Florida USA-1952: Tourists Swimming at Wachee Springs

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Tourists Swimming at Wachee Springs — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched scene at a popular Florida spring. The footage opens with a bright yellow 'WACHEE' sign, establishing the location. The view shifts underwater, revealing swimmers in period-appropriate swimwear gliding through the clear blue water. The grainy, blue-tinted film stock and natural lighting evoke a nostalgic, mid-century American vacation atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic footage of 1950s leisure and tourism.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123331618

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1570 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: dr. mc petersen
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: florida,washington dc,canada
Date: 1952 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: Florida, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Florida tourism, roadside attraction, and leisure sequences needing authentic 8mm home-movie evidence of visitors at a spring.
Period detail: The yellow WACHEE sign and swimwear glimpsed underwater support a mid-century Florida visitor setting, with the 1952 date supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, moving from a location sign to handheld underwater views of swimmers passing through blue spring water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a cropped WACHEE sign, roadside sky and trees, blue underwater views, swimmers, legs, bubbles, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, blue underwater color shift, and slight frame-edge intrusion typical of home-movie capture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, travel-memory transition, or short cutaway between Florida vacation and swimming scenes.
Historical context: The footage reflects recreational spring tourism and casual vacation filming in postwar Florida without proving any organized event or performance.
Research note: People and a visible sign require likeness and trademark or location-identification review separate from any copyright assessment of the film scan.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1952 Florida 8mm home movie, Weeki Wachee or Wachee Springs sign, underwater swimmers, and vintage spring tourism footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Florida travel footage, then same location and year, then broader 1950s swimming, springs, and roadside tourism material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 Florida home-movie frame showing a cropped yellow WACHEE sign with sky, trees, and roadside details below. — A bright yellow WACHEE sign establishes the Florida spring attraction setting.

Blue-tinted underwater 8mm frame from the Florida spring, with faint swimmer forms visible behind dark frame borders. — The view shifts underwater, where swimmer shapes appear through blue spring water.

1952 Florida underwater home-movie frame showing swimmers partly visible in blue water with soft focus and grain. — Swimmers move through the spring water, seen through a blue-tinted 8mm frame.

Blue underwater 8mm frame showing several faint swimmers or divers in the Florida spring near dark film borders. — Multiple swimmer forms appear in the blue water near the end of the clip.

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