Dade County Florida-1955: A Boat Driving Past Homes On The Ocean During A Day

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

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A Boat Driving Past Homes On The Ocean During A Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1955, this vintage home movie captures a boat gliding past waterfront homes in Dade County, Florida. The view, framed by the camera's edge, shows a long white stucco house with a terracotta roof, surrounded by tall palm trees and a concrete seawall. The water in the foreground is calm, reflecting the overcast sky, while the film exhibits natural grain, slight blurriness, and the characteristic look of a mid-century home movie. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic Florida lifestyle from the 1950s.

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: 123385171

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 residential waterfront, boating, or coastal development cutaways in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The stucco waterfront homes, terracotta rooflines, palm trees, seawall, and 8mm color home-movie stock support a mid-1950s South Florida setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged passenger or visitor perspective from a moving boat, observing shoreline homes rather than posing a planned scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a concrete seawall, white waterfront houses, terracotta roofs, palm trees, hedges, overcast sky, and film-gate edges.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, gate shadow, and handheld framing give the scene the texture of original mid-century 8mm home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, waterfront transition, residential cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Florida or boating sequence.
Historical context: The footage shows mid-century leisure travel or shoreline observation in Dade County, with residential waterfront architecture seen from the water.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are evident, but visible exterior homes may require property-rights review separate from copyright licensing.
Research search match: Search phrases include 1950s Dade County waterfront homes, Florida 8mm boat view, Miami-area seawall houses, and vintage coastal residential footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then 1955 Dade County or Florida footage, then broader boating, waterfront housing, or coastal lifestyle material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 Dade County 8mm view of white waterfront homes, palms, and a seawall seen from a boat on calm water. — Waterfront homes and palms line the seawall as the boat passes offshore.

Boat-level 1955 Dade County view of a long white waterfront residence, palm trees, hedges, and a concrete seawall. — A long white waterfront residence appears beyond the seawall and palm trees.

1955 8mm frame of palms, hedges, a partial waterfront house, and a seawall along calm Dade County water. — Palms and a partial house slide past behind the low shoreline wall.

Dade County waterfront scene from 1955 showing palms, seawall, calm water, and a large residence partly visible at frame edge. — A palm-lined shoreline and large residence pass at the edge of the frame.

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