Ocean City New Jersey USA-1968: Man Swimming Near Floating 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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Man Swimming Near Floating Dock — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Ocean City, New Jersey, 1968, showing a man swimming vigorously in a pool with a floating dock. The swimmer creates splashes as he moves through the water, with a ladder and dock visible in the background. The scene is captured in classic Super 8 film style with rich, saturated blue tones and natural film grain, evoking a nostalgic summer memory. The clip captures a candid moment of recreation and leisure from the late 1960s.

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: 121308698

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: 1960s 8mm leisure footage for productions needing a brief recreation insert, summer memory beat, or home-movie view of swimming near a floating dock.
Period detail: The scene may show late-1960s pool or marina recreation, with a simple floating dock, metal ladder, swimwear, and saturated 8mm color supporting the stated 1968 home-movie date.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged recreational moment as a swimmer moves quickly through the water toward a person resting on the dock.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue rippled water, a floating dock, metal ladder, swimmer, splashes, dock edge, and a line of small floats in the foreground.
Film character: The 8mm scan has rich blue color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame borders that emphasize its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short insert, cutaway, transition, or memory beat for summer recreation, vacation, swimming, or waterfront leisure sequences.
Historical context: The footage reflects casual outdoor leisure and home-movie documentation in Ocean City, New Jersey, without making claims about a specific venue or event.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, audible music, children, or clear private-property identifiers are evident from the supplied metadata and frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1968 Ocean City New Jersey home movie swimming, 8mm floating dock recreation, vintage pool swimmer, and 1960s summer leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Ocean City or New Jersey 1968 material, then broader 1960s swimming, dock, vacation, or summer recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Ocean City home-movie frame showing a swimmer in rippled blue water near a floating dock and metal ladder. — A swimmer moves through the water near the dock as floats line the foreground.

Ocean City, New Jersey 1968 frame with a swimmer splashing near the ladder of a floating dock. — The swimmer creates a splash beside the dock ladder in the blue water.

1968 home-movie frame showing a person lying on a floating dock as a swimmer surfaces near the ladder. — A person rests on the dock while the swimmer reaches the ladder area below.

Ocean City 1968 frame with a person stretched on a floating dock above rippled blue water and a metal ladder. — The person remains on the floating dock as the water settles below the ladder.

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