Yonkers New York-1953: Young Swimmer Doing Breaststroke

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

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Young Swimmer Doing Breaststroke — Clip Details

A young swimmer in a dark one-piece swimsuit performs the breaststroke in a sunlit pool, captured on 8mm film in 1953. The turquoise water ripples with each stroke, and the swimmer's head emerges rhythmically as they move across the frame. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, with a slightly soft focus and natural light reflections on the water's surface. This authentic home movie moment captures a youth swimmer in action, evoking mid-century American leisure and athletic activity.

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: 123359422

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 leisure or youth swimming sequences needing authentic home-movie pool activity from Yonkers, New York.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century swimwear and outdoor pool recreation, with no visible landmarks or signage confirming place within the image.
Home-movie behavior: The swimmer is filmed informally during repeated breaststroke movement, giving the clip an unstaged family or school-recreation viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swimmer in dark swimwear, turquoise pool water, splashing arms, a raised head, water reflections, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, saturated blue-green water, mild exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, or cutaway for childhood recreation, summer activity, or swimming practice.
Historical context: The clip situates youth swimming within everyday postwar American recreation without showing competition markers, spectators, or named facilities.
Research note: People and a likely minor are visible, so likeness and child-use review may be needed even if copyright status is separately licensed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm home movie swimming pool, child swimmer breaststroke, Yonkers New York recreation footage, and vintage pool activity.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Yonkers or 1953 family footage, and then broader 1950s swimming or summer recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Likely young swimmer in dark swimwear doing breaststroke in a pool, from 1953 Yonkers home-movie footage. — The swimmer moves across the pool with head and shoulders near the waterline.

A likely young swimmer surfaces during breaststroke in a sunlit pool, supported by the Yonkers 1953 clip metadata. — The swimmer’s head rises as their arms move through the water.

Overhead 8mm view of a likely young swimmer continuing breaststroke through turquoise pool water in Yonkers footage. — The swimmer’s body extends diagonally as they continue across the pool.

A likely young swimmer is partly submerged during a breaststroke motion in 1953 Yonkers pool footage. — The swimmer finishes the motion partly underwater with splashes around the arm and torso.

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