She turns away from the lens while the man beside her grins.
1952 · United States
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A woman with a cigarette in her lips looks toward the camera on a lake beach, circa 1952, United States, 1952
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- 1952
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- United States
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- Still 1 · 0.10s into the source clip
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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.
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1952 · United States
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Source footage and archive context
United States-1952: Woman Smoking a Cigarette on a Lake Beach Beside a Laughing Man
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Source format: 8mm home movie.
Browse the collection: 1952 United States.
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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.
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.
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.
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