between broader vacation scenes.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual late-1960s waterside recreation, with adults using a dock and swimming area in a relaxed home-movie setting.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, privacy, and location permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 8mm home movie lake swimming, Ocean City New Jersey family recreation, vintage dock leisure, and 1960s summer footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1968 Ocean City material, then broader 1960s family swimming, boating, and lake recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Ocean City home-movie frame showing a calm lake, distant treeline, open sky, and dark film-strip borders. — A quiet wide view of the lake and wooded shore opens the short home-movie scene.

1968 Ocean City lake view with a white floating platform on the water and a wooded shoreline in the distance. — A white floating platform sits offshore against the tree-lined lake background.

1968 Ocean City home-movie frame with adults in swimwear lounging and standing on a wooden dock by the lake. — Adults gather on the dock, with one seated near the water and another standing by the edge.

1968 Ocean City dock scene with adults in swimwear relaxing near the water and a small boat alongside. — The final frame shows a relaxed dock scene with swimmers, lake water, and a small boat nearby.

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