Yonkers New York-1953: Man Swims Butterfly Stroke In Pool With Effort

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

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Man Swims Butterfly Stroke In Pool With Effort — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a man swimming the butterfly stroke in a pool. The footage shows him powering through the water with visible effort, creating splashes as he moves. The swimmer wears a dark swimsuit and a white swim cap, his body rhythmically undulating. The scene is rendered in the characteristic blue-green color palette of aged film, with grain and slight motion blur typical of Super 8 home movies. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century recreation and personal fitness.

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: 123359148

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s home-movie requests needing pool exercise, recreational swimming, or athletic effort footage for documentary, museum, education, or period lifestyle edits.
Period detail: The visible pool setting, dark swim trunks, white cap, and 8mm color stock support a mid-century recreational swimming scene, with Yonkers and 1953 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie view of a swimmer exerting himself through a butterfly stroke, emphasizing movement, splashing water, and casual personal recreation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a male swimmer, blue-green pool water, white swim cap, dark swim trunks, heavy splashes, contact-sheet borders, grain, and motion blur.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries dense grain, blue-green color shift, soft focus, gate edges, dust marks, and motion blur that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, recreation cutaway, athletic effort beat, or memory fragment within a sequence about swimming, leisure, fitness, or family films.
Historical context: The footage may show ordinary mid-century pool recreation and personal fitness, but the frames do not identify the facility, event, or the swimmer by name.
Research note: A recognizable person appears, so likeness and privacy review may be needed separately from copyright status; no visible logos or private interiors appear in these frames.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1953 Yonkers 8mm swimming pool footage, man butterfly stroke home movie, vintage swim exercise, and mid-century recreation film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1953 Yonkers material, then broader 1950s swimming, pool recreation, and personal fitness footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1953 Yonkers home-movie footage, a man swims through a pool with his face visible above splashing blue-green water. — Swimmer surfaces during a forceful stroke in the pool.

The swimmer continues across the pool in a 1953 Yonkers 8mm frame, his body stretched through the water with visible splashing. — The swimmer drives forward through the water mid-stroke.

A 1953 Yonkers pool frame shows the swimmer low in the water, partly hidden by spray and blur from the stroke. — Water spray briefly obscures the swimmer during the stroke.

The swimmer appears from above in the pool, wearing a white cap as he moves through blue-green water in the 1953 Yonkers footage. — White-capped swimmer passes through the final pool frame.

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