North Dakota USA-1953: Three Friends And A Dog Skate On A Frozen Pond

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationNorth Dakota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Three Friends And A Dog Skate On A Frozen Pond — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from North Dakota, USA, in 1953, showing three friends ice skating on a frozen pond. A young man in a dark jacket and two women, one in a bright red coat, hold hands and skate together across the icy surface. The scene is set against a rural backdrop with distant houses and a classic car parked nearby. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a warm, nostalgic glow, capturing a candid moment of winter fun and friendship. A dog briefly appears, adding to the authentic, personal feel of the archival footage.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122622201

Rights & Clearance

$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.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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: 1953 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: North Dakota, 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: 1950s North Dakota 8mm home-movie footage supports editorial requests for rural winter recreation, friendship, ice skating, and personal leisure scenes in midcentury America.
Period detail: The visible clothing, parked rounded-body car, rural buildings, and frozen pond setting are consistent with the supplied 1953 North Dakota metadata and may show a midcentury countryside winter outing.
Home-movie behavior: Three young adults hold hands and skate toward the camera in an unstaged home-movie moment, with a dog later crossing the ice as part of the same casual scene.
What appears in frame: The frames show three skaters on a frozen pond, a bright red coat, dark winter clothing, a dog on the ice, a parked vintage car, open fields, distant houses, and dark contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has visible grain, soft focus, blue and amber color shifts, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this clip as a brief memory beat, winter recreation insert, rural-life cutaway, or transition into a sequence about friendship and home movies.
Historical context: The scene documents informal outdoor leisure on a frozen rural pond, with adults skating together near a car and scattered homes rather than at a formal rink.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed, while no logos or readable brands are apparent and copyright status remains separate from personal or property rights clearance.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under 1950s 8mm North Dakota ice skating, rural winter home movie, friends skating on frozen pond, vintage car winter scene, or dog on ice footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1953 North Dakota winter material, then with broader rural recreation, friendship, dog, and midcentury home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In this 1953 North Dakota 8mm frame, three young adults skate hand in hand across a frozen rural pond, with one wearing a red coat and a rounded-body car parked near distant houses. — Three friends skate together on a frozen pond.

Three young adults skate toward the camera on a frozen pond in North Dakota, with a red coat, dark jackets, a parked car, and open rural land visible behind them. — Skaters approach the camera while holding hands.

A dog crosses the icy surface of the rural pond in the same 1953 North Dakota home-movie scene, with blue color cast, open ice, and part of a parked car in the background. — A dog crosses the ice after the skaters.

A dog walks across the frozen pond in a warm-tinted 8mm frame from the North Dakota winter outing, with the surrounding scene mostly reduced to open ice and film-frame borders. — Dog walking across the frozen pond.

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