New Jersey-1938: Woman Descending Ladder into Swimming Pool

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationNew Jersey, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 New Jersey

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Woman Descending Ladder into Swimming Pool — Clip Details

NEW JERSEY-1938: A young woman in a vintage one-piece swimsuit and swim cap walks along a poolside bordered by dense trees. She approaches a metal ladder, grips it, and carefully steps into the water. The black-and-white 8mm film captures the scene with natural grain and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, sun-drenched summer day. This authentic home movie footage offers a rare glimpse into 1930s leisure activities and swimwear fashion.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127267503

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: 1938 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: New Jersey, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1930s New Jersey home-movie footage for productions needing a concise leisure, swimming, summer recreation, or period swimwear insert.
Period detail: The one-piece swimsuit, swim cap, metal pool ladder, and black-and-white 8mm look support a late-1930s leisure setting.
Home-movie behavior: The swimmer moves carefully and naturally from the poolside to the ladder, giving the clip an unstaged family-film observation of a routine swim.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a young woman in a swim cap and one-piece suit, pool edge, metal ladder, water surface, dense trees, lawn, and deep film gate borders.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and contact-print framing that preserve the tactile character of a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, memory beat, or transition for 1930s leisure, summer, swimming, or period recreation sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents private recreational swimming and women’s swimwear style in a domestic or club-like outdoor pool setting without identifying the site.
Research note: A visible person appears, so likeness and privacy review may be needed separately from copyright status; no logos or audible music are evident from the supplied metadata.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1938 New Jersey 8mm swimming pool footage, 1930s woman swimsuit home movie, and vintage swim cap ladder pool scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with New Jersey 1938 summer footage, then with broader 1930s swimming, pools, and leisure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1938 New Jersey home-movie footage, a young woman in a swim cap and one-piece swimsuit walks along a tree-lined pool edge. — A swimmer walks along the poolside toward the ladder.

The swimmer reaches the metal pool ladder, with trees and shrubs behind her in the 1938 New Jersey outdoor scene. — The swimmer grips the ladder before entering the water.

The woman descends the ladder into the pool, partly turned away, with water, lawn, and trees visible behind her. — The swimmer steps down the ladder into the pool.

At the end of the clip, the swimmer is low on the ladder near the water, with the pool surface and grassy background visible. — The swimmer settles onto the ladder at the waterline.

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