Buffalo New York-1944: Child Lying On Stomach Sled Gliding Down Snowy Slope

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Year1944
Decade1940s
LocationBuffalo, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1944 Buffalo New York

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Child Lying On Stomach Sled Gliding Down Snowy Slope — Clip Details

A child in winter clothing lies on their stomach on a sled, gliding down a snow-covered slope in Buffalo, New York, in 1944. The 8mm home movie footage captures the child sliding across a snowy field with bare trees in the background. As the sled moves, a vintage car and a small group of people appear in the distance, adding context to the winter recreation. The grainy, monochrome image and film artifacts reflect the era's home movie style, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century winter play.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124746609

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 2268 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: uncle max,jospeh forgang
Reel-level year note: 1944
Reel-level location note: bronx new york,coney island
Date: 1944 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: Buffalo, New York, 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: This clip supports 1940s home-front era winter recreation requests for documentaries, museum programs, education pieces, and period family-life edits.
Period detail: The snowy park-like setting, sled, bare trees, and distant parked cars may show mid-1940s winter leisure in Buffalo, New York.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged home-movie view of a child sledding while bystanders and cars remain casual background details.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a prone sled rider, snow-covered slope, bare trees, distant people, parked cars, soft focus, and dark film borders.
Film character: The 8mm footage has monochrome grain, uneven exposure, gate borders, and slight blur that give the scene a tactile home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter childhood insert, a seasonal transition, or a brief memory beat within a family or local-history sequence.
Historical context: The frames place winter play in an open snowy landscape with nearby observers, suggesting ordinary neighborhood recreation rather than a staged event.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos or private property are clearly identifiable in these frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s Buffalo sledding footage, 8mm winter home movie, child on sled in snow, and vintage snowy recreation scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel winter scenes, then Buffalo 1944 footage, then broader 1940s snow play or family recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1944 Buffalo home-movie footage, a child lies prone on a sled gliding over snow beneath bare trees. — A prone sled rider moves across a snowy open slope, framed by bare winter trees.

The sled rider glides across the snowy Buffalo scene as bare trees and a distant car appear in the background. — The sled continues across the snow with a parked car and winter trees in the distance.

A child on a sled crosses the snow as distant people and parked cars become visible in the 1944 Buffalo footage. — The sled rider passes below a distant group of people standing near cars in the snow.

The final frame shows the sled rider on a snowy Buffalo slope with distant bystanders, cars, and bare trees. — A small sled rider remains in the foreground while people and cars blur in the snowy distance.

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