Seaside New Jersey USA-1949: Two Women And A Man Sitting On A Bench Wearing Swimsuits

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationSeaside, New Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1949 Seaside New Jersey

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Two Women And A Man Sitting On A Bench Wearing Swimsuits — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Seaside, New Jersey, 1949, showing three people relaxing on a wooden bench near a picnic table. Two women in white swimsuits and glasses sit beside a shirtless man, capturing a candid moment of mid-century leisure. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, with one woman adjusting her glasses and another smiling toward the camera. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into 1940s seaside vacation culture, 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: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120776490

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1071 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: jody eileen,steves bar mitzvah,barkins bungalows,canada,hotel,puerto rico
Reel-level year note: 1949-1955-1957-1970
Reel-level location note: canada,st. thomas,new jersey, philadephia
Date: 1949 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Seaside, New Jersey, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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: This clip supports requests for late-1940s 8mm seaside leisure footage in New Jersey for documentary inserts, social-history programs, or period vacation sequences.
Period detail: Visible period clues include one-piece swimsuits, eyeglasses, mid-century hairstyles, wooden benches, and patio-style umbrella tables that fit the supplied 1949 home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the relaxed, unstaged bench-side interaction, with adults sitting close together, turning toward one another, adjusting glasses, and acknowledging the camera.
What appears in frame: The frames show swimsuit-clad adults, wooden benches, round umbrella tables, shaded resort structures, bare legs, eyeglasses, and sunlit concrete or boardwalk-like ground.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, warm color, visible grain, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that give it recognizable home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or transition within a sequence about postwar beach vacations, summer tourism, or informal family travel.
Historical context: The scene visually reflects casual adult leisure at a seaside setting, with no visible signage or landmarks to identify a specific boardwalk, hotel, or beach facility beyond the supplied Seaside, New Jersey metadata.
Research note: Faces are visible and may require likeness review depending on use, while no logos, children, audible music, or clearly identifiable private property are visible in the supplied frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1949 New Jersey 8mm beach vacation, Seaside home movie adults in swimsuits, mid-century summer leisure footage, and vintage bench-side resort scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Seaside, New Jersey 1949 material, and then with broader 1940s beach, vacation, swimsuit, and boardwalk leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supplied 1949 Seaside, New Jersey home-movie footage, two women in light swimsuits and a shirtless man sit on a wooden bench near round umbrella tables. — Adults seated on a seaside bench near umbrella tables.

A woman in a white swimsuit and sunglasses sits in bright sun on a wooden bench, with other swimsuit-clad adults partly visible beside her in the Seaside, New Jersey clip. — Woman seated in sun with companions nearby.

Two women seated together on a bench.

A woman in a white swimsuit sits on a wooden bench in bright sun, with another seated woman partly visible and a round umbrella table behind them in the Seaside, New Jersey footage. — Woman in white swimsuit seated beside companion.

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