Ocean City New Jersey USA-1968: Swimming In A Body Of Water Doing The Front Stroke

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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 In A Body Of Water Doing The Front Stroke — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Ocean City, New Jersey, 1968, showing a person swimming in a body of water using the front stroke. The scene is captured through a dark frame, with a row of white and yellow buoys visible in the foreground. The water has a distinct blue-purple tint, characteristic of aged film stock, with gentle ripples and a dock structure in the background. The swimmer appears intermittently, creating splashes as they move through the water. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, authentic 1960s home movie aesthetic.

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: 121308616

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. coastal leisure sequences needing authentic home-movie swimming footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial context.
Period detail: The 8mm color look, buoy line, swim area, and metadata-supported 1968 Ocean City setting place the scene in late-1960s recreational waterfront life.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged home-movie view of swimmers moving through open water, filmed from behind a dark foreground frame rather than from a controlled production setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue-purple water, swimmers, white and yellow buoys, a dock or pier structure, dark vertical foreground bars, ripples, splashes, and aged film grain.
Film character: The clip carries a period 8mm texture with saturated blue cast, soft focus, grain, motion blur, and uneven exposure typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short summer-memory insert, waterfront cutaway, transition into recreation material, or atmospheric beat within a 1960s family sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects informal public or resort-area swimming culture, with people using a marked swim area rather than a staged pool or athletic event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright, location, and privacy considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 Ocean City New Jersey 8mm swimming, vintage home movie swimmer in marked water, and 1960s waterfront recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1968 Ocean City material, then broader 1960s beach, swimming, and waterfront recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Ocean City home-movie frame showing a buoy-marked swim area seen through dark foreground bars, with rippled blue-purple water. — A marked swimming area is seen through dark foreground framing, with buoys stretching across the water.

1968 Ocean City frame with a distant person in the water beyond a buoy line, partly obscured by dark foreground framing. — A distant swimmer appears beyond the buoy line in the marked water area.

Ocean City 1968 home-movie frame showing a swimmer partly submerged in rippled water below a row of buoys. — A swimmer moves through the lower part of the frame while buoys mark the swim area above.

1968 Ocean City frame with a swimmer doing a front-stroke movement in blue-purple water near the buoy-marked area. — A swimmer crosses the frame in rippled water, with the buoy line visible nearby.

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