Yonkers New York-1953: Person Swimming in Pool

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

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Person Swimming in Pool — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a person swimming in a backyard pool in Yonkers, New York. The swimmer, wearing a dark swimsuit, moves through the turquoise water with a freestyle stroke, their arms extending and pulling through the surface. The footage shows the pool's white coping and a depth marker, with another person partially visible at the edge. The image has the characteristic grain, color shift, and soft focus of mid-century amateur film, evoking a nostalgic, sun-drenched summer day.

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: 123360210

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s home-movie requests needing suburban summer swimming, backyard leisure, or pool recreation footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The 8mm color home-movie look, dark one-piece swimsuit, pool coping, and simple depth marking support a mid-century recreational setting in Yonkers, New York.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged swimmer moving across a pool while another person remains near the edge, giving the scene casual family-leisure value.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include turquoise pool water, a swimmer in a dark swimsuit, white pool coping, a depth marker, partial poolside figure, water ripples, and film gate edges.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, color shift, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing give the footage the texture of scanned 1950s amateur 8mm film.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief insert, summer memory beat, recreation cutaway, or transition within sequences about leisure, family life, swimming, or postwar suburbia.
Historical context: The scene shows private recreational swimming as captured by a home-movie camera, with social context limited to visible poolside leisure rather than any broader claim.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos or music are apparent, but copyright, privacy, and property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm swimming pool footage, Yonkers home movie pool scene, vintage backyard swimming, mid-century summer leisure, and archival family recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1953 Yonkers material, then related 1950s home-movie scenes of pools, summer leisure, and family recreation.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Yonkers 8mm frame showing a swimmer in a dark swimsuit crossing turquoise pool water with soft focus and visible film grain. — A swimmer moves across the pool surface, seen from above in a home-movie frame.

1953 Yonkers pool frame with a swimmer near white coping and a partially visible poolside person at the right edge. — The swimmer nears the pool edge while another person appears partially in frame.

1953 Yonkers 8mm frame showing a swimmer partly submerged in blue-green pool water, arm extended through ripples. — A partly submerged swimmer extends an arm through the rippling pool water.

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame showing a swimmer in a dark swimsuit gliding through blue pool water with one arm extended. — The swimmer continues across the pool, captured in soft, grainy 8mm color.

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