Florida-1945: Enjoying A Day At The Beach On A Windy Cool Day

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Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Enjoying A Day At The Beach On A Windy Cool Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1945, this vintage home movie captures a serene day at the beach in Florida. The clip opens with waves crashing onto a sandy shore under a cool, overcast sky, viewed through the frame of a window or doorway. The scene transitions to a tropical residential area with white buildings, palm trees, and manicured lawns. A man and woman stroll along a sidewalk, the woman in a pink blouse and blue trousers, the man in a light-colored shirt, both enjoying the breezy weather. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and authentic Super 8 charm, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American vacation.

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: 127465064

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 1044 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: 200p, blue hole
Reel-level year note: 1945
Reel-level location note: florida
Date: 1945 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s Florida home-movie requests needing beach weather, coastal vacation atmosphere, or mid-century leisure cutaways for documentary and editorial use.
Period detail: The clothing, 8mm color stock, low seaside buildings, palms, and open beach setting may show mid-1940s Florida vacation or residential resort life.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged visitor viewpoint: surf seen through a window or doorway, then a casually dressed couple walking toward the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include ocean surf, pale sand, a window or doorway frame, white low buildings, palm trees, lawns, sidewalks, and two adults walking outdoors.
Film character: The footage carries a soft 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, slight color fading, handheld framing, and contact-print wear at the frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief coastal transition, vacation-memory insert, weather cutaway, or establishing beat before a Florida leisure sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows beach and resort-area leisure in a warm-weather American setting, with no visible signage or landmarks to identify a specific town.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, while copyright, location, and any property concerns should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s Florida beach home movie, 8mm coastal vacation footage, windy beach surf, mid-century resort sidewalk, and couple walking outdoors.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1945 Florida footage, and then broader beach, resort, travel, and mid-century leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s Florida beach view with surf and sand framed by a dark vertical window or doorway edge. — Surf breaks along a quiet beach, viewed from inside or near a framed opening.

Soft 1940s Florida beach view with breaking surf and indistinct poles or beach markers in the foreground. — A soft-focus beach view shows surf beyond a few upright shapes in the sand.

Florida resort or residential area with white low buildings, palms, trimmed grass, shrubs, and a sidewalk. — Low white buildings and palms border a manicured seaside walkway.

In 1940s Florida footage, an adult couple walks toward the camera along a resort-area sidewalk. — A casually dressed couple walks past lawns and shaded buildings near the beach.

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