Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: Boy and Man Play in Ocean Waves

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Year1947
Decade1940s
LocationMiddletown, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1947 Middletown

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Boy and Man Play in Ocean Waves — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures two people enjoying a day at the seaside in Middletown, Pennsylvania. A young boy in a white swim cap and a man play in the waves, riding a surfboard as white-capped waves crash around them. The footage has a distinct purple color cast and grainy texture typical of Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic, sun-drenched summer memory. The camera remains steady, focusing on their playful interaction with the ocean.

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: 123221422

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1947 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Middletown, Pennsylvania, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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 requests needing 1940s home-movie beach or surf play footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial memory sequences.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century swimwear, a simple surfboard or bodyboard, and beach recreation, with the supplied metadata placing it in 1947.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged interaction of swimmers playing in rough surf while the camera watches from a steady shore-side position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two swimmers, a white swim cap, a dark board, breaking waves, open water, sea foam, and a divided contact-sheet frame edge.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and a purple-blue color shift that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, seaside memory beat, recreation insert, or transition into a sequence about leisure and summer travel.
Historical context: The footage shows casual beach recreation and wave play without enough visible context to confirm a specific shoreline, event, or public setting beyond the supplied location metadata.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed separately from copyright or source-film licensing checks.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s 8mm beach footage, vintage home movie swimmers, surf play in waves, seaside recreation, and archival family travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Middletown or Pennsylvania material from the same year, then with broader vintage beach and wave-play footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1947 8mm home-movie frame of two swimmers playing in rough surf, one in a white swim cap, with waves breaking around them. — Two swimmers face the surf as a wave breaks across the frame.

1947 8mm frame of two people near a dark surfboard or bodyboard in choppy seaside water, with faces partially visible. — The swimmers steady themselves beside a board in the moving water.

1947 8mm home-movie frame of a swimmer in a white cap standing in shallow waves beside a dark board. — A capped swimmer handles a board in the shallower wash of the surf.

1947 8mm frame of a swimmer with a dark board amid breaking white water, filmed from a shore-side viewpoint. — A swimmer rides through foamy water while holding the board.

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