Yonkers New York-1953: Woman Wearing Blue Swimwear Starts Swimming Under Water

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

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Woman Wearing Blue Swimwear Starts Swimming Under Water — Clip Details

A young woman in a blue swimsuit begins swimming underwater in this 8mm home movie from Yonkers, New York, 1953. The footage captures her gliding beneath the surface, with turquoise water and soft light filtering through. The grainy, slightly faded quality of the Super 8 film adds authentic vintage texture, showing natural film imperfections and subtle color shifts. The scene evokes a nostalgic summer day at a pool or beach, with the swimmer moving gracefully through the water.

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: 123360489

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 for 1950s home-movie requests needing brief underwater swimming, summer recreation, or pool and beach atmosphere for documentary or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The color 8mm look and dated metadata support a 1953 Yonkers, New York context, while the frames themselves mainly show underwater swimwear, blue water, and filtered sunlight.
Home-movie behavior: The clip offers unstaged home-movie observation of a swimmer moving below the surface, with the camera close enough to emphasize water, light, and motion rather than posed portraiture.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include turquoise water, a blue swimsuit or swimmer form, wavering surface light, soft underwater shadows, film-frame borders, dust specks, and slight color fading.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, gate edges, small dust marks, muted blue-green color, and shifting exposure that give the underwater scene physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, memory beat, summer transition, or underwater cutaway within a larger sequence about recreation, swimming, or midcentury home life.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual midcentury leisure as seen through a family camera, though the frames do not identify a specific pool, beach, event, or individual.
Research note: No faces, logos, children, or property details are visible in these frames, but copyright status and any underlying likeness or location concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm underwater swimming, Yonkers New York home movie, woman in blue swimwear, vintage pool footage, and summer recreation archive clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Yonkers or 1953 material, then broader 1950s swimming, pool, beach, and summer leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame showing a swimmer form underwater in blue-green water, with soft light and 8mm film borders. — A swimmer begins moving underwater, partly obscured by blue-green water and film texture.

Underwater 8mm frame from the Yonkers clip with rippled sunlight, turquoise water, and faint swimmer movement near the surface. — Light ripples across the water as the swimmer passes below the surface.

1953 color 8mm underwater frame with a faint swimmer form, pale blue water, and wavering surface light. — The swimmer becomes indistinct in the pale blue water and surface reflections.

Final underwater frame from the Yonkers home movie, showing blurred swimmer movement in turquoise water with 8mm specks and edge darkening. — Blurred motion and turquoise water close the brief underwater swimming shot.

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