Verified screen credit
One Day at a Time (2017): a 1955 Chicago home movie in the opening titles
A six-second 8mm home movie shot in Chicago in 1955 appears in the opening titles of the 2017 Netflix series One Day at a Time.
The title sequence
Stockfilm's own upload of the opening credits, published the week the series premiered. The archive clip is the nuns and boys at about 0:26.
The clip
- Title
- 1955: Catholic Nuns in Pinstripe Suits Smiling at Boys
- Filmed
- 1955, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Source
- 8mm home movie, scanned from the original reel
- Length
- 6 seconds
- Clip ID
- 57736236
Someone in a Chicago family pointed an 8mm camera at two nuns and three boys in pinstripe suits in 1955. Sixty-two years later the same six seconds help open a streaming sitcom about a family in Los Angeles. That is what a home-movie archive is for: the unposed, specific moment that a title designer cannot stage.
How it was licensed
Marketplace license through Videoblocks (now Storyblocks), where the clip was listed at the time, in December 2016, shortly before the series premiered in January 2017. The production licensed the clip under that marketplace's terms and cut it into the title sequence. Stockfilm published the comparison above on 2017-01-10, the week the series premiered.
Today the same kind of clip can be licensed on stockfilm.com directly, with the restored 4K master delivered within minutes of payment, or through Pond5. See the licensing guide.
How this credit was verified
Frame match: the nuns-and-boys frame in the title sequence is the same frame as the source clip's catalog thumbnail. Stockfilm published the comparison video on its own YouTube channel on 2017-01-10, the week the series premiered.
Production details are public record: Netflix; Sony Pictures Television. Developed by Gloria Calderón Kellett and Mike Royce. Stockfilm has no commercial relationship with the network or studio beyond the marketplace license, and claims nothing about the production beyond the appearance of this clip. Verified 2026-09-24.
Find footage like this
Family, church and neighborhood life on 8mm, dated and placed where the source allows.