Seaside New Jersey USA-1949: Man Relaxing by Pool and Child Swimming with Float

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

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Man Relaxing by Pool and Child Swimming with Float — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Seaside, New Jersey, 1949, showing a man relaxing in a folding chair by a backyard swimming pool. He wears dark swim trunks and sits shirtless on a white lawn chair, with flowers and a small table visible in the background. The scene transitions to a child swimming in the pool, wearing a white swim cap and using a red inflatable ring for support. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, capturing authentic 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: 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: 120777953

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s 8mm home-movie poolside leisure footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences about mid-century American family recreation.
Period detail: The folding lawn chair, swim trunks, swim cap, inflatable ring, and color 8mm home-movie texture support a late-1940s domestic leisure setting in Seaside, New Jersey.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged family-view perspective, moving from an adult relaxing beside the pool to a swimmer using an inflatable ring in the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a shirtless man in dark swim trunks, a white folding chair, pool edge, small side table, flowers, blue-green pool water, a white swim cap, and a red inflatable ring.
Film character: Soft focus, uneven exposure, color fading, gate weave, and visible grain give the footage a physical 8mm home-movie character suited to archive-led storytelling.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, leisure cutaway, or transitional insert between broader scenes of summer travel, family recreation, or seaside vacation life.
Historical context: The footage visually documents private poolside recreation and family swimming at a moment when home movies commonly recorded ordinary leisure rather than formal public events.
Research note: People are visible and at least one swimmer may be a minor, so likeness and possible private-property considerations should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1940s 8mm pool footage, Seaside New Jersey home movie, vintage family swimming, mid-century backyard pool, and child with inflatable swim ring.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1949 Seaside, New Jersey footage, and then with broader 1940s family vacation or swimming-pool material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Seaside, New Jersey, 1949, a shirtless man in dark swim trunks sits in a white folding chair near the edge of a backyard swimming pool. — Man relaxing beside the pool.

A man sits back in a white folding lawn chair beside the pool, with flowers and a small table visible in the background of this 1949 Seaside home movie frame. — Poolside chair and garden detail.

A swimmer, likely a child based on scale and metadata, wears a white swim cap and holds a red inflatable ring in the blue-green pool water in Seaside, New Jersey, 1949. — Swimmer using an inflatable ring.

The swimmer turns forward in the pool with the red inflatable ring partly submerged, leaving splashing water and motion blur across the 8mm frame. — Swimmer turning in the pool.

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