Yonkers New York-1953: Swimmer Doing Laps 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 Doing Laps in Pool — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage footage captures a swimmer performing laps in a sunlit pool in Yonkers, New York. The swimmer, wearing a dark swim cap, moves through the turquoise water with strong freestyle strokes, creating splashes and ripples. The film shows natural grain, slight color fading, and vertical scratches typical of Super 8 home movies. Sunlight glints off the water's surface, highlighting the swimmer's motion and the pool's edge. This authentic archival clip evokes mid-century American recreation and youth sports.

Licensing & Technical Details

Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123361499

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 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 requests needing 1950s American recreation, pool exercise, or amateur sports footage for documentary, education, or period lifestyle edits.
Period detail: The visible pool edge, swim cap, and color 8mm home-movie texture may show mid-century recreational swimming in Yonkers as described by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The swimmer is filmed from close to the pool, emphasizing an unstaged lap-swimming moment rather than a formal competition view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swimmer in a dark cap, turquoise pool water, splashes, ripples, reflected sunlight, a pool edge, and film frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries dense 8mm grain, blue-green color shift, vertical scratches, uneven exposure, and contact-print framing that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, recreation cutaway, memory beat, or transition within a sequence about summer, swimming, youth sport, or 1950s leisure.
Historical context: The footage visually places swimming as everyday outdoor recreation, with the camera focused on physical motion and sunlight on water rather than spectators or setting.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, but copyright, privacy, and location rights should be checked separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s 8mm swimming footage, Yonkers pool home movie, freestyle lap swimmer, sunny day pool recreation, and vintage youth sports.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Yonkers 1953 footage, then broader 1950s pool, summer recreation, or amateur sports material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame showing bright reflected sunlight on blue pool water beside the pool edge. — Sunlight glints across the pool surface near the edge.

1953 Yonkers pool footage with rippling water, bright surface reflections, and a partial swimmer entering the right side of frame. — Ripples and glare fill the pool as the swimmer passes near frame edge.

1953 Yonkers frame showing a swimmer in a dark swim cap cutting through turquoise pool water during a freestyle stroke. — The swimmer pushes through the water with splashes around the cap and arm.

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame showing a swimmer in a dark cap mid-stroke, partly obscured by splashing pool water. — A freestyle stroke carries the swimmer forward through churning water.

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