Nassau Bahamas-1961: Sea Urchin Coral Rocks Ocean Floor Sea Floor

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationNassau, Bahamas
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Nassau Bahamas

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Sea Urchin Coral Rocks Ocean Floor Sea Floor — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a mysterious underwater scene from Nassau, Bahamas. The footage shows a murky, greenish-blue ocean floor with dark, amorphous shapes resembling sea urchins and coral formations. The image is grainy and slightly distorted, with floating particles and film artifacts visible, evoking a sense of deep-sea exploration. The camera appears to drift slowly, revealing the textured seabed and scattered rocks. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse of marine life and the ocean floor from a bygone era, perfect for historical documentaries, retro-themed content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 127583936

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 1121 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: trip to florida,nassau,browns hotel,spring,woodpecker build nest,tree,catfish caught river,flowers,tulip
Reel-level year note: 1960-1961
Reel-level location note: florida,nassau
Date: 1961 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: Nassau, Bahamas 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: Supports requests for early 1960s 8mm travel footage of underwater marine scenery in Nassau, useful as an archival cutaway for ocean, reef, tourism, or memory-based productions.
Period detail: The 8mm format, soft color, and metadata-supported 1961 Nassau setting place this as period home-movie footage, though the visible scene itself contains no date-specific landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera drifts close to the seafloor from an amateur visitor perspective, suggesting unstaged observation rather than a controlled wildlife or scientific setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green-blue water, a sandy or rocky seabed, dark sea urchin-like forms, coral or rock clusters, floating particles, frame edges, and film grain.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, underwater haze, green-blue color shift, soft focus, and slight handheld drift that give it a physical home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an underwater insert, travel-memory transition, reef cutaway, or atmospheric bridge within a sequence about Bahamas travel or marine environments.
Historical context: The footage documents a leisure-era underwater view from Nassau, showing marine textures and seafloor forms without visible people, boats, landmarks, or identifiable built environment.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status, source permissions, and any location-specific use requirements should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1961 Nassau Bahamas 8mm underwater footage, vintage ocean floor home movie, sea urchins and coral rocks, and early 1960s marine travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent underwater shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Nassau travel footage, then broader 1960s home-movie ocean, reef, and marine-life material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Nassau 8mm underwater view of a murky seafloor with dark coral or rock forms and visible film frame borders. — Murky underwater seafloor with dark reef-like forms near the frame edge.

1961 Nassau home-movie frame showing a hazy underwater seafloor with dark urchin-like or rock shapes in green-blue water. — Soft, green-blue underwater frame with shadowy marine forms over pale seabed.

1961 Nassau 8mm frame of the ocean floor with dark sea urchin-like forms, pale sand or rock, and suspended particles. — Sea urchin-like dark forms appear over a pale, hazy ocean floor.

1961 Nassau underwater home-movie frame showing a pale seafloor, dark urchin-like shapes, and green-blue film color shift. — Dark rounded marine shapes sit against a pale seafloor in hazy water.

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