Florida-1958: Stormy Beach with Palm Trees and Lifeguard Chair

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Florida

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Stormy Beach with Palm Trees and Lifeguard Chair — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a stormy beach scene in Florida. Palm trees bend violently in strong winds as waves crash onto the shore. A red lifeguard chair stands in the foreground, while small houses and buildings line the coast in the distance. The footage shows significant film grain, scratches, and a hazy, overcast atmosphere, conveying the raw intensity of a tropical storm. This archival clip offers authentic 1950s Americana and is ideal for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or editorial use.

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: 125506223

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 1267 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1958
Reel-level location note: florida
Date: 1958 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: 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: Useful for requests needing 1950s Florida home-movie beach weather, coastal storm atmosphere, or vacation-era shoreline cutaways for documentary and editorial sequences.
Period detail: The footage may show a mid-century Florida beach setting, with a simple lifeguard chair, palms, low coastal buildings, and an 8mm home-movie viewpoint supporting the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a visitor-like distance rather than staging action, preserving a brief weather moment on a windy beach with no identifiable people foregrounded.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale shoreline, rough water, wind-bent palm trees, a red lifeguard chair, distant low buildings, beach sand, and hazy overcast sky.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, scratches, gate edges, uneven exposure, and slight haze give the 8mm scan a physical home-movie texture consistent with late-1950s amateur footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short storm insert, coastal transition, weather cutaway, or memory beat within Florida travel, hurricane-season, or mid-century vacation material.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a beach environment under strong wind and poor weather, offering social context for casual coastal observation without asserting a named storm or event.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any distant property concerns should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Florida 8mm beach storm, vintage home movie palm trees in wind, red lifeguard chair shoreline, and overcast coastal vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Florida beach or shoreline footage, and then broader vintage storm, palm tree, and coastal weather scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Florida 8mm frame showing a hazy shoreline, rough water, distant land, and visible film borders. — A soft, overcast view across the water toward a distant Florida shoreline.

1958 Florida beach footage with a distant coastline, small boat shape, pale water, and heavy 8mm wear. — A distant shoreline and small boat-like shape sit under a washed, stormy sky.

1958 Florida 8mm frame showing windblown palms, beach sand, water, and a red lifeguard chair in stormy weather. — Palm trees bend along the beach as a red lifeguard chair stands near the shore.

1958 Florida coastal frame with wind-bent palms, low beachside buildings, sand, and a red lifeguard chair. — A red lifeguard chair and palm trees frame a windy, hazy beach scene.

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