New York-1957: Man Swims In Pool, Takes Breath, Then Emerges

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man Swims In Pool, Takes Breath, Then Emerges — Clip Details

A man swims in a turquoise pool in this 8mm home movie from 1957, captured in New York. The grainy, vintage footage shows him gliding through the water, his face breaking the surface as he takes a breath. The clip captures candid, nostalgic moments of leisure, with the water's surface rippling under natural light. The film's aged quality, with visible scratches and soft focus, enhances its authentic retro feel. This archival footage offers a glimpse into mid-century domestic life and recreation.

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: 124883589

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 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1957 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 1950s New York home-movie requests needing swimming pool leisure, family recreation, or mid-century summer activity as editorial texture.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century pool recreation, with swimwear, soft color reversal film, and domestic leisure cues consistent with the supplied 1957 New York metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged swimmer surfacing, breathing, and moving through the pool while another person briefly swims nearby in a casual home-movie view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in turquoise pool water, another swimmer, rippling sunlight, dark frame borders, soft focus, and dust or scratches on the film scan.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, mild scratches, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that give it clear physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, cutaway, memory beat, or transition for recreation, summer leisure, swimming, or domestic life sequences.
Historical context: The clip visually reflects private leisure and pool activity in a mid-century home-movie context without identifying the exact pool, people, or occasion.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed in addition to copyright assessment; no logos or audible music are indicated.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1957 New York 8mm swimming pool footage, vintage home movie swimmer, mid-century pool recreation, and man swimming in pool.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1957 New York material, then related home-movie scenes of swimming, summer, and leisure.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1957 New York home-movie footage, a man swims toward the camera in a turquoise pool as water ripples around him. — A man breaks the surface while swimming in a turquoise pool.

The man continues through the pool in the supported 1957 New York home-movie setting, with soft focus and bright water around him. — The swimmer moves across the frame in rippling pool water.

A nearly empty pool view shows rippling turquoise water within the dark borders of the scanned 8mm home-movie frame. — Rippling pool water fills the frame between swim moments.

Another swimmer, likely an adult, moves through the turquoise pool water in the 1957 New York home-movie footage. — A second swimmer crosses the pool in the final frame.

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