Ocean City New Jersey USA-1968: Swimmer Moves Across Water with Yellow Buoy Visible

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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 Moves Across Water with Yellow Buoy Visible — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Ocean City, New Jersey, 1968, showing a swimmer moving across a body of water under a deep blue tint. The swimmer, a human figure, creates ripples and splashes as they move through the water, with a yellow buoy visible in the foreground. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color distortion, and a dark border typical of 1960s home movies. The scene captures a moment of recreation, with the swimmer's progress visible across the water's surface.

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: 121308623

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 documentary or educational requests needing 1960s 8mm home-movie footage of informal swimming or waterfront recreation in Ocean City, New Jersey.
Period detail: The deep blue color shift, rounded frame edges, visible grain, and simple buoy line may show late-1960s amateur 8mm filming conditions.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged swimmer moving across open water while the camera observes from a fixed shoreline or dockside position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swimmer, rippling blue water, white float line, yellow buoy, dark frame borders, soft focus, and film dust marks.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, strong blue color cast, low-light softness, slight gate edges, and intermittent specks that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief recreation insert, waterfront transition, summer-memory cutaway, or atmospheric beat within a personal-history sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual outdoor swimming or water recreation, with no visible landmark or event detail beyond the supplied Ocean City, New Jersey metadata.
Research note: A person is visible but not clearly identifiable; copyright, likeness, and any location-use concerns should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1968 Ocean City New Jersey 8mm swimming, vintage home movie swimmer in water, and 1960s buoy line recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel waterfront material, then other Ocean City 1968 clips, then broader 1960s home-movie swimming or summer recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Ocean City home-movie frame showing a distant swimmer in blue-tinted water behind a white float line and yellow buoy. — A swimmer moves across the water behind a float line, with a yellow buoy near the foreground.

1968 Ocean City frame with a swimmer partly visible in blue water, a float line, and a yellow buoy near the foreground. — The swimmer appears farther across the water as the buoy line runs across the lower frame.

Blue-tinted 8mm frame from Ocean City showing a swimmer low in the frame with ripples spreading across the water. — The swimmer continues through the water, softened by grain, tint, and distance.

1968 Ocean City home-movie frame showing a swimmer near center-right, blue water, and white floats along the lower edge. — The swimmer reaches the right side of the view, with the float line still visible below.

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