Santa Cruz California-1949: Elderly Couple Frolic In A Pool

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationSanta Cruz, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1949 California

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Elderly Couple Frolic In A Pool — Clip Details

SANTA CRUZ CALIFORNIA-1949: An elderly man and woman enjoy a sunny day in a swimming pool, captured on vintage 8mm film. The woman, wearing a white swim cap and bikini, floats on a black inflatable ring while the man swims beside her, smiling. The scene unfolds at a residential pool with green grass, wooden lounge chairs, and a metal railing visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic 1940s home movie atmosphere. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring mid-century American life.

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: 125297870

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 1660 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1949
Reel-level location note: del mar, california,chicago
Date: 1949 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: Santa Cruz, California, 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 requests needing 1940s Santa Cruz home-movie footage of older adults at leisure for documentary, editorial, museum, or period-memory sequences.
Period detail: The swimming attire, black inflatable ring, pool railing, lawn, and wooden lounge chairs may show mid-century recreational life in a residential or club pool setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the unstaged play between an older couple as they smile, float, and draw close in the pool for the home camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an older man, a woman in a white swim cap and bikini, a black inflatable ring, blue-green pool water, metal railings, lawn, and lounge chairs.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate edges, and slight motion blur that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a warm insert, memory beat, or leisure cutaway within a sequence about aging, summer recreation, California life, or family archives.
Historical context: The clip presents older adults enjoying pool recreation, offering a small social view of casual outdoor leisure in postwar-era American home-movie footage.
Research note: Faces and likenesses are visible, so copyright status should be assessed separately from any needed permissions for recognizable people or depicted setting.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1949 Santa Cruz 8mm pool footage, elderly couple swimming home movie, vintage California leisure, and mid-century swimming pool scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Santa Cruz or 1949 material, then broader themes of swimming, aging, summer leisure, or family home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1949 Santa Cruz home-movie footage, an older man swims near a woman in a white swim cap floating on a black ring. — An older couple plays in a swimming pool, with lawn and railings behind them.

The older man faces the woman as she rests on a black ring in the Santa Cruz pool scene, with railings and lawn in back. — The couple faces each other while the woman floats on the inner tube.

The couple gathers around the black inflatable ring in the 1949 Santa Cruz pool footage, framed by soft 8mm focus. — The man and woman hold close around the pool float.

An older couple embraces around a black pool float in Santa Cruz, with railings, lawn, and lounge furniture visible beyond the water. — The couple embraces around the inner tube in the swimming pool.

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