Yonkers New York-1953: Swimmer Glides Through Turquoise Water in Pool

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

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Swimmer Glides Through Turquoise Water in Pool — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Yonkers, New York, 1953, showing an individual gliding through turquoise water. The footage captures the fluid motion of swimming with visible ripples and reflections on the surface. The swimmer, partially obscured, wears a dark swimsuit and moves gracefully beneath the water's surface. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: grainy texture, slight color fading, and natural imperfections like dust and scratches. This nostalgic, archival footage evokes a sense of carefree recreation and personal memory from the mid-20th century.

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: 123360456

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 1950s 8mm recreation footage for documentary or education edits needing an abstract swimming, pool, or summer leisure insert from a home-movie source.
Period detail: The frames show turquoise pool water on color 8mm film, with no visible landmarks or clothing details to independently confirm Yonkers or 1953 beyond the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds close on water movement, giving the clip an unstaged family-film view of swimming activity without identifiable faces or posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include turquoise water, surface ripples, light reflections, dark frame edges, a central film divider, dust specks, scratches, and faint submerged shapes.
Film character: The scan carries mid-century 8mm texture through soft focus, uneven exposure, color shift toward blue-green, gate edges, dust, and fine scratches.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, summer transition, or abstract water insert between more identifiable recreation scenes.
Historical context: As home-movie footage, it may reflect casual mid-century swimming recreation, but the frames do not show a pool setting, participants, or social details clearly enough for stronger claims.
Research note: No faces, logos, brands, or private property are visible in these frames, though copyright status and any off-frame likeness or location issues still require normal review.
Research search match: Researcher searches this may match include 1950s 8mm swimming footage, vintage pool water home movie, Yonkers recreation footage, and abstract archival water ripples.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Yonkers or 1953 family recreation material, then with broader swimming, summer, water, or youth sports themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame showing close turquoise water, surface ripples, reflected light, and visible 8mm film edges. — Close view of rippling turquoise water with film gate edges and dust visible.

Close 8mm frame from the Yonkers swimming clip, showing blue-green water, wavering reflections, dust, scratches, and the center film divider. — Blue-green water fills the frame beside the dark divider of the contact-sheet scan.

1953 Yonkers 8mm frame with rippling turquoise water, bright reflected streaks, grain, dust, and contact-sheet borders. — Ripples and pale reflections move across turquoise water in a close swimming insert.

Close Yonkers home-movie frame showing turquoise water, a faint submerged form, surface ripples, dust, scratches, and dark 8mm borders. — A faint submerged shape appears beneath rippling blue-green water near the end of the clip.

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