New Jersey-1938: Woman Swimming in Pool with Diving Board

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationNew Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 New Jersey

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Woman Swimming in Pool with Diving Board — Clip Details

A young woman in a vintage swim cap and swimsuit enjoys a sunny day at an outdoor pool in New Jersey, 1938. Shot on 8mm film, the clip captures her entering the water, swimming, and floating calmly in the gray water. The scene features a wooden diving board and ladder, surrounded by lush greenery. The grainy black-and-white footage, with natural film imperfections, evokes a nostalgic, authentic home movie feel from the late 1930s.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127267537

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: 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s New Jersey leisure, swimming, pool recreation, or home-movie inserts in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The swim cap, simple swimsuit, outdoor pool edge, ladder, and wooden diving board support a late-1930s recreation setting.
Home-movie behavior: The subject appears relaxed and aware of the camera while swimming, floating, and pausing near the pool edge.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a swim cap, rippling pool water, pool coping, a ladder, a diving board, and leafy greenery.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing from a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, leisure cutaway, summer transition, or visual insert for prewar domestic recreation.
Historical context: The clip shows private leisure at an outdoor pool, offering visual context for everyday recreation without identifying the subject.
Research note: A visible face and likeness require review; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance remains separate from likeness considerations.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 New Jersey home movie swimming pool footage, woman swimmer, vintage swim cap, diving board, and 8mm recreation scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then New Jersey 1938 footage, then other 1930s swimming, pool, summer, and home recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1938 New Jersey home-movie footage, a woman in a swim cap pauses at the edge of an outdoor pool near a ladder and diving board. — Woman pauses at the pool edge near the ladder and diving board.

The swimmer moves through an outdoor pool in 1938 New Jersey footage, with her capped head and shoulders visible above the water. — Swimmer moves across the pool with her head above the water.

A woman in a swim cap faces the camera while floating in gray pool water, consistent with the 1938 New Jersey home-movie clip. — Woman faces the camera while floating in the pool.

The swimmer floats with her arms extended in an outdoor pool, with rippling water and the pool edge visible behind her. — Swimmer floats with arms extended in the outdoor pool.

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