New York-1948: Happy Young Couple Embracing Lakeside in Swimsuits

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 New York

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Happy Young Couple Embracing Lakeside in Swimsuits — Clip Details

A young couple embraces warmly by a lakeside in this 1948 8mm home movie. The man, shirtless and wearing light-colored swim trunks, holds the woman close as she rests her head on his shoulder, both smiling. She wears a light-colored swimsuit with a patterned trim. They stand in front of a chain-link fence with a calm lake and greenery behind them. The footage shows natural film grain and vibrant, slightly faded colors typical of vintage Super 8 film, capturing a candid moment of affection and summer joy.

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: 124876285

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 2269 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: wedding,decoration day,wj nolan jr
Reel-level year note: 1948
Reel-level location note: geneva new york
Date: 1948 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: 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 1940s New York home-movie requests needing an affectionate summer couple scene for documentary, education, or memory-based edits.
Period detail: The swimsuits, light trunks, lakeside fence, and color 8mm look support a late-1940s leisure setting, with New York and 1948 drawn from clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The couple poses closely and smiles at the camera, giving the clip the unstaged intimacy of a family or friend filming a private summer outing.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a smiling couple in swimwear, a chain-link fence, lake water, shoreline greenery, sunlight, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, gate edges, and small exposure shifts consistent with original 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, romantic memory beat, summer transition, or personal-life cutaway within a 1940s family or leisure sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual lakeside recreation and affectionate posing in a private home-movie context, without identifiable landmarks or public events visible.
Research note: Faces and likeness rights require review; no logos or private property are apparent, but copyright and personal publicity permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 New York 8mm couple by lake, vintage home movie swimsuit embrace, 1940s summer recreation footage, and smiling young couple archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1948 New York lakeside material, then with broader 1940s summer and couple home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1948 New York home-movie footage, a young couple in swimwear stands arm in arm by a chain-link fence near lake water. — A smiling couple embraces beside a lakeside fence.

The couple remains closely embraced by the lakeside fence, smiling toward the camera in 1948 New York 8mm footage. — The pair holds their pose in bright lakeside sun.

A young woman in a light swimsuit leans into a shirtless man as they pose by a fence and lake in the New York home movie. — The woman leans into the man during the lakeside pose.

The final frame shows the couple still embracing near lake water, with the man partly cropped by the 8mm frame edge. — A cropped 8mm frame holds the couple in a close embrace.

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