Yorktown Virginia-1958: Video Of A Swimming Hole In An Old Local Quarry

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationYorktown, Virginia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Yorktown Virginia

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Video Of A Swimming Hole In An Old Local Quarry — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched swimming hole nestled within an old local quarry in Yorktown, Virginia. The footage reveals layered limestone cliffs rising above dense green vegetation, with a calm body of water in the foreground. Small structures and parked cars dot the cliff edge, suggesting a popular recreational spot. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural camera movement, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American leisure. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring 1950s Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127285028

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 1958 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: Yorktown, Virginia, 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: Supports requests for 1950s Virginia leisure footage, outdoor recreation cutaways, or archival inserts showing a quarry swimming area in home-movie form.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-century roadside recreation, with parked cars, simple cliff-edge structures, and an informal swimming hole visible above the quarry water.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, observing the quarry, water, cliffs, and surrounding trees without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green quarry water, layered pale rock walls, dense trees, brush, a shoreline, small structures, and parked cars along the upper edge.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, mild color shift, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, memory beat, transition, or cutaway for 1950s outdoor leisure and regional place context.
Historical context: The clip documents an informal-looking quarry recreation site, suggesting local summer leisure without making claims about ownership, access, or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1958 Yorktown Virginia quarry, 1950s swimming hole, 8mm home movie water cliffs, and vintage Virginia recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Yorktown or Virginia 1958 material, then broader 1950s swimming, quarry, water, and summer leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Yorktown, Virginia home-movie view of layered quarry cliffs, trees, brush, and a glimpse of water below. — Layered quarry wall and greenery frame the swimming-hole setting.

Yorktown quarry landscape with a wooded ridge, pale rock face, vegetation, and a small road or path near the bottom of frame. — A wooded quarry edge appears above brush and a lower access path.

1958 home-movie frame of the Yorktown quarry swimming area, with water, cliff layers, trees, and small distant structures. — Green quarry water sits below a wooded cliff and small distant structures.

Wide view of the Yorktown quarry swimming hole, showing calm water, pale rock walls, wooded slopes, and small ridge-top structures. — A wider view shows the quarry water beneath pale cliffs and wooded slopes.

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