Yonkers New York-1953: Black Boy With Short Hair Swimming Breast Stroke Quickly

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationYonkers, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Black Boy With Short Hair Swimming Breast Stroke Quickly — Clip Details

A young boy with short dark hair swims the breaststroke in a pool, captured on 8mm film in 1953. The footage shows him moving through the water with visible splashes and ripples, his arms extending forward and pulling back in a rhythmic motion. The image has a distinct vintage quality with blue-green color tones, film grain, and slight motion blur typical of home movie footage. The scene conveys a sense of youthful energy and recreation, with the swimmer's form clearly visible beneath the water's surface.

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: 123358769

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 1069 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: barlans, bears house,goodmans,bar mitzvah,steve
Reel-level year note: 1953-1954
Reel-level location note: new york city
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: Yonkers, New York, 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 home-movie requests needing youth swimming, pool recreation, or school-age sports activity in Yonkers, New York.
Period detail: The 8mm color and swim scene may show midcentury recreational pool activity, with no visible signage or landmarks to further identify the setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged value in the boy's quick, focused swimming motion as the camera observes from above the pool.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a boy swimming, blue-green pool water, splashes, extended arms, dark swimwear, ripples, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm archival texture through soft focus, blue-green color shift, grain, motion blur, and visible frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, summer recreation cutaway, youth athletics beat, or transition within a midcentury memory sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary pool recreation and youth swimming without visible spectators, facility signage, or competitive markers in the sampled frames.
Research note: People and a likely minor are visible, so likeness and child-use review may be needed in addition to any copyright or source-license checks.
Research search match: Searches such as 1950s boy swimming pool, 8mm youth swimmer, Black child swimming, Yonkers home movie, and vintage breaststroke may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1953 Yonkers footage, then related swimming, pool, youth sports, or summer recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1953 Yonkers home-movie footage, a boy swims quickly through a pool with soft focus, splashing water, and blue-green 8mm color. — A boy moves across the pool surface as splashes obscure part of his face and torso.

The Yonkers 8mm frame shows the boy mid-stroke in a pool, with one arm forward, one arm rising, and choppy water around him. — The swimmer continues his stroke, surrounded by broken water and motion blur.

A top-down 8mm view shows the boy mostly submerged during the swim, with his head and arms partly visible beneath choppy pool water. — The swimmer dips lower in the water while ripples spread around his body.

The boy lifts his face above the water while continuing across the pool.

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