Ringling Brothers Sarasota Florida-1948: Three Women Wearing Leis And Playing Instruments

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationRingling Brothers Sarasota, Florida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 Ringling Brothers Sarasota Florida

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Three Women Wearing Leis And Playing Instruments — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures three women in traditional attire wearing leis and playing string instruments inside a tent at the Ringling Brothers circus in Sarasota, Florida. The grainy black-and-white footage shows them performing with musical instruments, likely ukuleles, under a canvas roof with visible support poles. The scene exudes a nostalgic, mid-century Americana atmosphere, with the performers seated and engaged in their act. The footage has natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse into circus entertainment and cultural performances of the late 1940s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
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: 124604123

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: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: Yes

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1948 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Ringling Brothers Sarasota, Florida, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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 1940s documentary or museum edits needing circus-era entertainment, tent performance, or visitor-shot Americana from Sarasota, Florida.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century circus presentation details, including leis, string instruments, seated performers, canvas tenting, poles, and a dense audience view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, moving from performers to the tent interior and crowd rather than staging a formal performance record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three seated women, leis, small string instruments, canvas tent roof, support poles, crowded seating, and blurred spectators.
Film character: The 8mm image carries strong grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate edges, and handheld framing consistent with a brief home-movie fragment.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cultural-performance cutaway, circus atmosphere beat, or transition within a 1940s leisure sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents spectatorship and live entertainment inside a circus tent, with performers presented to a large audience in a home-movie view.
Research note: People and faces are visible, audible music is flagged, and likeness or music considerations should be reviewed separately from film copyright status.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1948 8mm Ringling Brothers Sarasota footage, women with leis playing instruments, circus tent audience, or mid-century home movie performance.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1948 Sarasota or Ringling Brothers footage, then broader circus performance and audience material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Three women wearing leis appear to perform with small string instruments inside a Ringling Brothers tent in Sarasota, Florida, in 1948. — Three seated performers with leis and instruments inside the circus tent.

Soft, blurred 1948 home-movie frame of women with instruments and leis near tent supports at the Sarasota circus location. — Blurred continuation of the performers seated near the tent structure.

Audience view under a canvas circus tent roof, with poles crossing the frame and a bright opening beyond the crowd. — The camera turns toward the crowd beneath the tent roof.

Final 1948 circus-tent view showing a dense audience beneath canvas, framed by dark support poles and soft 8mm grain. — Dense audience and tent structure at the end of the clip.

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