Yonkers New York-1953: Woman Swimming in Pool with Head Covering

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

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Woman Swimming in Pool with Head Covering — Clip Details

A woman swims in a pool in this vintage 8mm home movie from Yonkers, New York, 1953. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures her moving through the water with a classic swimsuit and head covering, creating ripples and splashes. The blue-tinted water and grainy film texture evoke a nostalgic, archival feel. The clip shows her from various angles as she exercises, with the pool edge visible in one frame. This authentic 1950s home movie offers a glimpse into mid-century leisure and personal recreation, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 123360345

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: 1950s Yonkers home-movie pool footage suited to archival requests for mid-century recreation, swimming, exercise, or domestic leisure inserts.
Period detail: The swim cap, one-piece swimsuit, pool setting, and 8mm color home-movie texture support a 1953 mid-century leisure context without visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged private recreation moment as a woman swims, treads water, and moves through a pool for the home camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue pool water, a woman swimmer, a white swim cap, dark swimsuit straps, ripples, splashes, pool edge, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, blue color shift, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld 8mm framing that give it authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or transition for sequences about swimming, exercise, summer leisure, or family recreation.
Historical context: The scene shows personal pool recreation in a mid-century American home-movie context, with emphasis on movement and water rather than identifiable location detail.
Research note: A woman is visible and may require likeness review; no logos or brands are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 8mm Yonkers swimming pool footage, 1950s woman swimmer home movie, vintage swim cap, pool exercise, and mid-century leisure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1953 Yonkers home movies, then broader 1950s swimming, summer recreation, or exercise footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1953 Yonkers home-movie footage, a woman in a swimsuit moves through blue pool water, partly softened by grain and exposure. — A woman swims across the pool as water ripples around her.

The woman swims near a pool edge in the Yonkers 1953 home movie, with her head and upper body partly obscured by dark blue water and splash. — The swimmer passes near the pool edge, partly hidden by splash and shadow.

A swimmer moves near the surface of a blue pool in the 1953 Yonkers 8mm footage, seen through soft focus and visible film grain. — The swimmer moves through the frame just below the water surface.

A woman wearing a white swim cap and dark swimsuit faces the camera while treading water in the 1953 Yonkers pool footage. — The woman faces the camera while treading water in a white swim cap.

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