Joliet Illinois USA-1941: Young Adults Socializing, Eating, And Relaxing In Backyard

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Year1941
Decade1940s
LocationJoliet, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1941 Joliet Illinois

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Young Adults Socializing, Eating, And Relaxing In Backyard — Clip Details

JOLIET ILLINOIS USA-1941: A group of young adults, including men and women in period attire, gather in a casual outdoor setting. The black-and-white 8mm film captures them sitting together, conversing, and sharing a meal. Their clothing reflects 1940s fashion, with women in dresses and men in shirts. The scene has a relaxed, nostalgic mood, with visible film grain and slight camera movement typical of home movies from the era. The setting appears to be a simple courtyard or backyard, with a man in a suit briefly entering the frame. This archival footage offers a candid glimpse into civilian life during World War II.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
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: 124602929

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

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 2070 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: cb hill jr
Reel-level year note: 1941
Reel-level location note: glencoe illinois
Date: 1941 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Joliet, Illinois, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 1940s U.S. home-front social life requests needing candid young adults relaxing outdoors in a backyard or courtyard setting.
Period detail: The clothing, seated poses, and black-and-white 8mm look support the 1941 metadata and may show informal early-1940s civilian dress.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged pauses, eating, conversation, and glances toward the camera among friends or family.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include seated young adults, dresses, a man in work clothes or overalls, a suited figure, chairs, rough exterior walls, hanging lines, and food or hand-held items.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, edge falloff, and slight handheld framing typical of scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, social-history cutaway, or memory beat for everyday youth and leisure in the early 1940s Midwest.
Historical context: The scene documents casual outdoor gathering and social ease among young adults without enough visual evidence to identify a specific event or institution.
Research note: Faces and private property are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed separately from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1941 Joliet Illinois home movie, 1940s young adults socializing, backyard gathering, eating outdoors, and 8mm civilian life footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1941 Joliet material, then broader 1940s Midwest home-movie social scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1941 Joliet, Illinois home-movie footage, young women sit close together outdoors against a rough wall. — Young women sit together in a shaded outdoor corner.

Young women in 1941 Joliet, Illinois sit in an outdoor home setting, one gesturing during conversation. — A seated group appears to converse beside an exterior wall.

The home-movie frame shows three young women seated in a Joliet backyard or courtyard as someone moves through the foreground. — A foreground passerby partially obscures the seated group.

Young adults in 1941 Joliet, Illinois relax outdoors, with a suited man partly visible behind seated friends. — Seated friends and a partly visible suited man occupy the backyard scene.

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