Florida-1945: Waterfront Homes and Palm Trees

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1945
Decade1940s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Waterfront Homes and Palm Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1945, this vintage home movie captures a panning view of waterfront homes in Florida. The footage shows a calm body of water in the foreground with palm trees and single-story houses lining the shore. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, natural color fading, and visible grain. The scene unfolds under a bright, overcast sky, with the camera moving steadily from left to right, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century Florida residential life.

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: 127465310

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 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s Florida residential waterfront requests needing a brief establishing view, transition, or period lifestyle cutaway.
Period detail: The low shoreline homes, palms, and open water may show mid-century Florida coastal or canal-side residential development.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor or family-camera perspective, panning across the opposite bank without staging or direct human activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled water, palm trees, single-story waterfront homes, lawns, cloudy sky, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries soft focus, muted color, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld movement typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a short establishing insert, memory beat, or transition into Florida travel, family, or coastal-residential material.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for everyday waterfront housing and palm-lined landscapes in Florida during the 1940s, based on clip metadata.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1945 8mm Florida waterfront homes, vintage palm-lined shoreline, and mid-century home movie water views.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Florida travel footage, then other 1945 Florida scenes, then broader waterfront homes or palm landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1945 Florida 8mm view of low waterfront homes and palm trees across a calm body of water. — Waterfront homes and palms line the far bank beyond rippled water.

Soft 8mm frame from 1945 Florida showing palm trees, shoreline houses, and water in the foreground. — The pan continues along palm trees and low homes beside the water.

1945 Florida home-movie frame with darker exposure on palm trees, low waterfront houses, and water. — Darker exposure reveals houses set among palms along the shoreline.

End of a 1945 Florida 8mm pan showing palms, low buildings, and rippled water under a cloudy sky. — The pan finishes on palms and low buildings across the water.

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