Yonkers New York-1953: Boy Practices Backstroke in Swimming Pool

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

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Boy Practices Backstroke in Swimming Pool — Clip Details

A young boy practices backstroke in a sunlit swimming pool, captured on 8mm film in Yonkers, New York, 1953. The footage shows him gliding through the water with rhythmic arm movements and splashing waves, his face occasionally visible as he breathes. Shot through a window frame, the clip has a nostalgic, grainy quality with faded blue and white tones typical of vintage home movies. The scene evokes summer recreation and youth sports in mid-century America.

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: 123362983

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 editorial requests needing home-movie footage of youth swimming practice, summer recreation, or a mid-century pool activity insert.
Period detail: The 8mm look, swimwear, and metadata-supported Yonkers 1953 setting place the scene in mid-century American leisure, though the pool itself has few date-specific clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged view of a child practicing backstroke, with repeated arm strokes, splashing water, and a partial face visible as he moves through the pool.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue pool water, a swimmer on his back, raised arms, white splashes, lane or pool-edge lines, red float markers, and dark window-frame divisions.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, faded blue-white color, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that give the swimming action a home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, childhood memory beat, summer recreation cutaway, or transition within a sequence on swimming, family leisure, or youth sports.
Historical context: The scene reflects private or local recreation through a family-camera perspective, showing a child learning or practicing a formal swim stroke in a pool setting.
Research note: People and a likely minor are visible, so likeness and child-use review may be needed; copyright status is separate from privacy, model, or property clearance.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s 8mm swimming pool footage, boy practicing backstroke, Yonkers New York home movie, and vintage youth swim recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Yonkers or 1953 family scenes, then broader pool, summer, youth sports, or swimming-practice material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In metadata-supported Yonkers, 1953, a child practices backstroke in a blue swimming pool, partly framed by dark vertical bars. — A child swimmer raises one arm during backstroke practice as water splashes around his face and shoulders.

A young swimmer continues backstroke practice in the pool, with his arm extended overhead and his body partly obscured by spray. — The swimmer's arm arcs overhead while splashing water partially hides his face and torso.

The child swimmer appears stretched across the lower pool frame during backstroke practice, with water spray and a dark window divider nearby. — The swimmer moves horizontally through the lower frame, with splashes marking the backstroke motion.

At the end of the clip, the swimmer's face is briefly visible near the edge of the pool frame as backstroke splashes fill the water. — The swimmer's face briefly appears at the right edge while turbulent water fills the pool view.

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