Tampa Florida USA-1960: Swimmers Wade at Wooden Fishing Pier

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationTampa, Florida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Tampa Florida

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Swimmers Wade at Wooden Fishing Pier — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a sunny day at a Florida beach with a long wooden pier extending into the turquoise sea. People in swimwear stroll along the sand and wade in the waves under a clear blue sky. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic 1960s aesthetic, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

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: 123630058

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: Tampa, 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: 1960 Florida beach home-movie footage suited to documentary inserts about coastal leisure, seaside travel, fishing piers, or midcentury family vacations.
Period detail: The swimwear, long wooden pier, 8mm framing, and faded color palette support a midcentury beach setting consistent with the supplied 1960 Tampa metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes beachgoers from a casual distance as people stroll, wade, and pass through the surf without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad sandy beach, small waves, turquoise water, a long wooden pier or fishing platform, scattered swimmers, and distant walkers.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, gate edges, slight weave, and exposure shifts that give the beach scene authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short coastal cutaway, vacation-memory beat, pier establishing insert, or transition between Florida travel or seaside recreation sequences.
Historical context: The footage shows public beach leisure and pier-side recreation in the Tampa area, offering visual context for everyday coastal tourism without making broader historical claims.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from depicted-person considerations.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1960 Tampa beach 8mm footage, Florida pier home movie, midcentury seaside vacation, and vintage fishing platform beach scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1960 Tampa or Florida beach footage, then broader midcentury pier, surf, vacation, and coastal leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Tampa-area beach view with walkers near the shoreline and a long wooden fishing pier crossing the background. — Beachgoers move along the sand below a long pier over the water.

A beachgoer walks at the edge of the surf beneath a long wooden pier in 1960 Tampa-area home-movie footage. — A lone beachgoer passes through the shallow surf with the pier behind.

Tampa-area beach scene showing a figure near the waterline, low surf, and the wooden pier across the horizon. — A beachgoer pauses near the waves as the pier runs across the background.

End frame of the 1960 Tampa-area beach clip with a walker near the surf and the long wooden pier visible beyond. — A figure walks along the beach while gentle waves break below the pier.

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