Florida USA-1952: Two Women Swimming Underwater in Vintage 8mm Film

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Two Women Swimming Underwater in Vintage 8mm Film — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures two women swimming gracefully underwater in clear blue water. Wearing swimsuits and flippers, they glide through the water with fluid motion, their bodies silhouetted against the sunlit surface. Bubbles rise around them as they explore the aquatic environment, creating a serene and nostalgic underwater scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic 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: 123331927

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: Supports 1950s Florida archive requests needing brief underwater leisure, swimming, or home-movie vacation material for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The swimsuits, swim fins, 8mm color look, and underwater recreational filming may show mid-century leisure culture consistent with the supplied 1952 Florida metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie view of two women swimming underwater, gliding, diving, and turning through clear blue water rather than performing for a formal production.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two women in swimsuits, swim fins, blue underwater light, rising bubbles, rocky or planted aquatic background, and dark contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, soft focus, saturated blue-green color, and slight exposure variation that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, aquatic transition, vacation-memory beat, or visual cutaway for mid-century swimming and Florida leisure sequences.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for recreational underwater swimming and home-movie travel filming, without identifying the exact body of water or participants.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos, private property, or music are apparent, and copyright status should be assessed separately from appearance rights.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s Florida underwater swimming, 8mm women with swim fins, vintage home movie swimmers, and mid-century aquatic recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1952 Florida footage, then with vintage swimming, beach, vacation, and underwater home-movie themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 Florida 8mm frame of a woman swimming underwater in a swimsuit and fins, with blue-green water and aquatic background visible. — A swimmer glides underwater with arms extended and fins trailing behind her.

1952 Florida 8mm frame showing two women underwater in swimsuits, with one swimmer stretched forward above another swimmer below. — Two swimmers pass through clear blue water, one extended horizontally above the other.

1952 Florida 8mm frame of a woman curving downward underwater in a swimsuit and fins, surrounded by bright bubbles. — A swimmer bends into a downward dive with bubbles rising behind her.

1952 Florida 8mm frame showing a woman curling underwater near bubbles, with another swimmer partly visible beneath her. — A swimmer turns underwater beside a column of bubbles as another figure appears below.

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