Ocean City New Jersey USA-1968: Swimmer in Water with Buoys

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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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Swimmer in Water with Buoys — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Ocean City, New Jersey, 1968, showing a person swimming in a calm body of water, likely a lake or bay. The swimmer moves through the water, creating ripples and splashes, viewed from a distance across a floating line of white and yellow buoys. The scene is captured with a distinct blue color cast typical of 1960s film stock, featuring visible grain, slight motion blur, and dark borders characteristic of Super 8 home movies. The overall mood is nostalgic and serene, evoking a classic summer day of 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: 121308584

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s U.S. summer recreation sequences needing home-movie footage of swimming in a calm coastal or bayside water setting.
Period detail: The 8mm color image, buoy line, simple dock edge and distant swimmer support a late-1960s leisure setting without showing a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual, distant observation of one person swimming, recorded as an unstaged family or vacation moment from shore.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swimmer, blue water, small splashes, a floating buoy line, yellow marker buoys, a dock edge, dark film borders and light vegetation.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, blue color cast, soft focus, motion blur and gate borders that read as original home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet cutaway, summer memory insert, recreation transition or establishing beat for waterfront leisure.
Historical context: The footage reflects everyday outdoor recreation in Ocean City, New Jersey, with the swimmer separated from the camera by buoys and open water.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so likeness review may still apply even though no logos, music or clear private property are evident in the frames.
Research search match: Researchers may find it under 1968 8mm home movie swimming, Ocean City New Jersey water recreation, buoy line swimmer, or vintage summer footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1968 Ocean City scenes, then broader vintage swimming, beach, bay or summer recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Ocean City home-movie frame with a distant swimmer crossing calm blue water beyond white buoys and a yellow marker. — A swimmer moves across the water behind a line of floating buoys.

Distant swimmer in 1968 Ocean City footage, with a white and yellow buoy line crossing the foreground water. — The swimmer appears farther back in the water, with buoys crossing the foreground.

1968 Ocean City frame showing a distant person swimming across calm water, with a buoy line low in the foreground. — A swimmer crosses the open water as ripples spread behind them.

Distant swimmer in Ocean City, New Jersey, visible in blue water near a dock edge in 1968 8mm home-movie footage. — The swimmer continues near a dock edge, leaving a small splash and wake.

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