Florida USA-1973: Beach Day With Fishing Net And Palm Trees

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Beach Day With Fishing Net And Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this Florida home movie captures a nostalgic summer day at the beach. The footage begins with blurred, purple-tinted motion of palm trees and foliage, suggesting movement from a vehicle or handheld camera. The scene transitions to a person holding a fishing net on the sandy shore, followed by two individuals passing the net back and forth in the shallow water. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and motion blur, evoking authentic 1970s amateur footage. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, or history educators exploring mid-century American leisure.

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: 125582422

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 1014 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1973-1974
Reel-level location note: florida
Date: 1973 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Archival 1970s Florida beach home-movie footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing casual coastal leisure and amateur 8mm texture.
Period detail: The clip may show 1970s beach recreation through handheld filming, simple swimwear, a small fishing net, palm foliage, and color-shifted 8mm stock from the stated 1973 source.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged handling of a fishing net at the shoreline, with cropped arms and handheld framing suggesting a family or visitor filming a casual beach moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include palm silhouettes, dense shoreline foliage, purple sky, sandy shallow water, a small mesh fishing net, cropped adult arms, and partial swimwear.
Film character: The footage has pronounced 8mm grain, purple color shift, soft focus, vertical scratches, gate edges, and handheld blur that mark it as original amateur physical-film material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, memory beat, beach-day transition, or tactile cutaway between broader scenes about Florida leisure or family travel.
Historical context: The frames document casual coastal recreation rather than a named event, showing how a beach visit and simple net play were recorded in private home-movie style.
Research note: People are partially visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are visible, and copyright clearance remains separate from appearance rights.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1973 Florida beach 8mm home movie, 1970s fishing net shoreline footage, palm trees amateur film, and vintage family beach day.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then other 1973 Florida footage, then broader 1970s beach, vacation, palm-tree, or fishing-net home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Florida 8mm frame with purple-tinted palm trees and dense foliage in soft motion blur. — Palm trees and foliage pass through a purple-tinted handheld frame.

Soft 8mm view of Florida shoreline foliage or trees, heavily purple-shifted and blurred by handheld movement. — Blurred foliage and sky create a transitional home-movie view.

1973 Florida beach frame showing cropped people holding a small mesh fishing net near sandy shallow water. — Hands stretch a small fishing net at the shoreline.

Purple-shifted 8mm beach frame with two partially visible people handling a mesh fishing net in shallow water. — A fishing net is passed between cropped figures in the surf.

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