Yorktown Virginia-1958: Beach Sand Swimming Swimsuits On The Ocean With Seagulls

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

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Beach Sand Swimming Swimsuits On The Ocean With Seagulls — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a quiet beach scene in Yorktown, Virginia. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows a wide sandy shore with two distinctive black-and-white checkered beach umbrellas. A lone figure in a swimsuit walks along the water's edge, while the calm ocean stretches to the horizon under a hazy sky. The footage includes a trash can and a signpost, with subtle camera movement revealing the peaceful, nostalgic atmosphere of a mid-century summer day at the coast.

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: 127284480

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 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

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: Supports 1950s coastal leisure and mid-century summer cutaway requests for documentary, education, and editorial productions using real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The checkered beach umbrellas, simple signpost, metal trash can, swimsuits, and color 8mm texture may show everyday American beachgoing in the late 1950s.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor viewpoint, holding on a quiet shoreline as a distant swimmer or beachgoer moves near the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale sand, calm ocean, hazy horizon, checkered umbrellas, a signpost, a trash can, seagulls, and a distant person in swimwear.
Film character: The scan carries soft grain, muted color, slight exposure unevenness, frame-edge darkness, and handheld composition typical of small-gauge home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief coastal insert, summer transition, establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a family or travel sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for mid-century beach recreation without showing identifiable landmarks beyond the supplied Yorktown, Virginia metadata.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed even though no logos, music, or private property are apparent in the frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Yorktown Virginia beach 8mm, 1950s family beach home movie, checkered beach umbrella, and vintage ocean swimming footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1958 Yorktown or Virginia coastal footage, and then with broader 1950s summer beach scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yorktown beach view with pale sand, calm water, two black-and-white checkered umbrellas, a signpost, and a trash can. — A quiet sandy shoreline with checkered beach umbrellas and calm water beyond.

Yorktown, Virginia beach scene with a checkered umbrella near the shoreline, a signpost, a trash can, and small seagulls over calm water. — A checkered umbrella sits near the waterline under a hazy coastal sky.

1958 Yorktown beach frame showing a checkered umbrella, signpost, trash can, calm ocean, and a distant person walking near the water. — A distant beachgoer appears near the water beyond the umbrella and signpost.

Yorktown beach view with broad pale sand, calm ocean, hazy horizon, gulls, and a distant person in swimwear near the shoreline. — A lone distant figure walks along the quiet shoreline.

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