Florida Everglades USA-1975: A School Of Fish Swimming Together Over A Coral Bed

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationFlorida Everglades, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A School Of Fish Swimming Together Over A Coral Bed — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a school of fish swimming over a coral bed in the Florida Everglades. The footage features a distinctive blue-green color cast, likely from underwater lighting or film processing, with visible grain and slight motion blur typical of Super 8 home movies. Silhouetted fish glide through the water, their forms contrasting against the textured coral reef. The scene evokes a sense of underwater exploration and nostalgic Americana, offering authentic archival footage of marine life from the mid-1970s.

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: 123238176

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: Florida Everglades, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm underwater wildlife footage for documentary, museum, education, or period travel sequences needing marine-life atmosphere from a Florida Everglades trip.
Period detail: The frames may show 1975 home-movie underwater filming, with blue-green color response, soft exposure, and silhouetted fish forms consistent with small-gauge travel footage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, watching fish drift through frame rather than presenting a controlled wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue-green water, dark fish silhouettes, coral or reef-like texture, soft grain, frame-edge shadows, and uneven exposure across the scan.
Film character: The 8mm image has pronounced grain, color cast, soft focus, mild motion blur, and handheld framing that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief underwater cutaway, travel-memory insert, environmental transition, or atmospheric beat within a 1970s Florida sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers home-movie evidence of recreational underwater observation, but the frames alone do not identify a specific species, dive site, or waterway.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, though copyright and any location-specific use questions should still be reviewed before publication.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1975 8mm underwater fish, Florida Everglades home movie marine life, blue-green Super 8 reef footage, and archival school of fish.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1975 Florida Everglades material, then with other archival underwater wildlife or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 Florida Everglades home-movie frame showing a mostly blue underwater view with faint texture, grain, and dark scan edges. — A blue-green underwater view opens the clip with soft grain and little distinct marine detail.

1975 Florida Everglades underwater frame with a dark fish silhouette moving across blue-green coral or reef-like texture. — A single dark fish shape crosses the blue-green underwater field.

1975 Florida Everglades home-movie frame showing bright coral or reef-like texture and dark fish silhouettes in blue water. — Bright underwater texture fills the frame as dark fish shapes pass near the lower edge.

1975 Florida Everglades underwater frame with two dark fish silhouettes beside glowing blue-green reef-like texture. — Two fish silhouettes appear against a soft blue-green underwater background.

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