Yorktown Virginia-1958: Lady Looking Around Sitting On A Towel On The Beach With

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

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Lady Looking Around Sitting On A Towel On The Beach With — Clip Details

A woman in a vintage bathing suit sits on a towel on the sandy beach in Yorktown, Virginia, in 1958. Shot on 8mm film, the clip captures her looking around while seated near a bucket, with a concrete pier railing and the ocean in the background. The footage has a nostalgic, grainy quality with faded green and blue tones, characteristic of home movie footage from the late 1950s. This authentic archival clip evokes mid-century American beach culture and leisure.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127284523

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 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 for 1950s editorial or documentary sequences needing home-movie beach leisure footage from Yorktown, Virginia.
Period detail: The vintage bathing suit, 8mm color look, beach towel, bucket, and simple concrete waterfront railing support a late-1950s leisure setting.
Home-movie behavior: The woman sits quietly on the sand and looks around, giving the clip an unstaged vacation-observation quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a seated woman, sandy beach, towel, small bucket, shoes or dark objects, concrete railing, water, and distant shoreline structures.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild handheld steadiness, faded green-blue color, and contact-print framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a beach cutaway, memory beat, transition, or quiet insert within a mid-century travel or family-life sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows casual mid-century beach recreation in a public waterfront setting without supporting any specific event or named landmark beyond the supplied Yorktown metadata.
Research note: A visible adult face and likeness may require review for some uses; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness considerations.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1958 Yorktown Virginia beach home movie, 1950s woman in bathing suit, or 8mm family vacation waterfront footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Yorktown or Virginia footage from 1958, then broader 1950s beach and vacation home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Yorktown, Virginia in 1958, a woman in a bathing suit sits on a beach towel near a bucket, with a concrete waterfront railing behind her. — Woman seated on the sand near a bucket and waterfront railing.

The woman remains seated on the Yorktown beach, looking slightly aside near a towel, bucket, concrete railing, and water in the background. — Seated beachgoer looking aside near a towel and bucket.

A 1958 home-movie frame shows the woman seated low on the sand near a bucket, with a concrete waterfront barrier and water behind her. — Quiet beach moment with a seated woman and waterfront railing.

The woman sits on the sandy Yorktown waterfront beside a towel and bucket, with dark shoes or belongings nearby and railing beyond. — Woman seated by beach belongings near the waterfront.

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