Nassau Bahamas-1961: Little Fishes Swimming In Water Looking For Food

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationNassau, Bahamas
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Nassau Bahamas

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Little Fishes Swimming In Water Looking For Food — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a murky underwater scene in Nassau, Bahamas. The footage shows small fish swimming through greenish, hazy water, likely searching for food. The image is grainy and slightly distorted, with a strong teal-green color cast typical of aged Super 8 film. Dark shapes and bubbles drift through the water, creating a dreamlike, nostalgic underwater atmosphere. This archival clip offers a rare glimpse into marine life from the early 1960s, perfect for historical or documentary projects.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127584025

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: 1961 Nassau home-movie underwater footage for editors needing a brief archival marine-life cutaway or travel-memory insert.
Period detail: The frames may show a visitor's 1961 8mm view through hazy green water, with no visible landmarks, boats, people, or date-specific objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an informal tourist viewpoint, watching small fish drift near the camera rather than presenting a staged wildlife study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include small fish, clouded teal water, dark underwater shadows, bubbles or suspended debris, film gate edges, and soft contact-print framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan has coarse grain, teal color shift, soft focus, uneven exposure, and gate borders that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short underwater insert, travel cutaway, memory beat, or transition into broader Bahamas or marine-life material.
Historical context: The footage gives a modest home-movie view of marine observation in Nassau without documenting a specific site, species, or public event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still evaluate copyright, location context, and any species or environmental claims separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 Nassau Bahamas 8mm underwater fish, vintage home movie marine life, and murky tropical water footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Nassau 1961 travel scenes, then broader vintage underwater or tropical fish material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Nassau 8mm frame showing hazy teal water with small fish shapes, drifting shadows, and visible film gate edges. — Small fish are faintly visible in clouded green water at the start of the clip.

1961 Nassau underwater home-movie frame with teal haze, fish silhouettes, and a pale diagonal edge along the right side. — Fish silhouettes drift through teal, clouded water beside a pale diagonal edge.

1961 Nassau 8mm frame showing several small fish in murky water near a pale foreground edge and dark film borders. — Several small fish gather in the hazy water near the lower edge of the frame.

1961 Nassau underwater frame with small fish clustered in cloudy teal-green water, bordered by visible 8mm film edges. — Fish cluster in the cloudy underwater scene as the 8mm frame shows grain and edge borders.

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