Seaside New Jersey USA-1949: In The Mountains Overlooking A Swimming Pool And

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

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In The Mountains Overlooking A Swimming Pool And — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Seaside, New Jersey, 1949, showing a retro neon sign for a swimming pool against a twilight sky. The camera pans down to reveal a building roof with textured shingles, palm fronds in the foreground, and distant mountains under a purple-hued sky. The grainy, color-bleached aesthetic captures classic mid-century Americana nostalgia, with a focus on a resort-style property and its desert-like surroundings.

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, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120776645

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 (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: Seaside, New Jersey, United States 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: Useful for 1940s home-movie requests needing a brief resort or poolside property cutaway with signage, rooflines, palms, and distant mountains for documentary, educational, or editorial use.
Period detail: The visible swimming pool sign, low resort-style buildings, palm planting, and color 8mm texture may show mid-century leisure-property design, with the 1949 date supported by the supplied clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, briefly reframing from a pool sign toward rooftops and landscape rather than staging people or formal activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swimming pool sign, striped sign structure, roof shingles, chimney vents, palm fronds, dark window openings, utility poles or sign posts, and purple-toned mountain slopes.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, muted color shifts, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture from an original film scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, travel-memory transition, resort cutaway, or atmospheric bridge between pool, holiday, or roadside lodging material.
Historical context: The frames suggest a leisure or resort setting where pool signage and landscaped buildings are set against a mountainous backdrop, without visible guests or identifiable activity.
Research note: No people are visible, but the readable pool sign and exterior property details suggest brand, sign, copyright, and possible property-context review before commercial or sensitive use.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under searches for 1949 8mm resort footage, swimming pool sign home movie, mid-century pool property, mountain resort rooftops, or vintage color home-movie cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Seaside New Jersey 1949 material if verified, and then with broader mid-century pool, resort, rooftop, or mountain-travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A 1949 8mm frame, identified by metadata as Seaside, New Jersey, showing part of a swimming pool sign and its striped support against distant purple-toned mountains. — Partial swimming pool sign with mountain backdrop.

A color 8mm frame from the supplied 1949 clip showing a sloped building roof, palm fronds, a vertical post, and distant mountains under a purple cast. — Roofline and palm fronds below distant mountains.

A 1949 home-movie frame showing a broad shingled roof with small vents, palm fronds at the lower edge, and hazy purple mountains beyond. — Shingled roof and vents with mountains beyond.

A late frame from the 1949 8mm clip showing a resort-style roofline with vents, palm fronds, dark window or doorway openings, and a purple mountain backdrop. — Roofline, palm planting, and mountain backdrop.

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