United States-1952: Woman Smoking a Cigarette on a Lake Beach Beside a Laughing Man

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration3s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 · United States

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What is in this clip

summer leisure
smoking
mid-century America
lake recreation
candid portrait
companionship
swimwear fashion
home movie memory

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · Low eye level, from seated height on the sand
Setting: outdoor · Sandy freshwater swimming beach on a lake or pond, backed by dense deciduous and conifer woods
Time and weather: daytime · summer · Bright overcast or hazy, warm
Lighting: Soft, diffuse daylight with low contrast and no hard shadows
People: 14 · A dark-haired woman in a dark blue swimsuit with a cigarette in her lips sits in the foreground; a man with a crew cut lies on the sand beside her, laughing; about a dozen bathers in swimsuits stand or walk in the background, some of them small figures that appear to be children.
Objects: cigarette · dark blue swimsuit · pink swimsuit · wooden platform · sand · boulders
Colors: sand beige · forest green · navy blue · warm skin tones · coral pink
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A woman with a cigarette in her lips looks toward the camera while a man lies on the sand beside her.
She turns her head away and looks down as the man grins.
She bends toward her hands near her knees while the man laughs openly.
She turns back to the camera, cigarette still in her mouth, and smiles.

Woman Smoking a Cigarette on a Lake Beach Beside a... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1952 home movie footage shows a dark-haired woman in a dark blue swimsuit sitting on a sandy lake beach with a cigarette in her lips. She looks toward the camera, turns away and down toward her hands, then turns back smiling at the end. A man with a crew cut lies on the sand at lower right, grinning at her. Behind them bathers stand at the water's edge below dense green woods, filmed handheld in a single medium close shot.

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, 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: 3s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000563

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.

Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: Yes
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1952 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: 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: Suits requests for candid American summer leisure of the late 1940s to mid 1950s, especially everyday smoking, swimwear and lake recreation in documentary or education work.
Period detail: The woman's structured dark swimsuit, short waved hair, the man's crew cut and a cigarette smoked casually on a public beach point to the early 1950s.
Home-movie behavior: The woman notices the camera, looks away with a half-shy smile and turns back grinning while her companion laughs, an unposed exchange between people who know the person filming.
What appears in frame: A woman with a cigarette in her lips, a laughing man lying on the sand, bathers at the water's edge, a wooden platform with figures on it, pale sand, boulders and a wall of green trees.
Film character: Regular 8mm colour with warm skin tones and deep greens, soft foreground focus, visible grain, fine scratches and dark dust specks that read as authentic projected-film texture.
Edit role: Works as a short memory beat or character insert inside a beach or summer montage, or as an illustrative cutaway for narration about mid-century smoking habits.
Historical context: The clip shows smoking as an ordinary part of a day at a public swimming beach, alongside mixed groups of adults and children sharing the shoreline.
Research note: Two adult faces are clearly recognisable and the people are unidentified, so likeness and privacy should be weighed separately from the film copyright, particularly for advertising or tobacco-related use.
Research search match: 1950s woman smoking on beach, 8mm home movie lake swimming, vintage couple laughing on sand, mid-century swimsuit footage, candid cigarette archive film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's men splashing in the lake, bathers at the water's edge and smiling woman portrait, then with other circa 1952 American lake beach and smoking footage.

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Woman smoking a cigarette on a wooded lake beach in the United States, circa 1952, glancing at the camera as a man with a crew cut lies beside her. — A woman with a cigarette in her lips looks toward the camera on a lake beach, circa 1952, United States.
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She turns away from the lens while the man beside her grins.

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A man with a crew cut laughs on the sand as a woman in a dark blue swimsuit bends toward her hands, lake beach in the United States, circa 1952. — The woman looks down at her hands and her companion breaks into a laugh.
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Cigarette still in her mouth, the woman sits with knees raised as the man smiles up at her.

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