Bahamas-1969: Woman Wearing Black Bathing Suit Bobbing in Calm Ocean Waters

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationBahamas
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Woman Wearing Black Bathing Suit Bobbing in Calm Ocean... — Clip Details

A woman in a black bathing suit floats calmly in the turquoise waters of the Bahamas in 1969. Shot on 8mm film, the clip captures her gently bobbing in the shallow ocean, her dark hair visible above the waterline. The vintage footage shows natural film grain and a slightly faded color palette, with the water shifting from deep blue to lighter turquoise. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment of summer recreation, with gentle waves lapping around her. This authentic home movie captures a serene, timeless moment of leisure.

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: 125062140

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: 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 1022 · Super 8 · 5″ reel
Original reel label: cruise
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: bahamas
Date: 1969 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: Bahamas 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: Supports 1960s Bahamas travel, beach recreation, and home-movie leisure requests needing a quiet ocean swimming cutaway with an identifiable adult figure.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft exposure, simple swimwear, and faded palette support the 1969 home-movie context without showing specific landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: An adult woman calmly bobs in shallow water, facing the camera in an unstaged vacation moment filmed from a casual shore or boat perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a dark bathing suit, calm blue-green ocean water, gentle ripples, distant shoreline, open horizon, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, slight color fading, soft focus, and minor gate or contact-sheet variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief insert, memory beat, beach-travel cutaway, or transition within sequences about vacation, swimming, or island leisure.
Historical context: The footage shows informal seaside recreation in the Bahamas during the late 1960s, centered on personal leisure rather than a public event.
Research note: An adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, music, private property, or minors are apparent from the supplied frames.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Bahamas 8mm beach swimming, woman in black bathing suit ocean, vintage home movie island vacation, and calm turquoise water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Bahamas vacation material, then other 1969 Bahamas beach scenes, then broader 1960s ocean swimming and home-movie leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Adult woman in a dark bathing suit faces the camera while bobbing in calm Bahamas ocean water in 1969 home-movie footage. — A woman floats chest-deep in quiet blue-green water.

The woman remains chest-deep in calm Bahamas water, centered in a soft 8mm frame with no visible shoreline detail. — The swimmer faces the camera as small ripples move around her.

An adult woman in a dark bathing suit spreads her arms slightly while floating in calm 1969 Bahamas ocean footage. — The woman drifts with her arms just above the waterline.

The swimmer bobs in blue-green Bahamas water with a low distant shoreline visible near the horizon in the 1969 home-movie frame. — A distant strip of shore appears behind the woman in the water.

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