New York-1951: Child Swimming in Pool

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

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Child Swimming in Pool — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1951: A young child swims in a backyard pool, moving toward the camera with a joyful smile. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the child's playful motion through the water, with a blue pool liner and green grass visible at the edge. The image shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and a soft focus typical of vintage home movies. The child, wearing a dark swimsuit, splashes and smiles directly at the lens, conveying a sense of carefree summer fun. This authentic 1950s home movie offers nostalgic, archival footage ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or vintage-themed projects.

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: 124926838

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s New York home-movie footage suited to requests for family leisure, childhood swimming, backyard pool activity, and summer memory beats.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century residential swimming pool setting, with a simple pool edge, green grass, and soft color typical of 1951 8mm home movies.
Home-movie behavior: A young swimmer moves through the water toward the camera, smiling and splashing in an unstaged family-film moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a child in a dark swimsuit, blue-green pool water, splashes, a pool edge, grass beyond the pool, and black 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries home-movie texture through visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, slight color fading, and contact-sheet frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, cutaway, or memory beat for childhood, summer recreation, family life, or nostalgic leisure sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents informal family recreation rather than a public event, offering visual context for domestic leisure and childhood play in the early 1950s.
Research note: People and a likely minor are visible, so likeness and child-use review may be needed separately from copyright or footage licensing checks.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1951 New York 8mm home movie child swimming, vintage pool footage, smiling swimmer, and family summer recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1951 New York home movies, then broader 1950s family swimming or summer leisure clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1951 New York home-movie footage, a child swims in blue-green pool water with grass visible beyond the pool edge. — Child swims across a backyard pool in a vintage home-movie frame.

A child in a dark swimsuit swims through a backyard pool, partly turned in the water, with visible splashing and 8mm frame borders. — Swimmer turns through the water as splashes catch the light.

A young swimmer is partly submerged in the pool, moving across the frame in soft-focus 8mm home-movie footage. — Child swims low in the water during a backyard pool scene.

A child swims toward the camera and smiles in a 1951 New York backyard pool scene, with splashing water around the face. — Smiling child approaches the camera while swimming through the pool.

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