United States-1960: Pan Across a Crowded Outdoor Pool Deck with Sunbathers and Umbrellas

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

summer leisure
public swimming
sunbathing
crowds
mid-century America
family outing
recreation

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld · high angle from a raised vantage
Setting: outdoor · large outdoor swimming pool with terraced concrete deck, lawns and wooded hills
Time and weather: midday · summer · sunny with thin high clouds
Lighting: bright direct sunlight with hard shadows
People: 60 · A large crowd of swimmers and sunbathers in period swimsuits, too small to identify; two women in white and yellow one-piece suits stand in the foreground with their backs mostly to the camera.
Objects: beach umbrellas · towels · folding deck chairs · pennant flags on poles · flagpole · baby carriage · concrete pool deck
Colors: deep blue · turquoise · pale grey-green · dark green · cream
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

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Sunbathers on towels and deck chairs sit under white and striped umbrellas, with pennant poles and wooded hills behind.
Two women in white and yellow swimsuits stand in the foreground beside what looks like a baby carriage.
The camera pans left across grass strips and towels on the terraced deck.
The crowded turquoise pool comes into view below the wooded ridge, with a flag on a tall pole.

Pan Across a Crowded Outdoor Pool Deck with Sunbathers... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1960, home movie footage pans across a crowded outdoor swimming pool on a bright summer day. The shot opens on sunbathers in deck chairs and on towels beneath white and striped umbrellas, with pennants on tall poles and wooded hills behind. Two women in swimsuits stand in the foreground, one bending over what looks like a baby carriage, before the camera swings left past grass strips to turquoise water full of swimmers. It is filmed handheld from a raised vantage in one continuous pan.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Wide shotExterior
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: 800001745

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$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: 1960 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: Answers a request for a circa 1960 American summer leisure establishing shot, showing a crowded outdoor swimming pool for documentary, education or nostalgic commercial work.
Period detail: One-piece swimsuits, canvas lawn umbrellas, folding deck chairs and a cyan-leaning colour stock may show a late 1950s to early 1960s date.
Home-movie behavior: A family member pans over the crowd from a raised spot, recording the scale of a busy pool day the way a visitor would remember it, with nobody posing.
What appears in frame: Sunbathers lie on towels under white and striped umbrellas, pennants fly on tall poles, two women in swimsuits stand by a carriage, and swimmers fill turquoise water below wooded hills.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, a cool cyan cast, deep blue sky and a projector-gate hair at the top edge give it an unmistakable projected 8mm texture.
Edit role: Works as an establishing shot or transition into a summer sequence, or as a nostalgic memory beat before closer swimming shots.
Historical context: The scene shows how large outdoor swimming facilities with lawns, umbrellas and terraced decks served as crowded summer gathering places for American families of the era.
Research note: The pool, its owner and the people are unidentified; copyright in the film is separate from likeness rights of visible bathers and any property rights of the facility, so assess each before commercial use.
Research search match: Matches searches such as vintage crowded swimming pool, 1960s summer pool home movie, 8mm sunbathers umbrellas, and retro American public pool footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's family camped on the pool lawn, boy carrying an air mattress and boy with baby on a blue air mattress, then other circa 1960 summer clips, then swimming-themed footage.

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Circa 1960 crowded pool deck in the United States, sunbathers under white umbrellas with pennant poles below a wooded hill. — Sunbathers settle under white and striped umbrellas on the pool deck, circa 1960.
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Two women in one-piece swimsuits on a crowded terraced pool deck in the United States, circa 1960, one tending what looks like a baby carriage. — Two women in one-piece swimsuits stand among sunbathers on the terraced deck.
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Terraced concrete deck with grass strips and crowds of sunbathers at an outdoor pool in the United States, circa 1960. — The camera pans across grass strips and towels on the crowded terraced deck.
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Crowded outdoor swimming pool below wooded hills in the United States, circa 1960, with sunbathers on the lawn and a flag on a pole. — The pan ends on the crowded turquoise pool below wooded hills.
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