Miami Florida-1956: Fishing In The Ocean On A Sunny Afternoon With Friends

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationMiami, Florida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 in Florida

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Fishing In The Ocean On A Sunny Afternoon With Friends — Clip Details

MIAMI FLORIDA-1956: A person in a light-colored shirt leans over the edge of a boat, fishing in the deep blue ocean on a sunny afternoon. The 8mm film captures the gentle motion of the water and the quiet focus of the angler, with a fishing line visible against the waves. The footage has a nostalgic, grainy quality typical of vintage home movies from the 1950s, evoking a sense of leisure and classic American recreation.

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: 124607532

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1956 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: Miami, 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 1950s Miami-area leisure, fishing, boating, and ocean recreation sequences in documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing real home-movie material.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-1950s recreational boating, with simple casual clothing, handheld 8mm framing, and no visible modern shoreline details in the sampled frames.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged boat-side view of a person concentrating near the rail while water fills most of the frame, suggesting a casual fishing outing with companions.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue ocean water, a boat edge, a person in a light shirt, a fishing line, distant low shoreline, strong daylight, film grain, and handheld framing.
Film character: The clip has saturated blue color, coarse 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that give it useful physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, transition, establishing detail, or memory beat for 1950s fishing, boating, Miami leisure, or ocean recreation.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual postwar American recreation through a home-movie lens, showing ocean activity from within the boat rather than a staged tourism view.
Research note: People are visible and faces may be partially identifiable, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1956 Miami fishing footage, 1950s Florida ocean home movie, vintage 8mm boating recreation, and people fishing from a boat.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Miami or 1956 Florida boating material, then broader 1950s fishing, ocean, and leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Miami home-movie frame showing a person in a light shirt near a boat edge, with textured blue ocean water filling the background. — A person bends near the boat edge as the ocean moves behind them.

1956 Miami footage frame with a partial figure at the lower edge and open blue water dominating the view from a boat. — The camera catches mostly open water with the person only partly visible at the lower edge.

1956 Miami home-movie frame looking over rippled blue water toward a low, distant shoreline under bright daylight. — A brief cutaway shows open water and a distant low shoreline.

1956 Miami frame showing a person near the boat side, with a thin fishing line visible over dark blue ocean water. — A thin fishing line is visible as the person remains near the boat edge.

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