Tampa Florida USA-1960: Sailing On Waterway With View Of Palm Trees Building And Drawbridge

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

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Sailing On Waterway With View Of Palm Trees Building And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a serene waterway view in Tampa, Florida. The clip opens with a white building nestled among palm trees and lush greenery along the waterfront, its reflection shimmering on the calm water. The perspective shifts to reveal a drawbridge in the distance, its span raised to allow a boat to pass beneath. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—soft focus, subtle color shifts, and natural grain—evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic period footage for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123631523

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 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: Serves 1960s Florida waterway requests for documentary cutaways, mid-century American leisure narratives, and Southern coastal urban-history productions.
Period detail: White two-storey waterfront building with louvred shutters and railed porch, palm trees, and a raised bascule drawbridge suggest early-1960s Florida coastal infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from a moving boat, the camera pans casually along the shoreline before tilting to catch the raised drawbridge — an unscripted, visitor-on-the-water perspective.
What appears in frame: White two-storey waterfront building, railed porch and seawall, palm trees and tall pines, calm blue waterway, rocky shoreline, raised bascule drawbridge span, clear sky, boat wake.
Film character: 8mm emulsion delivers a cool blue colour cast, visible grain, slight halation on the white building facade, and gentle handheld drift consistent with period amateur filming.
Edit role: Works as a waterway-travel insert or location-establishing cutaway; the drawbridge lift in the final frame offers a natural transition cut or chapter-open beat.
Historical context: Florida's waterway corridors were busy leisure and commercial routes by 1960, making drawbridge footage a period marker of boat traffic management on intracoastal channels.
Research note: No people are visible; the waterfront building may constitute private property — verify current ownership and any architectural copyright before use beyond editorial contexts.
Research search match: 1960s Florida waterway 8mm, vintage drawbridge raised bascule footage, mid-century Tampa coastal home movie, 1960 intracoastal palm tree boat pov.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same Tampa 1960 reel; then with Florida waterway or intracoastal footage from the same decade; then with drawbridge or marina sequences for transport-history edits.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm home movie frame, c. 1960, Tampa, Florida: white waterfront building with railed porch, palm trees, rocky seawall, and blue waterway in foreground. — White waterfront building seen from the water, Tampa, Florida, c. 1960.

8mm frame, c. 1960, Tampa, Florida: white multi-windowed building with louvred shutters, leaning palm tree, and waterway foreground with rocky shore. — Waterfront building with palm tree, Tampa waterway, c. 1960.

8mm frame, c. 1960, Tampa, Florida: two-storey white building with white porch railing, tall pines at left, palm trees, calm waterway in foreground. — White waterfront building and pines from the water, Tampa, c. 1960.

8mm frame, c. 1960, Tampa, Florida: raised bascule drawbridge leaf angled upward over the waterway channel, bridge roadway and abutments visible. — Raised drawbridge over Tampa waterway, c. 1960.

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