Dade County Florida-1955: Swimming Boy In Waves

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationDade, Florida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Swimming Boy In Waves — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a young boy swimming in the ocean waves at Dade County, Florida. The grainy, slightly faded footage shows the boy wading and splashing in the water, with gentle surf rolling in behind him. The image is framed by dark borders, typical of Super 8 home movie projections, and features natural film artifacts like dust specks and light scratches. The muted color palette and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, mid-century American beach vacation.

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: 123383277

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 1573 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1955
Reel-level location note: florida
Date: 1955 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: Dade, 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 Florida beach-life requests needing brief home-movie ocean swimming footage for documentary, education, or memory-sequence use.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, and simple beach subject support a mid-1950s home-movie reading, though no landmarks or dated objects are visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged vacation moment as a distant swimmer wades and splashes in surf while the camera observes from shore.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lone swimmer, pale ocean water, small breaking waves, spray, soft horizonless surf, dust specks, frame edges, and contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The footage has muted color, visible grain, soft exposure, light scratches, dust, and slight handheld instability consistent with scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short beach cutaway, family-vacation insert, transitional memory beat, or atmospheric detail within a Florida or coastal-life sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual mid-century seaside recreation in Dade County, Florida, without enough visual detail to identify a specific beach or occasion.
Research note: A person is visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos, private property, or audible music are indicated, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1955 Dade County Florida 8mm beach swimming, vintage Florida ocean waves, mid-century home movie surf, and archival beach vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Dade County or 1955 Florida material, then broader 1950s beach, swimming, vacation, and ocean-surf footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Distant swimmer wading in Dade County, Florida surf in 1955 8mm home-movie footage, with muted color and visible film wear. — A distant swimmer moves through soft surf as small waves break around them.

A distant swimmer appears in muted 1955 Dade County, Florida surf, framed by 8mm film borders and light surface wear. — The swimmer faces away from camera while a small splash rises in the surrounding water.

A lone swimmer remains partly surrounded by gentle Dade County, Florida waves in soft, grainy 1955 8mm footage. — The swimmer drifts lower in the frame as pale waves and foam move through the shot.

A distant swimmer in 1955 Dade County, Florida ocean water appears beside a small splash in grainy 8mm home-movie footage. — A small burst of foam appears beside the swimmer in the gently moving surf.

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