Indiana-1959: Three Men In Pool One Swimming One Standing One Holding Edge

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

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Three Men In Pool One Swimming One Standing One Holding Edge — Clip Details

INDIANA-1959: Vintage 8mm home movie footage captures three men enjoying a sunny day in a backyard swimming pool. One man swims with a freestyle stroke, another stands at the edge, and a third holds the pool's edge while relaxing. The scene is set against a backdrop of lush green bushes and a large potted palm tree, with the water reflecting a soft, nostalgic blue-green hue. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural camera shake, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or history 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: 125513447

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Indiana home-movie pool footage suited to documentary inserts about leisure, family recreation, summer routines, or midcentury backyard life.
Period detail: The scene may show late-1950s leisure details through the residential-style swimming pool, simple swimwear, clipped hedges, lawn, and potted palm visible behind the swimmers.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged poolside behavior, with men casually swimming, resting on the edge, and looking toward one another as the camera observes from nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three adult men, blue-green pool water, a pale pool edge, dense hedges, grass, a potted palm, and soft garden planting.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, muted color, visible grain, dust specks, mild exposure variation, and handheld framing that mark it as physical home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short summer leisure insert, a memory beat, or a cutaway within sequences about recreation, family gatherings, or midcentury domestic life.
Historical context: The clip gives a modest view of private leisure culture, showing adult men using a backyard-style swimming pool without visible signage, brands, or public landmarks.
Research note: Adult faces and bodies are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from privacy or property considerations.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 Indiana 8mm pool footage, 1950s men swimming home movie, backyard swimming pool archive, and vintage summer leisure film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Indiana or 1959 home movies, then with other pool, summer, and domestic leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Indiana 8mm frame showing a backyard-style pool, hedge line, lawn, and a swimmer partly entering the frame at left. — A swimmer is partly visible at the edge of the pool frame with hedges behind.

1959 Indiana home-movie frame of an adult man in a pool, arms spread along the edge, with hedges and a potted palm behind him. — A man rests in the pool with his arms along the edge near garden planting.

1959 Indiana 8mm frame showing an adult man swimming across blue-green pool water with hedges and a potted palm in the background. — A man swims across the pool while the garden hedge fills the background.

1959 Indiana home-movie frame with two adult men in a backyard-style pool, one standing or resting near the edge as another swims nearby. — Two men share the pool near the corner, one resting by the edge and one swimming.

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