Seaside New Jersey USA-1949: Woman Swims While Man Watches on Shore, Seaside

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

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Woman Swims While Man Watches on Shore, Seaside — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Seaside, New Jersey, 1949, showing a woman wading and swimming in turquoise ocean water. The grainy, color-bleached film captures splashing waves and a swimmer in a dark swimsuit, with a man briefly visible on the shore against a backdrop of trees and distant hills. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with natural light, film grain, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic summer memory from the late 1940s.

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: 120777846

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 home-movie clip can support archive requests for mid-century American summer recreation, swimming, and informal seaside or lake leisure scenes in documentary or memory-sequence edits.
Period detail: The visible bathing caps, simple swimsuits, saturated color stock, and handheld 8mm framing may show late-1940s recreational swim culture consistent with the supplied Seaside, New Jersey metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged vacation behavior as swimmers move through shallow turquoise water while the camera follows casually from a close shoreline or poolside vantage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling blue-green water, swimmers in caps and dark swimwear, splashes, partial bodies at the water surface, a shirtless man near the edge, trees, and distant hills or shoreline.
Film character: The footage has a soft 8mm color look with visible grain, mild fading, handheld instability, motion blur, and uneven exposure that give it recognizable home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief summer insert, water cutaway, transitional memory beat, or period recreation detail between broader vacation or seaside sequences.
Historical context: The footage reflects casual mid-century leisure around swimming and wading, showing ordinary people rather than a staged public event or identifiable landmark.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed separately from copyright research, with no visible logos or private property apparent in these frames.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1940s 8mm swimming home movie, Seaside New Jersey vacation footage, vintage woman wading in water, and mid-century summer recreation film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with other 1949 Seaside or New Jersey water recreation clips, and then with broader vintage swimming and summer vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In this 1949 Seaside, New Jersey home-movie frame, a swimmer is partly submerged in rippling blue-green water with soft focus and visible film grain. — Swimmer moving through turquoise water.

A mostly water-filled 1949 home-movie frame shows turquoise ripples and a partial swimmer or figure entering from the right edge. — Water surface with partial swimmer at edge.

A woman wearing a red swim cap and dark swimsuit appears to wade in blue-green water in the supplied 1949 Seaside, New Jersey footage. — Woman wading in swim cap.

A shirtless man stands near the water in the 1949 Seaside, New Jersey home-movie footage, with dark trees and hazy distant hills or shoreline behind him. — Man near water and distant shoreline.

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