Florida-1945: A Beautiful Lake Surrounded By Coconut Trees Houses And A Road

$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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A Beautiful Lake Surrounded By Coconut Trees Houses And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1945, this vintage home movie captures a serene waterfront view in Florida. The clip shows a calm body of water with a lush shoreline lined with swaying coconut trees and modest houses. A road runs along the edge of the property, with a car visible in one frame. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, natural color shifts, and film grain, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American leisure scene. The camera appears to move slowly, offering a peaceful, observational perspective of a tropical residential area.

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: 127465326

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 home-movie requests needing quiet waterfront residential scenery for documentary, museum, or educational context.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century Florida shoreline housing, palms, a roadside edge, and a distant car, with no visible people or signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie viewpoint from across the water, recording scenery rather than a staged subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled water, palm-lined banks, low houses, a shoreline road, a parked or passing car, cloudy sky, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, muted color shifts, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld framing that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief establishing cutaway, location transition, or reflective memory beat for Florida leisure or residential waterfront sequences.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for a tropical Florida residential waterfront, but it does not identify a specific town, lake, family, or property.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or noted, but copyright and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1945 Florida 8mm waterfront, vintage lake houses with palm trees, and mid-century tropical residential shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Florida 1945 views, then broader 1940s waterfront, road, car, and palm-lined home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1945 Florida 8mm frame showing rippled water across from palm trees and low houses along the shore. — Palm-lined residential shoreline seen from across the water.

1945 Florida waterfront view with palms, houses, a shoreline road, and a car visible near the bank. — Residential shoreline with palms and a car near the road.

1945 Florida 8mm view of water facing palm trees and low houses along a residential shoreline. — Low houses and palms line the far bank across the water.

1945 Florida frame looking down a waterway with palm trees and houses along the right shoreline. — A wider waterway view with palms and houses along one bank.

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