Yonkers New York-1953: Swimming Boy Learning At Swim School

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

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Swimming Boy Learning At Swim School — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a young boy learning to swim at a school pool in Yonkers, New York. The clip shows the boy in a white swim cap and dark swimsuit executing a freestyle stroke, creating splashes in the turquoise water. Lane dividers with white and red floats stretch across the pool, and the footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight camera shake. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century youth recreation and swimming instruction.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123362709

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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 youth swimming instruction, school recreation, pool activity, or mid-century home-movie childhood footage.
Period detail: The 8mm color image, swim cap, lane ropes, and pool setting support a 1953 Yonkers swimming-school context without showing identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged instructional moment as a swimmer practices freestyle through splashing water from a close poolside home-movie viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swimmer in a white cap, turquoise pool water, heavy splashes, red and white lane floats, lane ropes, pool edge, and film frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, mild fading, gate edges, and handheld framing that give the pool action clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, childhood recreation cutaway, swim-training detail, or memory beat within a 1950s family or school sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows organized pool recreation and swim practice, offering visual context for mid-century youth activity without proving the school identity on screen.
Research note: People and faces appear, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible, and copyright status is separate from privacy or identification concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1953 8mm Yonkers swimming lesson, vintage boy learning to swim, 1950s school pool footage, and home-movie youth recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Yonkers or 1953 material, then broader 1950s swimming, school, pool, and childhood recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Yonkers swim-school footage shows a capped swimmer partly submerged while practicing a freestyle stroke in a marked pool lane. — A swimmer in a white cap creates a large splash during a pool practice stroke.

A capped swimmer advances through turquoise water in the 1953 Yonkers pool scene, with lane floats and spray visible around the stroke. — The swimmer continues across the lane as water splashes to the side.

The Yonkers swim-school clip shows the capped swimmer near the lane line, with a second burst of water spray filling the pool foreground. — The swimmer surfaces near the lane divider while splash obscures part of the pool.

A capped swimmer practices across the marked Yonkers pool lane, with white floats and fading 8mm color visible in the final frame. — The swimmer moves through the lane as the home-movie frame holds on the pool action.

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