South Dakota-1954: A Woman Savors The Freshness And Coolness Of The Waters

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only. $149 flat from Stockfilm for documentary, news and educational use. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or broadcast promotion.

Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationSouth Dakota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1954 South Dakota

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Before you add to cart: Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion. Checkout will only offer editorial, educational, internal and social/web scopes.

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

A Woman Savors The Freshness And Coolness Of The Waters — Clip Details

A young woman enjoys a refreshing swim in a lake during a sunny summer day in South Dakota, 1954. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures her smiling and playfully interacting with the water, her dark hair wet and tousled. The vibrant blue water contrasts with the lush green shoreline and distant trees. The handheld camera movement and natural lighting evoke a nostalgic, authentic home movie feel, with visible film grain and color saturation typical of mid-century amateur footage.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127607644

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.

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: Yes
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: 1954 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: South Dakota, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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.

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s South Dakota home-movie requests needing summer lake recreation, swimming, or informal vacation leisure footage.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1950s swimwear, saturated 8mm color, and a casual lakeside setting consistent with the supplied 1954 South Dakota metadata.
Home-movie behavior: A woman smiles, poses, and plays toward the camera while swimming, giving the clip an unstaged family-film feeling.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in lake water, rippling blue surface, wet dark hair, bright sun, blurred shoreline greenery, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, saturated blue color, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing typical of amateur mid-century film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a memory beat, recreation cutaway, summer transition, or personal-vacation insert within a 1950s sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents informal outdoor leisure and lake swimming as captured by a private camera, without enough visible evidence to identify the lake or occasion.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright, and no specific location or brand should be assumed from the frames.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1954 South Dakota 8mm home movie lake swimming, 1950s woman swimming, summer recreation footage, and vintage family vacation water scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other South Dakota 1954 outdoor scenes, then broader 1950s lake swimming or summer recreation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Soft, blurred 8mm view of shoreline greenery and blue sky, likely from the same South Dakota lake sequence. — Blurred shoreline and sky appear between dark film-frame edges.

Woman swimming in a South Dakota lake in 1954, smiling toward the camera with rippling blue water around her. — A woman smiles in the lake and raises her hand toward the camera.

A smiling woman faces the camera while swimming in a South Dakota lake, shown in saturated 1954 8mm color. — The swimmer faces the camera with water rippling around her shoulders.

The swimmer turns to the side while smiling in the water.

Visually Similar Clips