Yonkers New York-1953: Girl Swimming Freestyle Stroke in Pool, Yonkers

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

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Girl Swimming Freestyle Stroke in Pool, Yonkers — Clip Details

A young girl swims vigorously through a pool in this 8mm home movie from Yonkers, New York, 1953. Shot on vintage 8mm film, the clip captures her freestyle stroke with visible splashing and movement through the blue water. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, conveying a nostalgic, authentic feel of mid-century American youth activity. The scene is a candid moment of effort and determination, preserved in archival home movie style.

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: 123359085

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 American home-movie requests needing youth swimming, pool recreation, or summer activity footage for documentary, education, or memory-sequence edits.
Period detail: The clip is supported as Yonkers, New York, 1953, with visible mid-century home-movie pool imagery but few frame-specific era markers beyond the 8mm color film look.
Home-movie behavior: The swimmer moves vigorously through the water in an unstaged home-movie view, emphasizing effort, splashing, and everyday recreational activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue swimming pool, one swimmer, splashing water, freestyle arm motion, a contact-sheet frame layout, soft focus, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a physical 8mm texture with visible grain, color shift, soft focus, exposure variation, and motion blur from fast movement in water.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century recreation, childhood activity, summer leisure, or swimming practice sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects private home-movie documentation of pool recreation in the early 1950s, showing one swimmer rather than a formal competition or public event.
Research note: People and a face are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright status is separate from privacy or publicity considerations.
Research search match: Searches such as 1950s 8mm swimming pool, Yonkers home movie swimmer, vintage girl swimming, and mid-century pool recreation may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Yonkers or 1953 home movies, then broader 1950s swimming, pool, youth recreation, and summer leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A swimmer faces the camera while moving through blue pool water in supported 1953 Yonkers 8mm home-movie footage. — The swimmer approaches through the pool with small splashes around the shoulders.

A swimmer moves across the blue pool with an extended arm and blurred splashes in supported 1953 Yonkers home-movie footage. — The swimmer crosses the frame with an arm outstretched during a vigorous stroke.

The swimmer is mostly submerged as splashes break across the blue pool surface in the 1953 Yonkers 8mm home-movie scene. — A burst of water partially obscures the swimmer during the stroke.

A young swimmer faces the camera with arms spread in blue pool water in supported 1953 Yonkers 8mm home-movie footage. — The swimmer lifts both arms through the water while facing the camera.

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