California-1959: Woman Walking on Beach in Plaid Swimsuit

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Woman Walking on Beach in Plaid Swimsuit — Clip Details

A woman in a plaid one-piece swimsuit and swim cap walks barefoot along a sun-drenched California beach in 1959. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures her strolling past palm trees and beachfront buildings, with gentle waves lapping at the shore. The vintage home movie shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic mid-century atmosphere. Her relaxed pace and the serene coastal setting evoke a classic summer vacation memory from the late 1950s.

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: 125507566

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 1084 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: philip 15 mos,santa anita,vegas,arizona,new mexico
Reel-level year note: 1958-1959
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1959 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: California, 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 1950s California beach life requests needing brief home-movie footage of a woman walking along the shoreline.
Period detail: The plaid one-piece swimsuit, swim cap, palm-lined beach, and 8mm color stock support a late-1950s vacation setting.
Home-movie behavior: The woman walks at an unposed pace near the surf, giving the clip a casual family-vacation observation rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a plaid swimsuit, swim cap, sandy beach, shoreline foam, palm trees, posts, and beachfront structures.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate marks, and handheld framing give the footage recognizable 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short seaside insert, vacation memory beat, or transition within mid-century California leisure sequences.
Historical context: The clip shows informal beach recreation and swimwear in a coastal setting, without enough visible detail to identify a specific beach or event.
Research note: A visible adult appears in swimwear, so likeness review may be needed in addition to ordinary copyright and source-rights checks.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1959 California beach home movie, woman in plaid swimsuit, 8mm shoreline footage, and mid-century vacation film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel beach scenes, then other California 1959 footage, then broader 1950s swimming, shore, and vacation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 California home-movie frame of a woman in a plaid one-piece swimsuit and swim cap walking along a sandy beach. — Woman walks barefoot across the beach, with palms and low beachfront structures in the distance.

Woman in plaid swimwear walks along a sunlit California beach in 1959, seen in soft 8mm home-movie footage. — The woman continues along the beach, with the shoreline and distant palms visible behind her.

1959 California beach frame showing a woman in a plaid one-piece swimsuit walking near posts and foamy surf. — The woman passes near vertical posts as waves break close to the sand.

Woman in plaid swimwear stands by the foamy shoreline in a 1959 California 8mm beach home movie frame. — The woman pauses near the waterline as surf spreads across the sand.

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