Miami Florida USA-1960: Man Swimming In Backyard Pool

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationMiami, Florida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Miami Florida

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Man Swimming In Backyard Pool — Clip Details

MIAMI FLORIDA USA-1960: A man in white shorts enjoys a swim in a sun-drenched backyard pool, captured on vintage 8mm film. He holds the metal ladder, moving through the turquoise water with a relaxed, nostalgic ease. The scene features classic 1960s home movie aesthetics—soft focus, warm color grading, and film grain—evoking a sense of leisure and summer recreation. A dark bag rests on the tiled edge, adding to the authentic, candid feel of this archival footage.

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: 123627417

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 1121 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: trip to florida,nassau,browns hotel,spring,woodpecker build nest,tree,catfish caught river,flowers,tulip
Reel-level year note: 1960-1961
Reel-level location note: florida,nassau
Date: 1960 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: Miami, 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 1960s archival requests needing casual Miami leisure, backyard swimming, or sunbelt home-movie recreation as documentary or commercial texture.
Period detail: The pool ladder, tiled coping, white swim shorts, and saturated 8mm color support a mid-century home-movie leisure scene, with Miami and 1960 supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: A man casually holds the pool ladder and moves through the water, offering an unstaged view of private outdoor recreation rather than a posed portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in white swim shorts, turquoise pool water, metal ladder rails, pinkish tiled pool edge, concrete deck, dark bag, and stucco wall.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm focus, dense grain, high-contrast sun, deep shadows, and slight handheld framing that give the pool scene physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, leisure cutaway, vacation memory beat, or transition into themes of summer, retirement, domestic life, or Florida recreation.
Historical context: The scene reflects backyard pool leisure in a warm-weather U.S. setting, with no visible landmarks or public events to support broader historical claims.
Research note: A visible adult face and swimwear may require likeness review, while copyright and any property considerations should be checked separately before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960s Miami home movie pool scene, man swimming backyard pool, 8mm Florida leisure footage, and vintage summer recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Miami or 1960 Florida home movies, then broader vintage swimming, summer leisure, or backyard recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1960 Miami home-movie footage, a man in white swim shorts holds a pool ladder beside turquoise water and a tiled deck. — A man steadies himself on the pool ladder while standing in the water.

The man remains near the ladder in the backyard pool, with bright water, tile coping, and deck visible in the 1960 Miami footage. — The swimmer faces the ladder along the edge of the backyard pool.

A man in white swim shorts reaches for the metal ladder in a sunlit backyard pool, seen in grainy 8mm Miami footage from 1960. — The swimmer reaches toward the ladder from inside the pool.

The man climbs the metal ladder from the backyard pool, with white swim shorts, tiled coping, and deck visible in the 1960 Miami home movie. — The man begins climbing out of the pool using the metal ladder.

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