California-1952: Group Swimming in Ocean with Ferry Visible

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD

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Group Swimming in Ocean with Ferry Visible — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1952 captures a group of people treading water in a large body of blue water, likely the ocean. The footage, shot from an elevated angle, shows several individuals in swimwear floating and moving in the water, with one person holding a white object. The scene transitions to a group of people, many wearing hats, disembarking from a white building with a sign reading 'AS CATALINA AVALON', suggesting a ferry or resort. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic 1950s California 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: 127545585

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: Yes
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 1234 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: miss universe
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1952 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: California, 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 California vacation or leisure sequences needing home-movie views of swimmers in blue water and a Catalina/Avalon arrival or departure setting.
Period detail: The swimwear, sun hats, white vessel or terminal facade, and visible Catalina/Avalon lettering support a mid-century Southern California travel context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged vacation behavior, with swimmers treading water below the camera and a crowd moving through a doorway in casual travel clothes.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include swimmers in dark blue water, bright splashes, elevated framing, a white facade, doorway, hats, faces, and partial Catalina/Avalon signage.
Film character: The 8mm image has saturated blue water, soft focus, rounded frame edges, handheld instability, and mild motion blur consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief leisure insert, travel transition, coastal vacation cutaway, or memory beat between water activity and passenger movement.
Historical context: The footage may show mid-century recreational travel around Catalina or Avalon, with swimmers and dressed visitors suggesting a vacation excursion rather than a staged event.
Research note: People, faces, and visible signage require review for likeness, location, trademark, and contextual use; copyright and personality rights should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1952 California home movie swimmers, Catalina Avalon travel footage, 8mm vacation crowd, and mid-century people treading water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel California vacation shots, then other 1952 Catalina or Avalon material, then broader 1950s coastal leisure and ferry-travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 California home-movie frame showing several people in swimwear treading water in dark blue water from an elevated viewpoint. — Swimmers float and tread water below the camera in a blue-water setting.

Several swimmers are visible in blue water, including one near a pale object, in a soft 8mm home-movie frame. — People tread water in a wide blue-water view with small splashes around them.

Elevated 1952 California home-movie view of swimmers in blue water, with soft focus and visible film-frame borders. — A few swimmers move through the water as the handheld camera looks down from above.

A crowd of visitors, many in hats, stands at a white doorway with partial Catalina Avalon signage visible above. — Visitors gather at a doorway under partial Catalina and Avalon signage.

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