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About 27,000 swimming and water clips, peaking hard in the 1960s, when the backyard pool and the home camera reached the same suburbs at the same time.
Above-ground pools and public ones, lakes and garden hoses, kids cannonballing while a parent films from a lawn chair. California and New York lead, almost all on 8mm and 16mm.
60 archival clips matching “Swimming & Water Fun”
Swimming footage suits summer and nostalgia campaigns, family and childhood documentaries, and period scenes that need a real backyard pool of the era. The cannonball and the poolside-crowd shots are the workhorses.
The 1950s are public-pool and a little formal, in early color. The 1960s, the peak, move into the backyard as above-ground pools spread. The 1970s warm up and loosen, the swimsuits smaller and the color softer.
