New Mexico USA-1953: Backyard Pool With Diving Board And Classic Car

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

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Backyard Pool With Diving Board And Classic Car — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched backyard pool in New Mexico. The footage shows a rectangular pool with a wooden diving board and metal ladder, surrounded by a concrete deck. In the background, a yellow house, lush green lawn, palm trees, and a classic 1950s car are visible. Yellow and red lawn chairs sit near the pool, and a blue umbrella provides shade. The warm, slightly faded colors and film grain evoke a nostalgic mid-century American summer, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic 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: 123348090

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 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 American home-movie requests needing a suburban backyard pool, leisure setting, or mid-century summer cutaway for documentary and editorial sequences.
Period detail: The frames show 1950s clues including an 8mm color home-movie look, a backyard pool with diving board, lawn furniture, palm planting, and a dark classic car in the background.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes a family or guest leisure setting from across the pool, with people seated in the yard rather than posed for a formal portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rectangular swimming pool, wooden diving board, metal ladder, concrete deck, yellow house, palm trees, lawn chairs, blue umbrella, and a dark classic car.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, slight softness, warm faded color, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that give it clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, summer-memory transition, suburban leisure cutaway, or visual bridge into mid-century family life.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for postwar American domestic leisure, showing a private-looking yard arranged around swimming, shade, chairs, lawn, and car access.
Research note: People appear in the background, so likeness review may be needed; copyright status, location permissions, and any property concerns should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm backyard swimming pool footage, New Mexico home movie pool scene, mid-century lawn chairs, diving board, and classic car background.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1953 New Mexico home movies, then broader 1950s backyard, swimming, summer leisure, or family travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 New Mexico 8mm frame showing a backyard pool, wooden diving board, metal ladder, yellow house, lawn, planting, and dark classic car. — Backyard pool with diving board and a classic car beyond the lawn.

1953 New Mexico home-movie frame with the pool and diving board foregrounded, with lawn furniture, a house, planting, and classic car behind. — Poolside view with diving board, garden furniture, and car in the background.

1953 New Mexico 8mm frame showing a wider poolside yard with a classic car, house, palm tree, lawn chairs, and distant seated people. — Wider view across the pool toward lawn chairs, a house, and seated figures.

1953 New Mexico home-movie frame showing the pool, blue umbrella, lawn chairs, palm planting, house, and distant adults seated near the deck. — Pool, umbrella, and lawn chairs with distant seated people beside the yard.

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