Dade County Florida-1955: Elderly Man Smiling And Swimming In Ocean Waves

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

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Elderly Man Smiling And Swimming In Ocean Waves — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures an elderly man at the beach in Dade County, Florida. He stands smiling in the wavy ocean water, his face lit with joy as he poses for the camera. The footage then shows him swimming further into the surf, his head visible above the rolling waves. The grainy, color-bleached quality of the Super 8 film evokes a strong sense of nostalgia, with natural lighting and authentic movement. This archival clip offers a candid glimpse into mid-century American beach life and personal memories.

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: 123384066

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Dade County beach home-movie footage for productions needing an intimate elder swimming, surf, or mid-century leisure insert.
Period detail: The 8mm color home-movie look and simple beach swimwear support a mid-1950s setting, with no visible landmark confirming a more specific place.
Home-movie behavior: An elderly man smiles directly toward the camera before the clip shifts to a swimmer farther out in the waves, giving the scene a personal family-film quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an elderly man in surf, rolling ocean waves, a distant swimmer, pale sky, horizon line, beach-water color shifts, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip shows soft 8mm grain, mild color fading, handheld framing, and exposure variation that read as authentic physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a memory beat, beach-life cutaway, aging-and-leisure insert, or transition from posed family footage to open-water swimming.
Historical context: The footage documents casual mid-century seaside recreation in Florida through a private camera perspective rather than a public-event record.
Research note: Faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, privacy, and any release status should be assessed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s Florida beach home movie, elderly man swimming ocean waves, Dade County surf footage, and vintage 8mm seaside leisure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1955 Dade County beach material, then broader 1950s family swimming or Florida vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1955 Dade County beach footage, an elderly shirtless man stands in shallow ocean waves and looks toward the camera. — Elderly man poses in shallow surf with rolling water behind him.

An elderly man smiles toward the home-movie camera while standing in choppy ocean water in Dade County, Florida. — Smiling man stands close to the camera in the ocean waves.

A swimmer appears farther from the camera, with only head and shoulders visible among gray-green ocean waves. — Distant swimmer moves through the surf as waves fill the frame.

A distant swimmer remains visible above the rolling surf, framed by open water and a low horizon in the 1955 beach clip. — Swimmer's head rises above the rolling ocean water near the end of the clip.

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