Yonkers New York-1953: Girl Swimming Freestyle in Clear Pool

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

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Girl Swimming Freestyle in Clear Pool — Clip Details

A young girl in a dark swimsuit swims forward through clear blue pool water in this 8mm home movie from Yonkers, New York, 1953. Shot from above, the footage captures her gliding through the water, her arms moving in a freestyle stroke, with moments of her head breaking the surface and others submerged. The vintage film exhibits characteristic grain, slight color fading, and a soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, summertime memory. The water's surface ripples with light reflections, and the clip offers both above-water and underwater perspectives of the swimmer's movement.

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: 123359436

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: 1950s 8mm home-movie pool footage for requests needing childhood swimming, summer recreation, or domestic leisure inserts.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century backyard or community pool recreation, with era suggested by the 1953 home-movie metadata and the soft color 8mm look.
Home-movie behavior: A girl swims toward and across the camera in an unstaged home-movie view, alternating between surface strokes and underwater movement.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue pool water, a dark swimsuit, rippling surface reflections, a swimmer's head and arms, underwater haze, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has grainy 8mm texture, soft focus, blue-green color shift, uneven exposure, and brief contact-print framing typical of scanned home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a summer memory beat, childhood recreation cutaway, pool transition, or brief visual insert for family-life sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary leisure swimming in a pool, with visual emphasis on movement through water rather than identifiable setting or public event.
Research note: People and a visible face require likeness review, and the apparent child swimmer should be checked separately from copyright or source-film permissions.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s 8mm girl swimming pool, vintage home movie underwater swimmer, and Yonkers New York summer pool footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Yonkers or 1953 family footage, then broader 1950s pool, swimming, and summer recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1953 Yonkers home-movie footage, a girl in a dark swimsuit swims near the surface of clear blue pool water. — The swimmer moves across the pool near the surface, partly blurred by ripples.

A girl swims through blue pool water from an overhead 8mm home-movie angle, with her body partly softened by the surface. — The swimmer continues forward as water reflections obscure parts of her body.

The girl swims away from the camera in blue pool water, her head and shoulders visible through ripples in the 1953 home movie. — The swimmer heads farther into the pool, partially obscured by shifting reflections.

A girl faces the camera while swimming in pale blue pool water, with her face visible above the surface in the Yonkers home movie. — The swimmer turns toward the camera with her face briefly visible above the water.

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