New York-1973: Family Swimming and Boating on Lake

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Family Swimming and Boating on Lake — Clip Details

A young man swims in a lake, water splashing around him as he smiles, captured on 8mm film in 1973. The scene shifts to a woman with dark, styled hair laughing joyfully inside a boat, wearing a patterned swimsuit. She beams with happiness, her sunglasses perched on her head, as the boat moves through the water. The footage, shot on vintage 8mm film, shows natural light and film grain, evoking a nostalgic summer day on the water. This authentic home movie captures candid moments of joy and relaxation during a family outing.

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: 125583047

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 1012 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: swimming
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1973 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 1970s New York home-movie requests needing a brief family lake outing, boating, swimming, or summer leisure insert.
Period detail: The 8mm frames may show early 1970s swimwear, large sunglasses, casual lake recreation, and small-boat activity consistent with the supplied 1973 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in unstaged family behavior: a man smiling while swimming and a woman laughing on or near a boat during a relaxed day on the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include lake water, a swimming man, a laughing woman, sunglasses, swimsuit straps, a boat windshield, bright sky, and wooded shoreline.
Film character: The scan carries home-movie texture with visible grain, handheld framing, contrast shifts, soft focus, and sunlit exposure changes across the contact-sheet frames.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a memory beat, summer-day cutaway, family recreation insert, or transition between broader 1970s leisure scenes.
Historical context: The clip reflects private family leisure on a lake, showing casual recreation and boat-based social life without identifiable public landmarks or events.
Research note: Visible adult faces require likeness review, while no logos, minors, private property, or audible music are indicated in the supplied rights flags.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1973 8mm New York lake family outing, vintage home movie swimming, woman laughing on boat, and 1970s summer leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other New York 1973 lake or boat footage, then broader 1970s family summer recreation and water-leisure clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

A man swims in lake water during a 1973 New York home-movie family outing, with ripples and bright reflections around him. — A smiling man swims in the lake as sunlight catches the moving water.

A woman laughs in a shaded boat setting, with a windshield and bright water or sky behind her in 1973 New York home-movie footage. — A woman laughs close to the camera inside or beside a small boat.

A woman in a swimsuit turns or laughs near the lake, her sunglasses resting on her head, with trees and sky behind her. — Motion blur catches a woman laughing or turning during the boat outing.

A woman smiles in profile as the boat passes a wooded shoreline.

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