Indiana-1959: People Swimming with Inflatable Rings in Backyard Pool

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationIndiana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Indiana

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People Swimming with Inflatable Rings in Backyard Pool — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a joyful summer day at a backyard swimming pool in Indiana. A man and two women, all wearing classic white swimming caps, enjoy the water with inflatable rings. The footage shows them laughing, splashing, and relaxing in the pool, surrounded by lush green hedges. The film exhibits characteristic 8mm grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, evoking authentic mid-century Americana nostalgia. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects about 1950s family 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: 125513318

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: 1959 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: Indiana, 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 American home-movie requests needing backyard swimming, summer leisure, family recreation, or mid-century pool scenes for documentary or editorial use.
Period detail: The white swim caps, simple inflatable rings, and backyard pool setting fit the supplied 1959 Indiana home-movie context and may show mid-century casual summer recreation.
Home-movie behavior: The swimmers appear relaxed and unstaged as they float, talk, laugh, and move through the water for the home camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adult swimmers, white bathing caps, dark inflatable rings, blue pool water, a pale pool edge, green hedges, and handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, blue-magenta color shift, visible grain, gate edges, and slight motion blur consistent with amateur color home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, summer recreation cutaway, family-life insert, or transition within a sequence about 1950s leisure.
Historical context: The clip offers a small domestic view of pool recreation and social relaxation without identifying the people, property, or occasion shown.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed in addition to any copyright or footage licensing assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Indiana 8mm swimming pool footage, 1950s backyard pool home movie, adults in swim caps, and vintage inflatable ring scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Indiana or 1959 home movies, then broader 1950s summer, swimming pool, and family recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Indiana home-movie frame showing adults in a backyard swimming pool, including a white-capped swimmer using a dark inflatable ring. — Adults float and swim in a backyard pool bordered by hedges.

1959 Indiana frame with adult swimmers close to the camera, white bathing caps, blue pool water, and a dark inflatable ring. — White-capped swimmers gather near the camera in the pool.

Soft, handheld 8mm frame from the 1959 Indiana pool scene, with water, pool edge, and a partial swimmer close to the camera. — The camera catches a blurred close pass beside the pool water.

Wide 1959 Indiana home-movie frame showing three adults spread across a backyard pool, with one white-capped swimmer using an inflatable ring. — Three adults relax in the pool as one floats with a ring.

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