Florida Everglades USA-1975: Empty Dock and White Building

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationEverglades, Florida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Empty Dock and White Building — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a quiet, empty dock extending into calm blue water. The footage shows a white building with a window and railings at the dock's edge, with a distant view of the horizon. The scene has a distinct blue color cast and visible film grain, scratches, and wear, characteristic of Super 8 home movie footage. The camera pans slowly across the water and dock structure, evoking a sense of stillness and nostalgia. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects about mid-20th century American life.

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: 123237507

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 1975 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: Everglades, Florida, 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 1970s Florida Everglades home-movie material for editors needing a quiet waterfront dock cutaway or establishing insert.
Period detail: The simple dock structure, white railings, and saturated 8mm color may show a mid-1970s visitor view of a waterside stop in the Everglades area.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the empty dock and open water rather than on posed activity.
What appears in frame: Visible details include calm blue water, a low horizon, a white dockside structure, railings, deck edges, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a blue color cast, soft focus, visible grain, scratches, gate edges, and handheld framing typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet transition, waterway cutaway, travel-memory beat, or atmospheric insert between busier Everglades scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents a modest waterside facility and open water from a tourist or family-film viewpoint, without visible crowds or commercial signage.
Research note: No people or logos are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location, and any property permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1970s Florida Everglades 8mm dock, empty waterside station, blue water home movie, and vintage travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1975 Florida Everglades material, then broader quiet waterfront or vintage travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 Florida Everglades home-movie frame showing a white dockside structure beside calm blue water and a distant horizon. — A white dockside structure sits beside calm blue water in a soft, blue-tinted 8mm frame.

1975 Florida Everglades frame with open blue water, a low horizon, and part of a dock or railing at the right edge. — The camera holds on open water with a small section of dock and railing at the edge.

1975 Florida Everglades home-movie frame showing a dock surface and low wall against calm blue water. — A quiet dock surface and low wall fill the foreground, with still water beyond.

1975 Florida Everglades frame showing a white dockside building with railings and a dark shadowed area below. — A white rail-lined dockside building appears in soft focus above a dark lower area.

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