Dade County Florida-1955: People On A Beach Sunbathing On Towels And Playing In Water

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

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People On A Beach Sunbathing On Towels And Playing In Water — Clip Details

DADE COUNTY FLORIDA-1955: Two men wade in the ocean waves at a sun-drenched beach, their figures framed by the dark edges of an 8mm film projector. The scene shifts to a woman in a white top and blue shorts sunbathing on a patterned towel, her relaxed posture capturing a moment of leisure. Other beachgoers lounge in the background, with scattered seaweed on the sand. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures the relaxed atmosphere of a 1950s Florida beach day with authentic film grain and warm, faded colors.

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: 123384143

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 leisure, beach recreation, vacation-memory, and coastal lifestyle requests in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The swimwear, towel lounging, faded color, and 8mm home-movie framing support a mid-1950s beach scene in Dade County, Florida.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged beach behavior, with men wading in surf and a woman resting on sand while nearby beachgoers lounge in the background.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include ocean waves, two men in water, a sunbathing woman, beach towels, scattered seaweed, sandy shoreline, and other bathers.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm focus, warm faded color, visible grain, dark frame edges, and slight handheld instability that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a vacation insert, coastal recreation cutaway, warm memory beat, or transition within a sequence on midcentury Florida leisure.
Historical context: The scene shows casual beach recreation and sunbathing as a visible part of everyday leisure culture in a 1950s Florida home-movie record.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from depiction rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1955 Dade County Florida beach home movie, 1950s sunbathing footage, 8mm ocean waves, and vintage Florida vacation beach scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel beach or vacation shots, then with 1955 Dade County or Florida material, then with broader 1950s recreation and seaside leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two men stand in shallow ocean waves at a 1955 Dade County, Florida beach, framed by dark 8mm film edges. — Two men wade in the surf as small waves break along the beach.

A woman in a white top and blue shorts sunbathes on a sandy Dade County beach with towels and seaweed nearby. — A woman rests on the sand beside a towel while other beachgoers lounge in the background.

A sunbathing woman lies on a towel-strewn sandy beach in Dade County, Florida, with other bathers partly visible behind her. — The camera lingers on a woman sunbathing as people sit and lie farther up the beach.

The final frame shows a woman sunbathing on sand at the 1955 Dade County beach, with towels, seaweed, and other bathers visible. — A sunbather lies near a patterned towel as the beach scene continues in soft faded color.

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