United States-1952: Two Women and a Man in Swimsuits Talking at a Lake Beach Waterline

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration2s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 · United States

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What is in this clip

summer leisure
lake swimming
mid-century swimwear
socialising
public recreation
home movies
postwar everyday life

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · pan · low angle from sand level
Setting: outdoor · Sandy freshwater lake beach with a roped swimming area and a wooded far shore
Time and weather: daytime · summer · hazy, grey sky
Lighting: flat, dim daylight with underexposed film
People: 9 · Two women in one-piece swimsuits, one dark with a halter neck and one blue patterned, and a tall man in pale yellow trunks at the waterline; several swimmers in the shallows, a figure seated on a ladder stand, and a dark-haired onlooker at the right frame edge.
Objects: line of white floats · ladder stand · red and cream foreground object · wooden board on the sand
Colors: dark green · grey-violet · tan · black · pale yellow · red
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Two women and a tall man stand at the waterline, the man shifting his weight on the wet sand.
The woman in the blue suit turns toward the man and smiles while the woman in the dark suit stands with her back to the camera.
The camera drifts right, bringing a figure seated on the ladder stand and more swimmers into view.
The man leans in close to the woman in blue as swimmers stand in the shallows behind them.

Two Women and a Man in Swimsuits Talking at a Lake Beach... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1952 home movie footage shows two women and a tall man in swimsuits standing at the waterline of a sandy lake beach. One woman in a dark halter suit has her back to the camera while a woman in a blue patterned suit turns toward the man in pale yellow trunks. Behind them swimmers stand in the shallows inside a line of white floats, a person sits on a ladder stand, and dense woods fill the far shore. It is a single handheld 8mm shot from low on the sand, soft in focus and dim in exposure, with a dark-haired onlooker at the right edge.

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: 2s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000565

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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: 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: Fits requests for early-1950s American summer recreation, giving a short candid view of adults in period swimwear at a freshwater swimming beach.
Period detail: The dark halter-neck suit, the patterned one-piece, the man's loose pale trunks and the women's short waved hair are consistent with the late 1940s to mid 1950s.
Home-movie behavior: Nobody plays to the camera; the three stand chatting and shifting their feet at the water while the filmer shoots past a companion's head from a seat on the sand.
What appears in frame: Two women and a tall man at the waterline, swimmers waist-deep behind them, a line of white floats, a ladder stand with a seated figure, dense woods, and an onlooker's dark hair at the right edge.
Film character: Regular 8mm colour with soft focus, dim exposure, muted greens and violet-grey water, plus dust, scratches and a hair in the gate that read as honest projected-film texture.
Edit role: Works as a brief insert or memory beat within a beach or summer sequence, and its soft focus suits it to dissolves and montage rather than a held establishing shot.
Historical context: The roped swimming area and ladder stand show a managed freshwater bathing beach of the kind used for summer day outings in mid-century America.
Research note: The location and the people are unidentified; copyright in the film is separate from likeness rights, and although faces are soft, the adults may still be recognisable to people who knew them.
Research search match: 1950s lake beach home movie, vintage swimsuits 8mm, bathers at water's edge, freshwater swimming area with floats, mid-century summer leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's men splashing in the lake, woman smoking on the beach and smiling woman portrait, then with other early-1950s lake or beach home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1952 8mm frame of two women and a man in swimsuits at the waterline of a wooded lake beach in the United States, the man mid-step on wet sand. — Three bathers gather at the water's edge of a lake swimming beach, United States, circa 1952.
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Woman in a blue one-piece smiling at a tall man beside a lake in the United States, circa 1952, with a figure seated on a ladder stand behind them. — The woman in blue turns toward the man in yellow trunks as two swimmers stand in the shallows behind.
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Soft-focus 8mm view of three bathers talking at a wooded United States lake beach, circa 1952, framed by an onlooker's dark curly hair at right. — The camera drifts right, taking in the ladder stand and the onlooker's dark hair in the foreground.
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Man in yellow trunks leaning close to a woman in blue at a lake swimming area in the United States, circa 1952, swimmers standing waist-deep behind. — The man leans in toward the woman in blue while swimmers wade inside the roped area.
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