Florida USA-1952: Female Scuba Diver Underwater

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Female Scuba Diver Underwater — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a female scuba diver exploring the ocean depths off the coast of Florida. The diver, wearing a light-colored wetsuit and flippers, glides through the blue water, surrounded by coral and small fish. Bubbles rise from her gear as she moves gracefully over the reef. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, offering a nostalgic glimpse into early recreational diving. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123332071

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: 1950s Florida home-movie underwater footage suited to documentary inserts on early recreational diving, ocean leisure, or archival travel memories.
Period detail: The light-colored diving outfit, long fins, and simple underwater filming may show mid-century recreational scuba practice, supported by the 1952 8mm metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a home-movie observer following a lone diver as she moves through blue water above reef and sea grass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a female diver, long fins, blue-green water, reef formations, sea grass, small fish, film gate edges, and contact-sheet frame divisions.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through soft focus, blue-green color shift, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld underwater framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, or transition for mid-century Florida travel, ocean recreation, or diving history sequences.
Historical context: The frames show a woman scuba diving over reef habitat, offering visual context for leisure diving and underwater home-movie documentation in the early 1950s.
Research note: A visible person appears in the footage, so likeness and contextual use should be reviewed separately from any film copyright or archive license questions.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s Florida 8mm scuba diver, female diver underwater home movie, vintage reef footage, and early recreational diving clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then with Florida 1952 footage, and then with broader underwater, reef, scuba, and mid-century travel themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 Florida 8mm frame showing a female scuba diver moving through blue-green water above reef and sea grass. — A diver in light gear swims over an underwater reef area.

1952 Florida 8mm frame with a distant female diver crossing a blue underwater scene near reef formations. — The diver appears farther from the camera in blue water near reef shapes.

1952 Florida 8mm frame showing the diver viewed from above as she passes over reef patches and sea grass. — The diver moves through a soft, blue-green underwater view.

1952 Florida 8mm frame showing a female diver near reef and darker underwater formations at the end of the clip. — The diver turns near reef structure in the final underwater frame.

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