California-1959: Family Playing In Ocean With Swimsuits On Hot Summer Day

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Family Playing In Ocean With Swimsuits On Hot Summer Day — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from California in 1959 captures a family enjoying a hot summer day at the beach. A woman in a dark one-piece swimsuit and white swim cap floats with an inner tube, while a man in swim trunks stands in the water. Later, the family poses together on a striped beach blanket—two women in retro swimsuits and a man—smiling at the camera. The footage shows classic 1950s beachwear, gentle waves, and a nostalgic, sun-drenched atmosphere with natural film grain and slight color fading.

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: 125507645

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: 1950s California beach home-movie footage for edits needing family recreation, ocean swimming, or midcentury summer leisure.
Period detail: The swimsuits, white swim cap, striped beach blanket, and 8mm color stock support a late-1950s beach setting consistent with the 1959 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: Adults smile toward the camera, stand together in shallow surf, and float with beach tubes in an informal family vacation moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include shallow ocean water, distant swimmers, adult beachgoers, a striped blanket, swim tubes, blue sky, horizon line, and film gate edges.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight fading, gate borders, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, beach-life cutaway, or transition within a sequence on midcentury recreation.
Historical context: The footage shows casual seaside leisure and period swimwear without identifying a specific beach, family name, or public event.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright or source-film licensing checks.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 California beach home movie, 1950s ocean swimming, vintage swimsuits, family beach vacation, and 8mm summer footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel beach scenes, then California 1959 family footage, then broader 1950s ocean recreation or swimsuit material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 California beach home-movie frame showing shallow surf, distant swimmers, a horizon line, and visible 8mm film borders. — Distant beachgoers float and wade in shallow ocean water.

1959 California beach frame with three adults in period swimsuits posing in shallow surf beside a striped blanket and dark swim tube. — Three adults pose together in the surf with beach gear.

1959 California beach home-movie frame showing three adults smiling near a striped blanket, with ocean water and swimmers behind them. — The group stands close together for the camera in shallow water.

1959 California beach frame showing two people floating offshore on an inflatable, with calm water, horizon, and sky in view. — Two beachgoers float farther out in the water.

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