Yonkers New York-1953: A Child Is Practising Swimming In The Pool

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

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A Child Is Practising Swimming In The Pool — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a young child practicing swimming in a backyard pool. The footage shows the child's arms and legs moving through the blue water, creating ripples and splashes. The swimmer wears a dark blue swimsuit, and the water's surface reflects sunlight, giving it a shimmering, turquoise hue. The film exhibits natural grain and slight color fading typical of mid-century home movies, with a handheld camera angle that follows the child's movements. This nostalgic clip offers authentic archival footage of a summer pastime, ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

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: 123359792

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 productions needing a brief archival insert of childhood swimming practice in suburban Yonkers, New York.
Period detail: The dark swimsuit, backyard-pool setting, and saturated blue 8mm color may show a mid-century family recreation scene without visible landmarks or dated signage.
Home-movie behavior: The swimmer is filmed at close range from above the water as they kick and move through the pool, giving the clip an unstaged family-observation quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue pool water, splashing surface ripples, a swimmer in a dark blue suit, submerged arms and legs, pool-edge shadows, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, blue-green color shift, gate marks, and handheld framing that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short childhood-summer cutaway, memory beat, recreation insert, or transition between family leisure scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents private family recreation and swimming practice in a residential pool context, with no visible public event, landmark, or institutional setting.
Research note: People are visible and a child is indicated by the clip metadata, so likeness and minor-use review should be separate from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s 8mm child swimming, Yonkers home movie pool, vintage backyard swimming practice, and mid-century summer family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1953 Yonkers material, then related 1950s home-movie swimming or summer recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame showing a swimmer partly hidden by splashing blue pool water during practice. — A swimmer moves through the pool as splashes obscure much of the body.

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame with a swimmer in a dark blue swimsuit moving through sunlit pool water. — The swimmer kicks forward near the water surface in a dark blue swimsuit.

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame showing the swimmer mostly underwater, with limbs blurred by turquoise pool water. — The swimmer is mostly underwater, with an extended arm and kicking legs visible.

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame with the swimmer partly visible underwater near the right edge of the pool view. — The swimmer passes through the right side of the frame beneath the water.

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