Seaside New Jersey USA-1949: People Swimming In The Pool

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

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People Swimming In The Pool — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Seaside, New Jersey, 1949, showing people swimming in a pool. A man swims freestyle through the turquoise water, while a woman in a white swim cap and dark swimsuit watches from the side. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, capturing a nostalgic summer day at a seaside resort. The scene reflects mid-century American leisure and family life.

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: 120776525

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.

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: 1949 8mm home-movie pool footage from Seaside, New Jersey, suited to documentary or museum sequences about mid-century American summer leisure and resort recreation.
Period detail: The visible swim cap, dark one-piece swimsuit, outdoor pool setting, and metadata-supported 1949 date place the clip within late-1940s seaside leisure, though no landmark or resort name is identifiable in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value in the casual way swimmers move through the pool while another person watches from the edge or shallow water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include turquoise pool water, a freestyle swimmer, splashing arms, a woman in a white swim cap, a dark swimsuit, pool-edge color, and soft background water movement.
Film character: The 8mm image carries dense grain, muted color, mild exposure shifts, handheld framing, and motion blur that read as physical-film texture from a home-movie source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief summer insert, memory beat, or cutaway between broader scenes of New Jersey seaside travel and mid-century family recreation.
Historical context: The footage visually reflects informal postwar American leisure around a swimming pool without identifying the people, facility, or occasion beyond the supplied Seaside, New Jersey metadata.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed, while no logos, audible music, or clearly identifiable private property appear in the provided frames; copyright and personality rights should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1940s 8mm swimming pool home movie, Seaside New Jersey 1949 pool footage, vintage American resort swimming, and mid-century summer leisure film.
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 swimming, resort, beach, or family-leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In metadata-supported Seaside, New Jersey, 1949, a swimmer moves across turquoise pool water in soft, grainy 8mm home-movie footage. — Swimmer crossing the pool water.

A woman in a white swim cap and dark swimsuit watches in the pool while another swimmer splashes nearby in 1949 Seaside, New Jersey home-movie footage. — Swim-capped woman watching from the pool.

The swim-capped woman remains near the pool edge as bubbles and turquoise water fill the frame in this 1949 Seaside, New Jersey 8mm shot. — Woman near the pool edge.

Profile of a swim-capped woman in the pool.

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