French Lick Indiana-1958: Bathers Walked On The Beach

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationFrench Lick, Indiana, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 French Lick Indiana

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Bathers Walked On The Beach — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures bathers walking along a beach in French Lick, Indiana. A man in a dark shirt and shorts walks away from the camera, followed by two women in swimsuits, one in black and one in white. Another man in a white shirt and dark trunks appears, walking alongside a shirtless man in swim trunks. The footage features classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and a nostalgic, candid atmosphere, evoking mid-century American leisure and family vacations.

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: 127402924

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 2028 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: twenty grand
Reel-level year note: 1958
Reel-level location note: french lick, indiana
Date: 1958 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: French Lick, Indiana, 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: Useful for 1950s American leisure, resort, beach, and vacation sequences needing brief home-movie footage of bathers walking in a public-looking sunlit area.
Period detail: The swimwear, casual shorts, and 8mm color home-movie texture support a late-1950s leisure setting, with French Lick, Indiana and 1958 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in unstaged pedestrian movement, with bathers crossing or walking away from the camera as a family or visitor records the scene from a distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adult bathers, swimsuits, a white shirt, dark trunks, bright pavement or sand, deep shade, and strong mid-day contrast.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, high contrast, soft focus, slight color warmth, and a handheld or fixed home-movie viewpoint with contact-sheet exposure variation.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, resort-life insert, transition beat, or memory fragment within a sequence about mid-century vacations or public recreation.
Historical context: The scene shows casual mixed-gender leisure in swimwear, offering visual context for everyday American resort or beachgoing behavior without identifying the individuals.
Research note: People are visible and may require likeness review for commercial use; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from personal rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm home movie bathers, French Lick Indiana beach footage, 1950s resort leisure, vintage swimmers walking, and mid-century vacation film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 French Lick material, then broader 1950s beach, resort, swimming, and vacation home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1958 French Lick footage, a bather in dark swimwear walks away from the camera across a sunlit beach or paved area. — A lone bather walks away from the camera toward the shaded edge of the scene.

Two adult women in swimsuits walk away from the camera in the 1958 French Lick beach or resort scene. — Two women in swimsuits move away from the camera across the sunlit area.

Two adult men, one in a white shirt and one shirtless in swim trunks, pass through the 1958 French Lick leisure scene. — Two men in beachwear cross the frame in strong sunlight.

A man in a white shirt walks away in the 1958 French Lick scene as another bather stands near the dark edge of the frame. — A white-shirted man walks toward the shaded background as another bather remains at right.

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