Florida USA-1952: A Woman Sucks Air From A Hose And Swims With Fish Above A

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Woman Sucks Air From A Hose And Swims With Fish Above A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a woman snorkeling underwater in Florida. She wears a classic diving mask and swims with fins, exhaling bubbles as she explores the clear blue water. The footage shows her moving gracefully over a rocky reef with aquatic plants, holding a hose for air. The grainy, color-bleached aesthetic reflects the era's home movie style, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century underwater recreation.

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: 123332056

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 requests needing 1950s Florida home-movie footage of recreational underwater swimming, snorkeling, or early leisure diving for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits.
Period detail: The diving mask, fins, handheld 8mm color, and simple air hose may show mid-century recreational underwater activity rather than organized professional diving.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in an unstaged swimmer exploring underwater, breathing through a hose and moving among fish as a home-movie camera observes from nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a diving mask, swim fins, an air hose, bubbles, fish, blue water, rocky reef texture, and aquatic plants.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, blue-green color shift, slight blur, and contact-print framing that give the underwater scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, memory beat, transition, or cutaway for mid-century Florida recreation, snorkeling, tourism, or family travel sequences.
Historical context: The clip visually suggests leisure exploration of Florida waters in the early 1950s, showing casual underwater recreation rather than a clearly identifiable site or event.
Research note: A visible adult swimmer may require likeness review, while no logos, private property, children, or audible music are indicated; copyright and personality rights should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Search phrases include 1952 Florida 8mm snorkeling, vintage woman underwater with fish, mid-century home movie diving mask, and hose-assisted swimming footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Florida 1952 scenes, then broader clips of vintage snorkeling, reefs, fish, and mid-century water recreation.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 Florida 8mm frame showing an underwater reef area with a visible hose line and blue-green home-movie color cast. — A hose line crosses an underwater reef area in blue-green water.

A woman in 1952 Florida underwater footage wears a diving mask and holds an air hose near rocky reef texture and aquatic plants. — A masked swimmer holds an air hose while kneeling or hovering underwater.

A masked adult woman in Florida 8mm footage holds an air hose underwater, with bubbles rising against a rocky blue-green background. — The swimmer breathes from or near the hose as bubbles rise in the water.

1952 Florida home-movie frame of a woman with fins swimming underwater near small fish, with an air hose trailing below her. — A finned swimmer moves horizontally through blue water as small fish pass nearby.

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