Yonkers New York-1953: Girl Swimming Underwater in Community Pool

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

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Girl Swimming Underwater in Community Pool — Clip Details

A young girl swims underwater in a community pool, captured on 8mm film in 1953. The footage shows her moving through the blue water, her form visible beneath the surface as she performs a stroke. The image has a distinct vintage quality with grain, color fading, and film scratches typical of home movie footage. The pool's edge appears briefly at the end, confirming the setting. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century youth recreation and swimming technique.

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: 123360582

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 archival requests about public pool recreation, swimming practice, youth leisure, or mid-century home-movie summer activity in Yonkers, New York.
Period detail: The pool setting, color 8mm look, and metadata-supported 1953 date place the scene in early 1950s recreational home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The swimmer is filmed casually from above the water, giving the clip an unstaged family or community-pool observation rather than a formal sports record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue pool water, an underwater swimmer, splashing movement, dark hair, a pool edge, film gate borders, grain, and light scratches.
Film character: The clip has saturated blue color, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and minor scratches that read as physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, or cutaway for mid-century recreation, swimming lessons, summer leisure, or family archive sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually documents everyday pool recreation in a mid-century suburban New York setting without identifying the facility or participants.
Research note: People are visible and likeness review may be needed; no logos, audible music, or clearly identifiable private property are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1953 8mm swimming pool footage, Yonkers home movies, mid-century community pool recreation, or vintage underwater swimmer scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1953 Yonkers material, then broader 1950s pool, swimming, and summer recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame showing blue pool water with a swimmer partly obscured underwater and visible film gate edges. — A swimmer is faintly visible beneath blue pool water at the start of the clip.

1953 Yonkers frame of a swimmer moving underwater in a community pool, seen through blue water with grain and scratches. — The swimmer moves through the pool, partly obscured by water and bubbles.

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame showing a swimmer underwater with one arm extended during a stroke in the pool. — An underwater swimmer extends an arm while moving across the frame.

1953 Yonkers frame showing the swimmer near the white pool edge, with splashing water and 8mm film texture visible. — The swimmer reaches the pool edge as water splashes around the body.

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