Florida USA-1952: Women Swimming Deep Underwater with Flippers

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Women Swimming Deep Underwater with Flippers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures two women swimming deep underwater, wearing flippers and light-colored swimwear. The footage, filmed in Florida, USA, shows them gliding through blue-tinted water with a rocky or coral-like seabed visible below. The image quality reflects classic 8mm film with grain, color degradation, and slight motion blur, conveying a nostalgic, archival feel. The women move slowly, their forms partially obscured by the water's depth and the film's age. This rare underwater home movie offers a glimpse into mid-century recreational diving and personal adventure.

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: 123331644

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 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 archival requests about Florida leisure, underwater recreation, amateur diving, or mid-century home-movie travel footage.
Period detail: The clip may show early recreational swim fins and light swimwear, with the 1952 date and Florida location supported by supplied metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged underwater view of swimmers moving slowly through open water, recorded from a personal home-movie perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue underwater space, two distant swimmers, swim fins, pale swimwear, rocky or coral-like seabed, soft focus, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, blue color shift, soft underwater contrast, motion blur, and visible reel-frame boundaries that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, memory beat, or transitional cutaway for mid-century travel, swimming, diving, or personal adventure sequences.
Historical context: The footage offers a cautious glimpse of postwar-era leisure and recreational swimming without enough visual detail to identify a specific site or event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright status is separate from subject clearance.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1950s Florida underwater home movie, 8mm women swimming with fins, vintage recreational diving, and blue water family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1952 Florida water footage, and then with broader vintage swimming or amateur diving material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 Florida 8mm underwater frame showing two distant swimmers with fins in blue water over a pale, rocky or coral-like seabed. — Two distant swimmers glide through blue underwater footage, with pale seabed forms below.

1952 Florida home-movie frame with faint swimmers and fins visible through blue underwater haze over uneven seabed textures. — Swimmers appear faintly through the water, with fin shapes and seabed texture visible.

1952 Florida 8mm frame showing two underwater swimmers with fins, softened by water depth, grain, and blue color shift. — Two swimmers pass through the frame, their bodies softened by underwater haze and 8mm grain.

1952 Florida underwater home-movie frame with a distant swimmer in pale swimwear near rocky or coral-like seabed forms. — A distant swimmer moves through deeper blue water near darker underwater formations.

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