South Dakota USA-1954: Swimming Woman in Bathing Cap, Classic Car on Hillside

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Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationSouth Dakota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1954 South Dakota

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Swimming Woman in Bathing Cap, Classic Car on Hillside — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1954 in South Dakota, capturing a woman in a light-colored bathing cap swimming in a lake, her hands near her face in a moment of surprise or laughter. The scene shifts to a classic 1950s sedan parked on a grassy hill overlooking the water, with people relaxing on the shore. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color fading, and warm orange and blue tonal shifts, evoking a nostalgic, candid summer day by the lake.

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: 122626385

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1954 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: South Dakota, 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

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: Useful for 1950s U.S. home-movie requests needing lakeside recreation, casual swimming, and summer leisure material from South Dakota.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1950s leisure details through bathing attire, a light swim cap, and a dark rounded sedan parked above a lake or beach area.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the candid, unstaged feel of swimmers relaxing, a woman reacting in the water, and the camera briefly noticing the parked car and shoreline.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include lake water, a woman in a bathing cap, sandy shore, swimmers, grassy hillside, trees, a parked dark sedan, and warm film flare.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, handheld framing, color fading, and orange-blue exposure shifts that support its home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for mid-century summer recreation, family travel, or lakeside vacation sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents informal outdoor recreation and automobile-era vacationing without identifying the specific lake, family, or event shown.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or music are evident, and copyright clearance is separate from personal rights.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1950s South Dakota lake swimming, 8mm home movie beach, bathing cap woman, classic car hillside, and family vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with South Dakota 1954 footage, and then with related 1950s lake, beach, swimming, or road-trip scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1954 South Dakota home-movie footage, a woman in a pale bathing cap reacts while standing chest-deep in lake water. — Woman in a bathing cap reacts while swimming in the lake.

A dark 1950s-style sedan sits on a grassy rise above a lakeside swimming area in South Dakota home-movie footage. — Classic sedan parked above people relaxing by the shore.

People relax on a sandy lakeshore below a grassy hillside, with soft focus and orange film flare from the 8mm scan. — Swimmers and beachgoers resting on the sandy shore.

Two beachgoers remain near the lakeshore as the frame shifts warm orange, showing the home-movie film character clearly. — Beachgoers on the sand as the shot fades into warm color shift.

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