New Mexico USA-1953: Backyard with Swimming Pool and House

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationNew Mexico, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 New Mexico

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Backyard with Swimming Pool and House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched backyard scene in New Mexico. The clip features a swimming pool with a wooden diving board and metal ladder, surrounded by a concrete deck. A small yellow stucco house with a red tile roof and white shutters stands in the background, flanked by palm trees and manicured shrubs. Classic mid-century lawn chairs and a blue trash can add to the period detail. The footage exhibits natural film grain and rich, slightly faded colors characteristic of 1950s home movies, offering authentic archival material for nostalgic or historical projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123348053

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 1929 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: ranch shearing,mrs gt watts,
Reel-level year note: 1953
Reel-level location note: roswell new mexico
Date: 1953 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: New Mexico, 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: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing a quiet domestic backyard, swimming pool, or Southwestern leisure cutaway from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The stucco house, red tile roof, metal pool ladder, wooden diving board, lawn chairs, palms, and bright patio colors may show mid-century residential leisure styling.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, holding on the pool and house as a casual record of a sunny backyard rather than a directed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swimming pool, concrete deck, wooden diving board, metal ladder, yellow stucco house, red tile roof, shutters, lawn chairs, shrubs, and palm trees.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, high daylight exposure, and small frame-to-frame shifts that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, memory beat, location transition, or domestic leisure cutaway within a 1950s home, travel, or family-history sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for postwar domestic recreation and backyard pool culture, while staying limited to what this private-looking residential setting shows.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the visible residence and pool setting may still need copyright, property, and source-rights review.
Research search match: Search matches include 1953 New Mexico 8mm backyard pool, 1950s home movie swimming pool, mid-century stucco house, and vintage domestic leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1953 New Mexico home-movie material, then similar 1950s residential pool or backyard scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 New Mexico 8mm frame showing a backyard pool, concrete deck, stucco house with red tile roof, palms, chairs, and shrubs. — A backyard pool and stucco house sit in bright sun, with patio chairs, palms, and a metal pool ladder visible.

1953 New Mexico backyard view with pool edge, diving board, metal ladder, stucco house, yellow chairs, palms, shrubs, and a parked car. — The camera frames the pool deck and house, with a diving board entering the foreground and a parked car partly visible beyond the shrubs.

1953 New Mexico home-movie frame of a backyard pool with diving board, metal ladder, stucco house, palms, shrubs, chairs, and blue bin. — The pool and diving board dominate the foreground while the stucco house, garden planting, and patio chairs line the background.

1953 New Mexico backyard pool scene with diving board over water, stucco house, palms, yellow chair, shrubs, blue bin, and parked car. — A diving board extends over the pool water, with the house, palms, chairs, shrubs, and a parked car in the sunlit background.

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