Dade County Florida-1955: Man and Woman Swimming in Ocean

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

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Man and Woman Swimming in Ocean — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a man and woman enjoying a sunny day swimming and playing in the ocean waves at Dade County, Florida. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows them wading and splashing in the water, with the woman in a dark swimsuit and the man shirtless. The natural, unposed moments convey a sense of carefree summer nostalgia, preserved in classic Super 8 film style with visible grain and soft focus.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123383898

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Florida home-movie requests needing casual beach swimming, ocean recreation, or summer leisure footage for documentary and editorial edits.
Period detail: The dark one-piece swimsuit, soft color 8mm texture, and unguarded beach activity support a mid-1950s home-movie reading without visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged moment of two adults wading, splashing, and playing in the surf from a family-camera viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two swimmers, rolling ocean water, white surf, a dark swimsuit, a shirtless man, soft focus, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has muted color, visible grain, slight softness, handheld framing, and dark frame edges characteristic of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short memory beat, beach-life cutaway, transition, or insert for midcentury leisure and Florida vacation sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects ordinary recreational beachgoing in Dade County, Florida, with adults relaxed in open ocean water and no visible commercial setting.
Research note: People are visible and faces are partly discernible, so likeness review may be needed in addition to copyright and source-rights checks.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s Florida beach home movie, 8mm ocean swimming, vintage Miami-area vacation footage, and adults playing in surf.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Florida beach material, then other Dade County 1955 clips, then broader 1950s ocean swimming and vacation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Dade County 8mm frame showing a shirtless man wading alone in muted blue-green ocean water. — A man wades in the surf as a wave breaks near the lower edge of the frame.

1955 Dade County home-movie frame with a woman in a dark swimsuit and a man in the surf. — Two adults face the camera while swimming and playing in the ocean.

1955 Dade County 8mm frame showing two adults low in the water as a small wave breaks nearby. — The swimmers bob in the surf, with white water splashing around the man.

1955 Dade County home-movie frame with two adults swimming toward the camera through gentle surf. — The pair swim in parallel through the waves, framed by dark film edges.

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