South Dakota USA-1954: Three Friends Sitting And Eating Foods On A Picnic Blanket

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Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationSouth Dakota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1954 South Dakota

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Three Friends Sitting And Eating Foods On A Picnic Blanket — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1954 in South Dakota, capturing three friends enjoying a picnic in a wooded park. The group sits on a blanket on the grass, eating food from bowls under dappled sunlight filtering through trees. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with a distinct blue color cast, grain, and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, retro atmosphere. The subjects wear casual 1950s attire, including collared shirts, as they share a meal in a relaxed outdoor setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122625508

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1954 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: South 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s U.S. home-movie requests needing casual outdoor leisure, picnic, friendship, or everyday social life footage for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The collared shirts, simple picnic setup, and metadata-supported 1954 South Dakota setting place the scene in midcentury everyday recreation without visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged picnic moment as friends sit close together, eat from bowls, and talk casually on a blanket in a wooded park.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include three adults, a picnic blanket, bowls, food containers, grass, trees, dappled sunlight, and strong shadow across the group.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, blue color shift, heavy contrast, grain, and slight handheld framing that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, memory beat, or cutaway for midcentury leisure, outdoor meals, friendship, or family-reel atmosphere.
Historical context: The footage shows informal social eating outdoors, suggesting ordinary postwar-era leisure without supporting any specific event, institution, or public gathering.
Research note: Adults' faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos, private property, or children are apparent, and copyright status is separate from depicted-person clearance.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s South Dakota picnic, vintage 8mm park lunch, home movie friends eating outdoors, and midcentury casual leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1954 South Dakota material, then with 1950s picnic, park, food, and friendship scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 South Dakota home-movie frame showing three adults seated on a picnic blanket in a wooded park, partly obscured by deep shadow. — Three friends sit together on a shaded picnic blanket beneath trees.

1954 South Dakota picnic scene with adults seated on the grass around bowls and containers, framed by trees and strong dappled light. — Picnic food and seated friends are visible through shifting sun and shade.

Three adults in casual 1950s clothing sit on a picnic blanket in South Dakota, eating and talking amid trees and grass. — The group gathers closely around bowls and picnic supplies on the grass.

A clearer 1954 South Dakota frame shows friends seated beside picnic bowls and containers on a blanket in a wooded park. — Friends continue eating on the blanket as sunlight falls across the park grass.

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