Alabama-1958: Dolphins Performing Tricks With Trainers In Pool

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationAlabama, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Alabama

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Dolphins Performing Tricks With Trainers In Pool — Clip Details

ALABAMA-1958: Dolphins perform tricks in a pool at a marine park, with a scoreboard showing names like 'Corky' and 'Sparkle' and scores of 2 and 4. Trainers in white uniforms guide the dolphins, which leap from the water and swim underwater. Shot on 8mm film, the footage has a nostalgic, grainy quality with vibrant blue water and a retro 1950s aesthetic. The scene captures a classic animal show, blending entertainment and education in a vintage home movie style.

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: 125504523

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: Yes
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: 1958 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: Alabama, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s-era editorial or documentary requests involving marine park entertainment, trained dolphins, animal shows, leisure travel, or midcentury family recreation in Alabama.
Period detail: The white trainer uniforms, painted scoreboard, simple pool staging, and 8mm color home-movie look support a late-1950s marine attraction setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, watching dolphins perform from the audience side rather than from a staged professional production angle.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dolphins surfacing and leaping, trainers in white uniforms, a pool edge, painted backdrop panels, a scoreboard with performer names, and underwater swimming.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated blue water, visible grain, soft focus, exposure shifts, and handheld framing that give the footage clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, cutaway, or transitional detail for midcentury tourism, animal performance, or family leisure sequences.
Historical context: The footage reflects a public dolphin show environment where marine animals performed guided tricks for spectators, as recorded through a home-movie lens.
Research note: People and possible venue signage are visible, so copyright, performer likeness, and location or trademark considerations should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Alabama 8mm dolphin show, vintage marine park trainers, midcentury animal performance footage, and home movie dolphins in pool.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then Alabama 1958 leisure or travel footage, then broader vintage marine park and animal show clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Alabama home-movie frame showing dolphins in a marine park pool with a white-uniformed trainer and a painted scoreboard behind them. — Dolphins surface in front of a trainer and scoreboard during a pool show.

A dolphin performs a vertical trick in a blue pool as white-uniformed trainers stand near the scoreboard in the Alabama 1958 footage. — A dolphin rises upright during the marine show while trainers watch from the platform.

Brightly exposed 8mm frame showing a dolphin near the pool surface with a trainer shape and pool structure softened by glare. — A dolphin moves through the pool in a bright, washed exposure shift.

Underwater 8mm view of a dolphin swimming below the surface, with low light and green-blue water obscuring detail. — A dolphin swims underwater in the closing frame of the clip.

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