Yonkers New York-1953: Swimming Girl Makes It To Edge Of Pool

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

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Swimming Girl Makes It To Edge Of Pool — Clip Details

A young girl in a dark swimsuit and white swim cap swims in a backyard pool, captured on 8mm film in 1953. The footage shows her moving through the water, creating ripples and splashes, with the pool edge visible in the frame. The image has a distinct blue tint and grainy texture characteristic of vintage home movies. The clip captures a candid moment of summer recreation, with the girl eventually reaching the pool's edge. This authentic 8mm home movie offers nostalgic, archival footage of mid-century leisure activities.

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: 123360422

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 involving summer swimming, backyard recreation, youth sports, or family leisure in Yonkers, New York.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show mid-century pool recreation, with a swim cap, dark swimsuit, and simple pool-edge framing as the main visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie moment as a young swimmer moves through the pool toward the edge.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue pool water, a swimmer in a white cap, a dark swimsuit, ripples, splashes, pool-edge framing, and film gate borders.
Film character: The scan carries strong 8mm texture, blue-green color shift, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and uneven exposure across the brief shot.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, summer memory beat, poolside cutaway, or transition within a mid-century family recreation sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents domestic leisure and informal swimming practice as seen through a family camera, without identifying a public venue or event.
Research note: A person is visible and may be a minor, so likeness and context review may be needed even where copyright status is handled separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm home movie swimming, Yonkers pool footage, vintage girl swimmer, backyard pool recreation, and summer family film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Yonkers 1953 material, then broader 1950s swimming or summer recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame showing a swimmer in a white cap crossing blue pool water with ripples and dark film borders. — A swimmer in a white cap moves through the pool as ripples spread across the blue water.

1953 Yonkers 8mm frame with the swimmer partly submerged and blurred by motion in blue pool water. — The swimmer advances through the water, with the cap and upper body softened by motion and film texture.

Overexposed 8mm home-movie frame from the pool sequence, with pale blue-green water and dark vertical gate edges. — The brief pool shot shifts into a bright overexposed frame with only faint water detail visible.

1953 Yonkers pool frame showing blue-green water, soft ripples, dust specks, and visible 8mm gate borders. — Rippling pool water fills the frame after the swimmer has moved out of clear view.

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