Ocean City New Jersey USA-1968: Swimming Monkey Trying To Get To The 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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Swimming Monkey Trying To Get To The Dock — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Ocean City, New Jersey, 1968, showing a monkey swimming in dark blue water toward a wooden dock. The animal splashes vigorously, creating ripples as it moves. A person lies on the dock in the background, partially visible. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: rich color saturation, noticeable grain, and a distinct blue tint. The shot is static, capturing a candid moment of wildlife interaction in a recreational 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: 121308588

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. home-movie requests needing brief animal, waterfront, or unusual vacation footage for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The saturated blue water, soft 8mm texture, and simple dock setting support a late-1960s recreational home-movie context in Ocean City, New Jersey.
Home-movie behavior: The static framing records an unstaged moment as a swimming monkey struggles toward a dock while a person remains partly visible above the waterline.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark rippling water, a small swimming monkey, splash trails, a wooden dock, ladder rails, a reclining person, and heavy film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, deep blue color bias, soft focus, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical texture of a scanned home movie.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short cutaway, oddity insert, waterfront transition, or memory beat within archival sequences about animals, vacations, or boardwalk-era leisure.
Historical context: The footage shows a recreational waterfront scene where an animal is filmed close to a dock, suggesting informal visitor observation rather than staged studio material.
Research note: People are partly visible, so likeness review may be needed, and copyright, animal-use context, and any location permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 Ocean City New Jersey 8mm home movie, swimming monkey footage, vintage dock animal clip, and 1960s waterfront vacation film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Ocean City 1968 waterfront material, then broader 1960s animal or vacation home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Ocean City home-movie frame showing a monkey swimming toward a dock as a person lies partly visible on the platform. — A monkey moves through the water toward the dock while a person is partly visible above.

Ocean City, New Jersey 1968 frame with a small monkey swimming in blue water near a dock and partially seen person. — The monkey continues across the rippling water with the dock in the background.

1968 8mm frame from Ocean City showing the monkey splashing near the dock ladder in strongly tinted blue water. — The monkey splashes as it nears the dock ladder and platform edge.

Ocean City 1968 home-movie frame showing the monkey close to the dock below a partially visible person on the platform. — The animal reaches the area below the dock as the home-movie camera holds steady.

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