Indiana-1959: Family Enjoying Swimming Pool Day

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

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Family Enjoying Swimming Pool Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a family enjoying a sunny day at a swimming pool in Indiana. A young boy in swim trunks stands in the water, while a woman in a dark swimsuit and an older man with white hair relax in the pool. The footage shows them laughing, splashing, and interacting in the water, with lush green foliage and palm trees visible in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and light scratches, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century American leisure and 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: 125513402

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: Supports requests for late-1950s American home-movie footage of family leisure, swimming pools, and informal summer recreation for documentary or educational use.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century swimwear, a backyard or club-style pool setting, and 8mm color home-movie handling consistent with the supplied 1959 Indiana metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in unstaged poolside interaction, with adults standing, swimming, splashing, and facing one another in relaxed family recreation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include several swimmers, pale pool water, a white pool edge, leafy planting, a potted palm, swim trunks, dark swimsuits, and handheld framing.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, faded exposure, gate edges, light scratches, and minor instability that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, family leisure insert, summer recreation cutaway, or transition within a mid-century domestic-life sequence.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for private or semi-private pool recreation and casual family social time in the late-1950s United States.
Research note: People and recognizable faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and property permissions should be evaluated separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1959 Indiana 8mm swimming pool family, 1950s home movie pool day, and vintage American summer recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Indiana family footage, then broader 1950s swimming or summer leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Indiana 8mm frame showing adults in a swimming pool, with leafy landscaping and a potted palm beyond the pool edge. — Family members stand and face one another in a swimming pool bordered by greenery.

1959 Indiana home-movie frame with a woman swimming across a pale outdoor pool as another swimmer is partly cropped above. — A woman moves through the pool while another swimmer is only partly visible at the frame edge.

1959 Indiana 8mm frame showing swimmers gathered in an outdoor pool, including a man centered near the far side. — Swimmers gather in the pool as the handheld camera crops some figures at the edges.

1959 Indiana home-movie frame showing an older man swimming near a woman at the pool edge, with pale water filling the scene. — An older swimmer approaches a woman near the edge of the pool.

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