Yorktown Virginia-1958: Beach with Checkered Umbrellas in Yorktown

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationYorktown, Virginia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Yorktown Virginia

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Beach with Checkered Umbrellas in Yorktown — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1958 captures a quiet, overcast day at a beach in Yorktown, Virginia. The grainy, slightly faded footage shows a wide, empty shoreline with white sand and calm ocean waters under a gray sky. Several black-and-white checkered beach umbrellas dot the sand, and a lifeguard tower stands near the water's edge. The scene is framed by dark borders, suggesting it was shot through a window or viewfinder, adding to its nostalgic, personal feel. No people are visible, emphasizing the serene, abandoned atmosphere of a cloudy summer day.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127284460

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 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: Yorktown, Virginia, 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 1950s 8mm beach cutaway for documentary, museum, education, or editorial projects needing a quiet Mid-Atlantic shoreline atmosphere.
Period detail: The checkered umbrellas, simple lifeguard stand, muted color, and 8mm home-movie framing support a late-1950s vacation or public-beach setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor viewpoint, holding on the empty beach and water as a casual home-movie observation rather than a composed travel scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale sand, calm water, gray sky, black-and-white checkered umbrellas, a small lifeguard stand, posts, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: Soft grain, faded color, slight exposure variation, and visible frame edges give the short shot a scanned 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an establishing insert, transition, memory beat, or quiet atmospheric cutaway around seaside leisure and summer travel.
Historical context: The view suggests a public beach environment in Yorktown, Virginia, with simple shoreline infrastructure and no visible crowds in the selected frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any location or municipal property considerations still require separate review.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Yorktown Virginia beach, 1950s 8mm shoreline, empty cloudy beach home movie, and checkered beach umbrellas.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Yorktown or Virginia beach footage, then broader 1950s coastal leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yorktown, Virginia beach view with pale sand, calm water, checkered umbrellas, and a small lifeguard stand under a gray sky. — Two checkered umbrellas sit on an otherwise empty beach near a small lifeguard stand.

1958 Yorktown, Virginia shoreline with checkered umbrellas spaced across pale sand and a small lifeguard stand near calm water. — Checkered umbrellas and a lifeguard stand mark a quiet shoreline on an overcast day.

Yorktown, Virginia beach in 1958, showing a mostly empty shoreline with a checkered umbrella, posts, and calm water beyond the sand. — A single checkered umbrella stands near the water on a mostly empty beach.

1958 Yorktown, Virginia beach view with checkered umbrellas along the sand, a leaning post, a small sign, and calm water under gray sky. — Checkered umbrellas line the quiet sand beside a leaning post and small beach sign.

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