New York-1951: Two People Going For A Swim In The Water

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Year1951
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 New York

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Two People Going For A Swim In The Water — Clip Details

A man in a swimsuit enjoys a swim in a lake or river, captured on vintage 8mm film in 1951. He laughs and splashes in the water, then rinses his face. Later, two people, one wearing a green swim cap, swim together in the rippling water. The footage shows classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic summer memory from New York.

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: 124925820

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1951 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: New York, United States 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: Useful for 1950s New York home-movie requests needing brief recreational swimming footage for documentary, educational, or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The frames may show early-1950s leisure swimming, with simple swimwear, a cloth or rubber swim cap, and handheld 8mm color home-movie framing.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged behavior: a man laughing, splashing, rinsing his face, and two swimmers moving casually through open water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling lake or river water, two adult swimmers, a green swim cap, bare shoulders, splashing hands, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has a saturated 8mm color look with soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame edges that signal physical-film origin.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short summer-memory insert, recreation cutaway, family-leisure transition, or water activity beat in a 1950s sequence.
Historical context: The footage places ordinary outdoor swimming within a mid-century home-movie context without identifying the exact body of water or the people shown.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed in addition to copyright and source licensing checks.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1951 New York 8mm swimming, vintage home movie lake or river swimmers, mid-century summer recreation, and archival water footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel summer scenes, then New York 1951 outdoor recreation, then broader 1950s home-movie swimming or leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1951 New York home-movie footage, a smiling adult man stands chest-deep in open water with dark film borders visible. — A man smiles while standing in the water during a casual swim.

An adult man in 1951 New York swimming footage wipes or rinses his face while standing in rippling water. — The swimmer brings both hands to his face while standing in the water.

Two adults swim side by side in open water, with one swimmer wearing a green cap in this 1951 New York home-movie frame. — Two swimmers move through the water, one marked by a green swim cap.

Two adults continue swimming across rippling water in 1951 New York footage, one wearing a green swim cap. — The pair swims farther across the water as small ripples surround them.

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