Yonkers New York-1953: Child Swimming Across Backyard Pool

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

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Child Swimming Across Backyard Pool — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a child swimming across a backyard pool in Yonkers, New York. The footage shows the swimmer moving from one side to the other, with water splashing and sunlight reflecting off the blue surface. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus are characteristic of mid-century home movies. The swimmer wears a dark swimsuit, and the pool's edge is visible in the frame. This nostalgic clip offers authentic archival footage of a summer pastime, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or vintage-themed 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: 123359227

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: Supports requests for 1950s American home-movie footage of backyard swimming, pool recreation, and summer leisure for documentary or editorial use.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century domestic pool recreation, with the 1953 Yonkers date and 8mm source format supplied by clip metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value is a home-movie view of one swimmer crossing a pool while the camera observes splashing water from above.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue pool water, a swimmer, bright surface reflections, a pale pool edge, metal railings, heavy frame borders, and contact-sheet divisions.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, soft focus, blue color shift, uneven exposure, and gate-edge darkness that read as original physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short summer-memory insert, recreational cutaway, family-life beat, or transition into mid-century leisure material.
Historical context: The footage reflects private recreational swimming as seen through a family-film perspective, without visible public landmarks or identifying signage.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness and any pool-property context should be reviewed separately from copyright or stock licensing status.
Research search match: Useful search phrasing includes 1953 8mm home movie swimming pool, Yonkers New York backyard pool, vintage swimmer crossing pool, and mid-century summer recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1953 Yonkers material, then broader 1950s home-movie swimming or summer leisure clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame showing a swimmer partly submerged in blue pool water, seen through soft 8mm grain and dark gate edges. — A swimmer is partly obscured by moving pool water and reflected sunlight.

1953 Yonkers pool frame with rippling blue water, glare on the surface, and a pale pool edge visible along one side. — Rippling water fills the frame beside the pale edge of the swimming pool.

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame showing a swimmer moving near the pool edge, with splashes, railings, and heavy 8mm frame borders. — The swimmer moves through the water near the pool edge and metal railings.

1953 Yonkers pool frame showing a swimmer from behind moving across blue water near a pale pool edge and metal railing. — The swimmer continues across the pool as water ripples around them.

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