Yonkers New York-1953: Woman Swimming Breaststroke in Pool

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

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Woman Swimming Breaststroke in Pool — Clip Details

A young woman swims the breaststroke in a pool, captured on 8mm film in 1953. The footage shows her gliding through clear blue water, her arms extending forward and her head emerging for breath. Shot from above, the clip highlights the rhythmic motion of her stroke and the ripples on the water's surface. The image has a distinct vintage quality with grain, color fading, and soft focus typical of home movies from the era. The scene evokes a sense of leisure and nostalgia, showcasing a moment of recreation from mid-century America.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123360154

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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, swimming, recreation, and home-movie inserts needing a brief pool scene with a visible swimmer.
Period detail: The clip is supported as 1953 Yonkers footage, while the frames themselves mainly show mid-century color 8mm pool imagery without visible landmarks or dated signage.
Home-movie behavior: The swimmer appears absorbed in an ordinary recreational moment, filmed from nearby as she moves through the water rather than posing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue pool water, surface ripples, a swimmer doing breaststroke, brief facial views, underwater arms, film-frame borders, and scan seam artifacts.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, mild fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that give it recognizable home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, memory beat, or transitional insert for summer recreation, swimming lessons, family leisure, or mid-century youth activity.
Historical context: The scene reflects private recreational swimming in postwar American home-movie footage, with the pool setting and camera angle emphasizing everyday leisure rather than a public event.
Research note: A visible person and partial face require likeness review; no logos or private property are evident, and copyright clearance should be assessed separately from personality rights.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s 8mm swimming pool footage, Yonkers New York home movie swimmer, vintage breaststroke pool scene, and mid-century summer recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other 1953 Yonkers material, then related pool, swimming, summer recreation, or youth sports home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Yonkers 8mm frame showing rippled blue pool water, with no clear swimmer visible in this moment. — Rippling blue pool water fills the opening frame.

1953 Yonkers 8mm frame with a swimmer's head above rippled blue pool water during a breaststroke sequence. — The swimmer surfaces amid ripples during the stroke.

1953 Yonkers 8mm frame showing a swimmer close to the camera, face partly visible as arms move through the pool. — A close view catches the swimmer mid-stroke.

1953 Yonkers 8mm frame showing an underwater arm and body movement in clear blue pool water near the end of the stroke. — An underwater glimpse shows the swimmer's arm passing through the pool.

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