Ocean City New Jersey USA-1968: Swimming Alone In Water

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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 Alone In Water — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1968 in Ocean City, New Jersey, showing a person sunbathing on a wooden dock while another swims in the calm water below. The scene captures a quiet summer day with natural light reflecting off the rippling blue water. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a soft focus typical of 1960s home movies. The composition includes a metal ladder leading into the water, emphasizing a relaxed, nostalgic atmosphere of mid-century American leisure.

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: 121308711

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: Useful for 1960s U.S. coastal leisure edits needing quiet home-movie footage of swimming, sunbathing, and dockside summer recreation.
Period detail: The 8mm look, simple floating dock, metal ladder, and swimwear may show late-1960s vacation or waterfront leisure in Ocean City, New Jersey.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged moment of one person resting on a dock while another swims nearby in calm water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling blue water, a floating wooden dock, a metal swim ladder, a sunbather, a swimmer, soft reflections, and dark film borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, slight color shift, uneven exposure, and contact-print framing that support its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or transition for summer, solitude, family vacation, or mid-century recreation sequences.
Historical context: The scene shows informal waterfront leisure rather than a staged attraction, giving social context for everyday vacation behavior in the late 1960s.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or clear private property are visible, and copyright status remains separate from appearance releases.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1968 Ocean City New Jersey 8mm swimming footage, vintage dock swimming, home movie sunbathing, and 1960s summer water recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel waterfront material, then other 1968 Ocean City footage, then broader 1960s swimming, beach, dock, and summer leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 Ocean City home-movie frame showing a person sunbathing on a floating dock beside calm blue water and a metal ladder. — A sunbather rests on a floating dock above calm water.

1968 Ocean City frame with a sunbather on a floating dock and a ladder descending into still, rippling water. — The dock and ladder sit quietly over rippling water.

1968 Ocean City home-movie frame showing a dockside sunbather and ladder above dark blue rippling water. — A quiet dockside moment is framed across the water.

1968 Ocean City frame with a swimmer near the dock ladder and a sunbather stretched out on the floating dock. — A swimmer appears at the ladder below the sunbather.

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