Yonkers New York-1953: Young Girl Swimming in Backyard Pool

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

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Young Girl Swimming in Backyard Pool — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a young girl swimming in a backyard pool. The footage shows her moving through the water with a freestyle stroke, her dark hair and limbs visible beneath the blue-tinted surface. The grainy, high-contrast image and slight camera shake reflect the authentic feel of a personal 1950s home movie. The scene evokes a sense of carefree summer joy and nostalgic youth, with the girl fully immersed in the moment. This archival footage offers a rare glimpse into mid-century domestic leisure and family life.

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: 123359506

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 home-movie requests needing domestic summer leisure, backyard pool activity, or childhood swimming as editorial texture.
Period detail: The blue-tinted 8mm footage may show mid-century domestic recreation, with no visible landmarks or objects that independently identify Yonkers.
Home-movie behavior: The swimmer appears relaxed and unposed, moving through the pool while the camera observes from a family home-movie perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swimmer, blue pool water, splashes, submerged limbs, dark hair, frame edges, and heavy 8mm grain.
Film character: The clip has dense grain, high contrast, soft focus, blue color cast, and slight handheld instability typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, summer cutaway, childhood insert, or transition within a family-life sequence.
Historical context: The scene supports a visual note on mid-century family leisure and backyard swimming without making broader claims beyond the home-movie setting.
Research note: People and a visible face require likeness review; copyright, privacy, and any property considerations should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm home movie swimming pool, Yonkers New York family footage, girl swimming, and vintage summer recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Yonkers or 1953 material, then broader 1950s family leisure and swimming scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1953 Yonkers home-movie footage, a swimmer moves through blue pool water with face, hair, shoulders, and splashes visible. — A swimmer surfaces in the pool as water splashes around the head and shoulders.

The swimmer turns across the pool surface in a soft, grainy frame.

A submerged figure moves below the blue pool surface in the 1953 Yonkers home movie, softened by water, grain, and motion blur. — The swimmer passes underwater, partly obscured by ripples and motion blur.

The swimmer is seen mostly underwater in the 1953 Yonkers pool footage, with hair, arm movement, and blue rippling water visible. — Underwater movement fills the frame as the swimmer crosses through the blue pool.

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