Moscow Russia-1983: Young Girl Swimming in Lake

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Year1983
Decade1980s
LocationMoscow, Russia
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1983 Russia

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Young Girl Swimming in Lake — Clip Details

A young girl swims in a lake, her head and arms visible above the water's surface in this grainy 8mm home movie from Moscow, Russia, 1983. The black-and-white footage captures her steady progress through the water, with gentle ripples surrounding her. The image is framed by the characteristic dark borders of an 8mm film projection, showing natural film grain and slight motion blur. This authentic vintage clip evokes a sense of nostalgic summer adventure and personal memory.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124820131

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1983 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Moscow, Russia Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: 1980s Moscow home-movie lake swimming footage for documentary, museum, education, or memory-sequence use where a brief Soviet-era summer recreation insert is needed.
Period detail: The frames show grainy 8mm black-and-white lake swimming with no visible landmarks, clothing detail, or signage beyond the supplied Moscow, Russia, 1983 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged family-film value, watching a swimmer move through open water from a simple handheld or projected home-movie viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a swimmer's head and shoulders, open lake water, small ripples, dark 8mm frame borders, soft focus, and a contact-sheet projection look.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft exposure, dark gate edges, slight blur, and uneven frame density that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, summer-memory insert, transition between family scenes, or visual beat for childhood recreation.
Historical context: The scene documents informal outdoor swimming as private home-movie observation rather than a public event, with no identifiable Moscow landmark visible.
Research note: People and faces are visible and at least one swimmer appears young, so likeness and minor review may be needed separately from footage copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1983 Moscow 8mm home movie swimming, Soviet-era lake recreation, girl swimming in lake, and vintage family summer footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Moscow 1983 home movies, then broader 1980s lake swimming or childhood summer recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A swimmer appears low in the water in Moscow, Russia, 1983 home-movie footage, framed by dark 8mm projection borders. — A swimmer's head breaks the lake surface in a soft, grainy 8mm frame.

The swimmer faces the camera while moving through lake water in the supplied Moscow, Russia, 1983 8mm home-movie frame. — The swimmer's face is visible above the waterline as ripples spread outward.

A young swimmer, likely a girl, is visible from the shoulders up in Moscow, Russia, 1983 lake footage with heavy 8mm grain. — A young swimmer rises higher in the water, with swimsuit straps visible.

A swimmer remains partly submerged near the center of the frame in 1983 Moscow lake footage, with ripples and soft 8mm texture. — The swimmer continues across the lake surface in a quiet final frame.

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