Indiana-1959: Man in White Swim Trunks Swims and Floats on Inner Tube in Backyard Pool

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

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Man in White Swim Trunks Swims and Floats on Inner Tube... — Clip Details

INDIANA-1959: A man in white swim trunks enjoys a sunny day in a backyard pool, captured on vintage 8mm film. He swims and dives into the water, his face breaking the surface with a smile. In another moment, he floats on a dark inner tube, paddling through the calm water. The footage shows classic 1950s leisure, with natural film grain, slight color fading, and authentic home movie quality. This nostalgic clip offers a glimpse into mid-century American family life and summer 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: 125513500

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: Useful for 1950s American home-movie sequences needing brief backyard pool recreation, summer leisure, or family-memory inserts.
Period detail: The color 8mm look, swim trunks, inner tube, and simple residential pool setting support a late-1950s leisure scene in Indiana.
Home-movie behavior: The swimmer appears relaxed and playful, smiling toward the camera and paddling on an inner tube in an unstaged home-movie moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in white swim trunks, pale pool water, a dark inner tube, swimming motion, soft focus, film dust, and frame borders.
Film character: The clip has muted color, visible grain, gate weave, dust marks, and soft exposure typical of scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, summer cutaway, family-recreation insert, or transition within mid-century domestic footage.
Historical context: The footage shows private leisure and casual swimming as recorded by a home-movie camera, without visible public landmarks or event context.
Research note: A visible adult face may require likeness review, while copyright, location, and property questions should be checked separately before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1959 Indiana 8mm pool footage, 1950s home movie swimming, man on inner tube, and vintage backyard summer recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel family footage, then Indiana 1959 home movies, then broader 1950s swimming, pool, and summer leisure clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1959 Indiana home-movie footage, an adult man smiles while swimming in a backyard pool. — A smiling swimmer surfaces in the pool during a brief home-movie moment.

An adult swimmer is partly submerged in the pool, seen through faded 8mm color and soft motion blur. — The swimmer dips through the water as the film image softens with motion.

An adult man rests across a dark inner tube while paddling through the backyard pool water. — The man stretches across an inner tube and moves slowly through the pool.

In the 1959 Indiana pool scene, the man floats on a dark inner tube with one arm extended into the water. — The swimmer floats and paddles on a dark inner tube near the edge of the frame.

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