Tampa Florida USA-1960: Palm Trees And Pool Cuts To Fountain With Statue

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

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Palm Trees And Pool Cuts To Fountain With Statue — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched resort scene in Tampa, Florida. The footage opens on a tropical courtyard with tall palm trees swaying in front of a white building, a swimming pool, and rows of lounge chairs. The camera then cuts to a decorative fountain featuring a small statue and water jets, set against a backdrop of manicured hedges and red-tiled steps. The warm, slightly faded colors and film grain evoke a nostalgic 1960s vacation memory.

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: 123630661

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: 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Serves 1960s Florida travel and tourism documentary needs, resort lifestyle segments, or nostalgic American-leisure montage sequences in historical or educational productions.
Period detail: The large white multi-story building style, lamp post design, ornamental garden beds, and warm color palette may indicate a mid-century Florida resort circa 1960; no dateable signage is visible.
Home-movie behavior: Visitor-shot resort tour — the camera pans the manicured grounds then cuts to the decorative fountain, reflecting a tourist's instinct to document impressive hotel amenities rather than candid life.
What appears in frame: Tall palm trees, white multi-story resort building, manicured garden beds with colorful plantings, ornamental lamp posts, a pool area, trimmed hedges, red-tiled steps, and a small figurative fountain statue.
Film character: 8mm color film shows warm, slightly faded hues and visible grain in shadowed areas, with mild exposure variation across pans — characteristic archival texture of amateur mid-century travel footage.
Edit role: Works as an establishing cutaway for a 1960s Florida resort sequence, a tourism-era transition, or a nostalgia memory-beat between human-story moments in a documentary or branded heritage piece.
Historical context: Florida resort tourism expanded rapidly in the postwar decades; this footage reflects mid-century American leisure-class access to subtropical resort hotels with ornamental grounds and fountain features.
Research note: No people or legible signage visible in any frame; the building and fountain may constitute identifiable private property — rights holder confirmation is advisable before clearance is assumed.
Research search match: Researchers may query for 1960s Florida hotel grounds, mid-century resort tourism, vintage Tampa vacation film, 8mm color travel footage, or postwar American leisure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel; then other Tampa or Florida resort footage from the 1960s; then mid-century US tourist-destination or outdoor leisure clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960s 8mm footage of a Florida resort — large white building framed by tall palms, colorful garden beds, and ornamental lamp posts under a bright overcast sky. — Resort grounds with palms and white hotel building, Tampa, Florida, c.1960.

1960s 8mm pan of a Florida resort showing the white building through palm trees, with a pool area and lounge chairs visible in the mid-ground, Tampa, Florida. — Palm-lined resort grounds with pool area, Tampa, Florida, c.1960.

8mm color shot of a Florida resort palm grove, c.1960 — palms dominate the frame with a white building partially visible at left and manicured lawn in shadow below. — Dense palm canopy over resort lawn, Tampa, Florida, c.1960.

1960s 8mm close-up of an ornamental resort fountain — small figurative statue in a square basin with water jets, red-tiled steps, and clipped hedges, Tampa, Florida area. — Ornamental fountain with small statue and red-tiled steps, Tampa resort, c.1960.

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