United States-1960: Woman Holding Baby in a Lawn Chair Beside a Crowded Swimming Pool

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

summer leisure
family outing
motherhood
childhood
public recreation
swimming
mid-century American life

Shot type: medium
Camera: static
Setting: outdoor · Grass lawn beside a large outdoor swimming pool with a crowded deck, beach umbrellas and wooded hills behind
Time and weather: midday · summer · sunny and clear
Lighting: Harsh midday sunlight with backlit, deeply shadowed foreground figures
People: 4 · A woman in a dark swimsuit holding a baby, a girl with a ponytail and white sunglasses, a child in a black swimsuit and a small boy in blue trunks and a white cap, with many distant bathers at the pool behind.
Objects: webbed aluminium lawn chair · blue-and-white beach umbrella · red umbrella · green umbrella pole · picnic bags · towel · red cooler · white sunglasses · plaid blanket · closed white umbrella
Colors: green · sky blue · navy · white · red
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A child in a black swimsuit leans toward the bags between the seated woman and the girl.
The child stands with back to the camera, then walks off to the left.
A boy in blue trunks and a cap passes behind the woman holding the baby.
The boy in a white cap walks into the centre of the frame as bathers move along the deck.

Woman Holding Baby in a Lawn Chair Beside a Crowded... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1960, home movie footage shows a family settled on the grass beside a crowded outdoor swimming pool. A woman in a dark swimsuit holds a baby in a webbed aluminium lawn chair while a girl with a ponytail and white sunglasses sits in profile beside picnic bags. A child in a black swimsuit stands between them, then a small boy in blue trunks and a white cap walks through. The single static shot is framed past a green umbrella pole, with bathers, striped umbrellas and wooded hills behind.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001746

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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 requests for authentic circa 1960 American summer pool scenes showing families and children for documentary, education or nostalgic commercial work.
Period detail: The webbed aluminium folding chair, one-piece swimsuits, white-framed sunglasses and cyan-leaning colour stock may show the late 1950s to early 1960s.
Home-movie behavior: The family is filmed unposed as they settle in, with the woman tending the baby and children wandering through, the camera simply watching from their own spot on the lawn.
What appears in frame: A woman cradling a baby in a lawn chair, a ponytailed girl in white sunglasses, a boy in blue trunks, piled bags, a blue-and-white umbrella and a crowded pool below wooded hills.
Film character: Colour 8mm with fine grain, a cool cyan cast and strong contrast that turns the foreground into near-silhouette against a bright background.
Edit role: Works as a period establishing shot or memory-beat cutaway in a sequence about summer family outings.
Historical context: The scene reflects the era's large outdoor pools as family gathering places, with groups bringing chairs, towels and coolers for a full day on the lawn.
Research note: Footage copyright is separate from likeness: the woman, girl and several minors are recognisable, and the pool may be club or private premises, so releases and property review may apply.
Research search match: 1960s family at swimming pool, 8mm home movie mother and baby, vintage pool lawn with umbrellas, mid-century summer leisure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's crowded pool deck panorama, the boy carrying an air mattress and the baby on a blue air mattress, then with other circa 1960 US summer recreation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Family on a swimming pool lawn in the United States, circa 1960, woman with baby in an aluminium chair and child bending to bags — A family settles on the pool lawn as a child in a black swimsuit leans toward the bags, circa 1960.
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Circa 1960 American pool day: a child stands between a mother holding a baby and a ponytailed girl, pool and hills behind — A child in a black swimsuit stands between the seated woman and the girl, with bathers and a red cooler on the deck beyond.
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Boy in blue swim trunks passes behind a woman and baby on a pool lawn in the United States, circa 1960 — A boy in blue trunks passes behind the woman and baby as swimmers crowd the pool behind, circa 1960.
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Small boy in a white cap walks across a crowded pool lawn past his seated family, United States, circa 1960 — A small boy in a white cap walks through the family's spot on the lawn while bathers stroll the deck behind.
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