Southhampton New York-1937: Women Sunbathing In Garden

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationSouthhampton, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Women Sunbathing In Garden — Clip Details

SOUTHHAMPTON NEW YORK-1937: Vintage 8mm home movie footage captures a group of women relaxing in a sun-drenched garden. Shot on 8mm film, the clip shows women in period swimwear and dresses lounging on towels, basking in the sunlight. The scene is bathed in a distinct purple and blue color cast, characteristic of aged film, with visible grain and soft focus. The setting features a house with a bay window and a covered porch, creating a nostalgic, intimate snapshot of a summer day in the 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127265088

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: 1937 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: Southhampton, New York, 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: 1930s 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or editorial requests for leisure, summer domestic life, and women sunbathing in Southampton, New York.
Period detail: The women’s one-piece swimwear, lawn towels, shaded porch, and house facade support a late-1930s domestic summer setting, with the exact household unidentified.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves informal, unstaged social behavior as women lounge, talk, turn toward one another, and briefly acknowledge the camera in a garden setting.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include women in swimsuits, towels on grass, a covered porch, a bay window, garden planting, bright sunlight, and soft shadows across the lawn.
Film character: The 8mm scan has strong purple-blue color shift, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and mild frame-edge darkness that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief summer leisure insert, a domestic memory beat, or a transition between broader 1930s beach and private-life sequences.
Historical context: The footage shows women relaxing outdoors in swimwear within a domestic garden, offering visual context for private recreation and gendered leisure in the 1930s.
Research note: People and faces are visible, and the house exterior may require likeness or property review separate from any copyright or archive license assessment.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1937 8mm women sunbathing, Southampton New York home movie, 1930s garden leisure, and vintage swimwear lawn footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Southampton or 1937 material, then with 1930s summer leisure, swimwear, and domestic garden scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1937 Southampton home-movie frame showing women gathered near a shaded porch and garden outside a house. — Women sit and relax in the shaded garden area beside a house porch.

Women in period swimwear lounge on towels in a sunny Southampton garden in 1937 home-movie footage. — Women sunbathe and talk on towels spread across the lawn.

Several women sit together on towels in a sunlit 1937 Southampton garden, with another figure standing behind them. — Women seated on towels look toward one another in the garden sun.

Group of women in swimwear sit together on towels in a sunny Southampton garden, some facing the camera. — A group of women gather on lawn towels, with several faces turned toward the camera.

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