Yonkers New York-1953: Women Doing The Backstroke Across An Outdoor Pool

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

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Women Doing The Backstroke Across An Outdoor Pool — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures women performing the backstroke across an outdoor swimming pool. Swimmers glide through the water, creating splashes and ripples under bright daylight. The footage shows multiple swimmers in separate lanes marked by floating lane dividers, with one swimmer prominently featured in the foreground. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color fading, and visible grain, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American summer. This archival clip offers authentic retro footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123362952

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s American leisure, athletics, summer recreation, or public-pool inserts in documentary, museum, education, or period commercial edits.
Period detail: The outdoor lane-divided pool, swim caps or slicked hair, and home-movie framing may show mid-century recreational or school swimming practice in Yonkers.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal home-movie view of swimmers moving through lanes, with splashes and partial framing that suggest an observer filming from poolside.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include women swimming backstroke, blue pool water, lane divider floats, splashes, a pool-edge rail or bar, soft focus, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight exposure washout, gate edges, and handheld framing that read as authentic physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short cutaway, summer-memory beat, athletic insert, or transition into mid-century recreation and swimming sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually places women in an outdoor swimming setting, offering social context for everyday recreation without proving a formal meet or institution.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so copyright status should be reviewed separately from likeness, privacy, and any location or release considerations.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s 8mm women swimming, Yonkers outdoor pool, backstroke home movie, vintage pool lanes, and mid-century summer recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1953 Yonkers footage, then outdoor pool, swimming, women athletes, or mid-century summer leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Yonkers home-movie frame of a woman doing backstroke in an outdoor pool, with lane floats and soft 8mm color. — A swimmer moves on her back through a lane as water splashes around her.

1953 Yonkers outdoor pool footage showing women swimming backstroke near lane dividers, partly obscured by splash and soft focus. — Backstroke swimmers pass through the frame, their bodies partly hidden by splashing water.

1953 Yonkers poolside view of swimmers doing backstroke, with a foreground rail or bar, lane floats, and washed 8mm color. — A poolside rail cuts across the scene as swimmers continue through the lanes.

Overexposed 1953 Yonkers pool frame with pale water, faint lane markers, and a swimmer mostly outside the visible area. — The final frame washes out into pale pool water, with only faint lane markers and movement visible.

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