Seaside New Jersey USA-1949: Summer Fun Vacation Water

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

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Summer Fun Vacation Water — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Seaside, New Jersey, 1949, capturing a sunny summer day at a residential pool. The clip shows a woman in a white swim cap floating on a ring, followed by a man swimming and relaxing in the turquoise water. The scene features classic 1940s poolside elements, including lounge chairs and a ladder, with natural sunlight creating ripples on the water's surface. The film exhibits authentic grain and color saturation typical of 8mm home movies from the era, offering a nostalgic glimpse into 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: 120776734

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 (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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1949 8mm Seaside, New Jersey pool scene supports archival requests for mid-century American summer leisure, vacation recreation, and home-movie evidence of informal swimming and relaxation.
Period detail: The swim cap, inflatable ring, metal pool ladder, lounge chairs, and saturated 8mm color may show late-1940s recreational pool details in a New Jersey seaside vacation setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal home-movie observation of adults floating, swimming, and resting in the water without staged performance or direct address to the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include turquoise pool water, a white swim cap, an inflatable ring, a swimming man, pool coping, lounge chairs, a ladder, and sunlight ripples across the surface.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, muted color shifts, and slightly uneven exposure that give the pool water and moving figures a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, memory beat, or transitional insert for 1940s summer vacation, swimming, seaside leisure, or family recreation sequences.
Historical context: The footage offers a modest visual record of postwar American leisure culture through a private vacation pool scene, while the frames alone do not identify the people or exact property.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright review, and no logos are apparent in the supplied frames.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1949 8mm Seaside New Jersey swimming pool, 1940s home movie summer vacation, vintage pool leisure footage, and mid-century adults swimming.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1949 Seaside, New Jersey material, and then with broader 1940s summer vacation or swimming-pool home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 Seaside, New Jersey 8mm frame showing turquoise pool water, curved coping, and indistinct poolside furniture in bright outdoor light. — Pool water and curved edge at the start of the scene.

1949 Seaside, New Jersey vacation footage shows a woman in a white swim cap floating on an inflatable ring near the curved pool edge. — Woman floating in the pool on a ring.

1949 Seaside, New Jersey 8mm frame with a woman in a white swim cap partly visible at the lower edge as the pool surface fills most of the view. — Partially framed swimmer in the pool.

1949 Seaside, New Jersey home-movie frame showing a man in the pool near the far edge, with rippled water and pool coping behind him. — Man swimming near the pool edge.

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