Boston USA-1975: Backyard Pool with Fence

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationBoston, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Backyard Pool with Fence — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Boston, USA, in 1975, showing a backyard swimming pool with a distinct blue-purple color cast typical of old film. The camera pans across the pool area, revealing a wooden fence with a white life preserver mounted on it, a small potted shrub, and a patio table. A child's yellow toy is visible near a shed in the final frame. The grainy, slightly overexposed quality and film edge borders evoke a nostalgic, authentic 1970s home movie feel, perfect for period documentaries or retro-themed projects.

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: 121089066

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1975 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Boston, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Archival 1970s Boston home-movie footage for productions needing a quiet backyard pool cutaway, domestic summer insert, or period family-environment establishing detail.
Period detail: The wooden privacy fence, above-ground patio objects, life preserver, pool edge, and color-shifted 8mm look may show mid-1970s domestic leisure details without identifying a specific household.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie perspective, with the camera panning across an empty backyard pool area as if casually recording the family setting between activities.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling blue pool water, a wooden fence, a mounted white life preserver, trimmed shrubs, poolside hoses or mats, a small table or chair, a shed edge, and a yellow toy near the pool area.
Film character: The footage carries a blue-purple color cast, soft focus, visible grain, slight overexposure, frame-edge darkness, and handheld panning consistent with aged 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or memory beat for suburban summer, backyard recreation, or non-people domestic atmosphere in a 1970s sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects private backyard leisure and poolside domestic space in the Boston area during the 1970s, based on supplied metadata and visible home-movie context.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still distinguish footage copyright from any property-release or location-identification considerations.
Research search match: Useful researcher phrases include 1970s Boston backyard pool 8mm, vintage home movie swimming pool fence, suburban summer pool cutaway, and Super 8 domestic backyard footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Boston or 1975 home-movie material, then broader 1970s backyard, pool, family leisure, or suburban domestic exterior footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 Boston 8mm frame showing rippling backyard pool water, a wooden fence, a mounted white life preserver, shrubs, and dark film-edge borders. — Backyard pool and fence with life preserver.

1975 Boston home-movie frame with blue-purple pool water, wooden fence, centered life preserver, shrubs, and a dark object along the pool edge. — Poolside fence with mounted life preserver.

1975 Boston 8mm frame during a pan across a backyard pool, with rippling water, a long wooden fence, shrubs, and a partially visible life preserver at left. — Panning view across the backyard pool fence.

1975 Boston home-movie frame showing the pool corner, wooden fence, shrubs, a small poolside table or chair, a shed edge, and a yellow toy near the right side. — Pool corner with fence, patio object, and toy.

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