New Jersey-1938: A Woman Wearing A One-Piece Swimming Suit And Swimming Cap

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

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A Woman Wearing A One-Piece Swimming Suit And Swimming Cap — Clip Details

NEW JERSEY-1938: A woman in a one-piece swimsuit and swimming cap swims in a backyard pool, her movements captured in grainy black-and-white 8mm film. The footage shows her gliding through the water with a relaxed, rhythmic stroke, her head turning to breathe. The pool's concrete edge and surrounding foliage are visible, with natural light creating soft contrasts on the water's surface. This authentic home movie captures a moment of leisure and recreation from the late 1930s, showcasing vintage swimwear and the nostalgic charm of early 20th-century domestic life.

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: 127267547

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1930s home-movie requests needing women’s recreation, vintage swimwear, backyard leisure, or pool exercise material for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The one-piece swimsuit, close-fitting swim cap, black-and-white 8mm look, and domestic pool setting support a late-1930s home-movie context in New Jersey.
Home-movie behavior: The swimmer appears relaxed and unstaged, moving steadily through the water while the camera observes from poolside in a family-film manner.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a swim cap, dark pool water, concrete pool edges, steps or coping, pipes or rails, surrounding foliage, and heavy frame borders from the contact sheet.
Film character: The clip has a grainy black-and-white 8mm texture with soft contrast, modest exposure variation, slight blur, and the intimate framing typical of amateur home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, leisure cutaway, memory beat, or transition within material about 1930s recreation, swimming, summer, or domestic life.
Historical context: The footage shows private leisure and exercise around a home pool, offering visual context for everyday recreation and women’s swimwear in the late 1930s.
Research note: A visible adult face and body may require likeness review, while copyright status and any property-related permissions should be checked separately from the visual content.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1938 New Jersey home movie swimming pool, 1930s woman swimsuit swim cap, black-and-white 8mm backyard pool, and vintage recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel family leisure shots, then other New Jersey 1938 footage, then broader 1930s swimming, summer recreation, and domestic outdoor scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1938 New Jersey home-movie footage, a woman in a swim cap moves through a backyard pool near concrete coping. — A woman swims close to the pool edge, her face and swim cap visible above the water.

The swimmer’s capped head and shoulders are visible as she moves across a backyard pool in New Jersey home-movie footage. — The swimmer looks toward the camera while moving through rippled pool water.

A woman in a swim cap continues swimming near the far edge of the backyard pool, with water filling most of the frame. — The swimmer advances near the pool edge, partly submerged in the dark water.

The woman’s capped head and one arm remain visible as she swims through the pool in the final contact-sheet frame. — The swimmer remains near the far side of the pool as ripples spread across the water.

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