Indiana-1959: Young Man Swimming In Backyard Pool

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

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Young Man Swimming In Backyard Pool — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a young man swimming in a backyard pool, his movements creating ripples in the water. The footage shows him treading water and swimming with a relaxed, natural motion, his dark hair wet and slicked back. The pool's light blue water contrasts with the surrounding greenery and a white planter visible in the background. The image has the characteristic grain, slight color shift, and soft focus of a 1950s home movie, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory of summer leisure. The scene is calm and intimate, capturing a quiet moment of recreation.

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: 125513426

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

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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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Indiana home-movie pool footage suited for documentary inserts about summer leisure, family recreation, or mid-century backyard life.
Period detail: The clip may show a late-1950s residential pool setting, with light blue water, pool coping, trimmed greenery, and a white planter as visible era-context details.
Home-movie behavior: The swimmer appears relaxed and unstaged, treading water and moving casually as a home-movie camera observes from nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a young man in a pool, pale pool edge, light blue water, ripples and splashes, clipped hedges, a white planter, and soft backyard greenery.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, mild color shift, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that give it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief summer-memory insert, recreation cutaway, family-life transition, or quiet visual beat between broader 1950s scenes.
Historical context: The footage offers a small-scale view of private leisure and swimming in a residential setting without making broader claims about the household or neighborhood.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or audible music are indicated, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 Indiana 8mm pool swimming, 1950s home movie backyard pool, young man swimming vintage footage, and summer leisure archive film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Indiana 1959 home movies, then 1950s swimming, backyard leisure, and summer recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Indiana home-movie frame showing a young man partly submerged in a backyard swimming pool near the pale pool coping. — A swimmer moves through the pool near the edge in soft 8mm footage.

A young man with wet dark hair treads water in a backyard pool, filmed in 1959 Indiana home-movie footage. — The swimmer turns near the pool edge as water ripples around his shoulders.

Backyard pool frame showing clipped greenery, a white planter, and a swimmer low in the water in 1959 Indiana footage. — The camera catches poolside greenery and a white planter while the swimmer remains partly visible.

A swimmer is partly submerged near the foreground of a backyard pool, with hedges and pale coping visible in 1959 Indiana home-movie footage. — The swimmer drifts near the foreground while the pool edge and hedge line frame the backyard scene.

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