Alabama-1958: Man Cracking Open Coconut Outdoors

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationAlabama, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Alabama

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Man Cracking Open Coconut Outdoors — Clip Details

ALABAMA-1958: A man in a light-colored short-sleeve shirt and glasses kneels on a driveway, carefully using a tool to crack open a coconut. The scene unfolds on a sunny day in a suburban backyard, with green grass and bushes in the background. The footage, shot on 8mm film, captures the man's focused effort, with a second person briefly visible in the frame. The warm, slightly faded colors and film grain evoke a nostalgic, mid-century American home movie aesthetic.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 125504600

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: 1958 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: Alabama, 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: Useful for requests needing 1950s Alabama home-movie footage of informal backyard activity, domestic leisure, or a mid-century man handling a coconut for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The light short-sleeve shirt, glasses, driveway setting, clipped lawn, and 8mm color stock may show a late-1950s suburban home environment.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged concentration of a man kneeling outdoors and working by hand while another person briefly enters the family-film scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a kneeling man with glasses, a coconut, a hand tool, a sunny driveway, grass, shrubs, brick edging, and a second person partly visible in some frames.
Film character: The clip has warm faded color, visible grain, soft focus, and slight handheld instability typical of scanned 8mm home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, domestic-life cutaway, or transition within a sequence about mid-century family routines or leisure.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for casual outdoor household activity in Alabama in 1958 without making broader claims about the family or neighborhood.
Research note: People are visible, including an identifiable adult face, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright and any location or property assessment.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1958 Alabama 8mm home movie, man cracking coconut, backyard driveway, mid-century domestic footage, and vintage family film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Alabama 1958 home movies, then broader 1950s backyard or domestic-task footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1958 Alabama home-movie footage, a man with glasses kneels on a sunny driveway and works with a coconut near a hand tool. — A man kneels on the driveway and begins working on a coconut.

The man leans over the coconut on a sunny Alabama driveway, with grass and dark shrubs behind him in the 8mm frame. — The man leans forward as he works the coconut open.

A man in glasses crouches over the coconut on the driveway, framed by lawn, shrubs, and sunlit mid-century home-movie color. — The man continues cracking the coconut on the driveway.

The man stands in the sunny yard holding the coconut, while a second person is partly visible near the edge of the 8mm frame. — The man stands with the coconut as the backyard scene shifts.

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