Seaside New Jersey USA-1949: Two People in Backyard Swimming Pool

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

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Two People in Backyard Swimming Pool — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Seaside, New Jersey, 1949, showing two people enjoying a sunny afternoon in a residential pool. One person floats on a red inflatable ring while another swims nearby, splashing in the blue water. The scene captures classic mid-century leisure with a swim cap and swimsuit, filmed on grainy, color-graded 8mm film. The pool has a concrete edge and a brick wall in the background, evoking nostalgic Americana. The footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects about 1940s summer 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: 120778004

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: Archival 1940s home-movie pool footage from Seaside, New Jersey, suited to documentary or editorial requests about mid-century summer leisure and private vacation recreation.
Period detail: The swim cap, simple inflatable rings, concrete pool edge, saturated color 8mm texture, and 1949 metadata support a late-1940s leisure setting without identifying a specific venue.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves casual, unstaged swimming and floating behavior, with people drifting, splashing, and adjusting themselves in the water as a home-movie camera observes from poolside.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue pool water, red inflatable swim rings, swimmers in bathing attire, a light swim cap, a concrete coping edge, bright sun reflections, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The footage has a grainy 8mm color look with mild blur, uneven exposure, visible film specks, and handheld framing that gives the scene a tactile home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, summer-memory cutaway, family-vacation transition, or visual beat for postwar leisure without relying on identifiable landmarks.
Historical context: The scene reflects private or residential outdoor recreation in the late 1940s, showing ordinary poolside leisure rather than a staged tourist attraction or public event.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed, while no logos or audible music are evident and copyright clearance remains separate from privacy or property considerations.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1949 8mm swimming pool, Seaside New Jersey home movie, 1940s summer vacation footage, red inflatable ring, and mid-century pool leisure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Seaside or 1949 New Jersey vacation footage, then broader 1940s swimming, family leisure, and summer recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1949 Seaside, New Jersey home-movie frame showing swimmers in a blue pool, including one person wearing a light swim cap while floating on a red inflatable ring. — Swimmers gather in the pool around a red float.

1949 Seaside, New Jersey home-movie frame with a swimmer facing the camera in blue pool water, with red inflatable rings near the pool edge. — A swimmer pauses in the water near pool floats.

1949 Seaside, New Jersey home-movie frame showing a swimmer moving through blue water toward a red inflatable ring near the concrete pool edge. — A swimmer moves across the pool toward a float.

1949 Seaside, New Jersey home-movie frame showing a swimmer near the concrete pool edge with one arm raised to their head in sunlit blue water. — A swimmer raises an arm near the pool edge.

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