New Jersey-1958: Child Playing in Park with Playground in Background

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 New Jersey

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Child Playing in Park with Playground in Background — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a young child in a light-colored outfit standing in a sun-drenched park. The footage shows a grassy area with trees and a playground structure in the background, with the child appearing to play or interact with an object. The image is grainy and slightly faded, with visible film scratches and dust, characteristic of Super 8 home movie footage from the late 1950s. The overall mood is nostalgic and candid, offering a glimpse into mid-century American family life.

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: 125506812

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: 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: New Jersey, 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 New Jersey home-movie requests needing brief park or childhood recreation footage for documentary, museum, education, or period family-life edits.
Period detail: The light clothing, open lawn, trees, and simple playground equipment may show mid-century suburban park recreation, supported by the 1958 New Jersey metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value as a small child appears to play or pause in a park while the camera observes from a family perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a child in light clothing, grass, trees, benches or low park fixtures, playground rails, bright daylight, and heavy film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, faded color, visible dust and scratches, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short childhood-memory insert, park-life cutaway, family-history transition, or quiet visual beat within a 1950s sequence.
Historical context: The footage provides a modest visual record of outdoor family recreation in a New Jersey park without identifying the people, exact park, or occasion.
Research note: People and a likely child are visible, so likeness and minor-use review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright status is separate from depicted-person clearance.
Research search match: Searches this may match include 1958 New Jersey 8mm park footage, 1950s child playing home movie, vintage playground family film, and suburban park cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1958 New Jersey park or family footage, then broader 1950s childhood and playground scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New Jersey home-movie frame showing a small child in light clothing standing in a sunlit park with trees and low park fixtures behind. — A child stands in a bright grassy park, seen through a soft, faded 8mm frame.

1958 New Jersey park footage with a child in light clothing standing on grass, framed by trees and distant playground or park equipment. — The child remains in the park as trees and low structures blur in the background.

A child appears near low playground rails in a 1958 New Jersey home-movie frame, with another person partly visible at the right edge. — A child is seen close to playground equipment while another figure is partly in frame.

1958 New Jersey home-movie frame showing low playground rails and a small childlike figure in a bright park with trees in the background. — Playground rails cross the frame as a small figure appears in the park beyond.

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