Florida USA-1952: Woman Swimming Underwater Acrobatics Backflip Clear Wet Blue

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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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Woman Swimming Underwater Acrobatics Backflip Clear Wet Blue — Clip Details

A woman performs graceful underwater acrobatics in a vintage 8mm film clip from 1952, captured in Florida. Shot in deep blue water, her streamlined form executes a backflip with fluid motion, surrounded by bubbles and faint light refractions. The grainy, cyan-tinted footage reflects the era's home movie aesthetic, with soft focus and natural movement. This rare archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century aquatic recreation, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 123331680

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 home-movie requests needing underwater swimming, aquatic recreation, or abstract blue pool footage for documentary inserts and period recreation sequences.
Period detail: The cyan 8mm look and metadata-supported 1952 Florida setting may show mid-century amateur filming of recreational underwater swimming rather than a staged production scene.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in an informal swimmer performing underwater turns for the camera, with the operator observing through water and soft refractions.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swimmer underwater, blue-green water, bubbles, rippled light, soft plantlike or poolside shapes, frame edges, and 8mm contact-sheet divisions.
Film character: The clip has dense blue exposure, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and fluctuating underwater contrast that give it a tactile home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief aquatic cutaway, dreamlike transition, memory beat, or abstract insert within a 1950s leisure or Florida sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually connects private home movies with mid-century leisure and swimming culture, while the frames themselves only confirm underwater recreation.
Research note: A person is visible but facial identity is unclear, so likeness review may still be needed alongside normal copyright and collection-rights checks.
Research search match: Search matches include 1952 Florida 8mm underwater swimmer, vintage home movie swimming acrobatics, blue pool footage, and woman underwater backflip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1952 Florida material, then broader vintage swimming, pool, water, and abstract home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 Florida 8mm frame showing a person swimming underwater through blue-green water with soft grain and refraction. — A swimmer moves underwater in a blue, grainy home-movie frame.

Blue-tinted 8mm underwater view of a swimmer suspended near the top of the frame, with hazy light and grain. — The swimmer appears suspended underwater against a soft blue background.

1952 Florida home-movie still with a swimmer low in the blue underwater frame, partly obscured by haze and refraction. — A figure turns low in the underwater frame amid blue haze.

Grainy 8mm frame of a swimmer mid-turn underwater in Florida, with blue-green water and soft cloudlike exposure above. — The swimmer rotates underwater beneath a bright, cloudy patch of water.

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