Connecticut-1947: Smiling Woman Towels a Toddler in a Red Swimsuit as a Boy Looks On

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Year1947
Decade1940s
LocationConnecticut, United States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1947 · Connecticut, United States

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What is in this clip

motherhood and childcare
summer leisure
childhood
family at the shore
1940s fashion
drying off after swimming

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld
Setting: outdoor · Rocky shoreline edge with large grey boulders backed by dense deciduous trees
Time and weather: day · summer · fair, bright with shade from trees
Lighting: natural daylight, partly shaded
People: 3 · A dark-haired adult woman in a striped sunsuit with a white ruffled neckline and a bracelet, a blonde toddler in a red patterned one-piece swimsuit, and a wet-haired boy in yellow patterned trunks
Objects: white towel · red patterned swimsuit · striped sunsuit · yellow patterned swim trunks · bracelet · boulders
Colors: deep green · grey · red · pale blue-white · warm skin tones
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The woman leans in and towels the toddler's chest as the boy watches.
She draws back smiling, holding the white towel at the child's side.
She laughs toward the camera while the boy peers over the toddler's shoulder.
The toddler raises a hand to its face and the boy leans closer.

Smiling Woman Towels a Toddler in a Red Swimsuit as a... — Clip Details

Probably the Connecticut shore, circa 1947, home movie footage of a summer day among rocks and trees. A smiling dark-haired woman in a striped sunsuit with a white ruffled neckline towels a blonde toddler in a red patterned swimsuit while a wet-haired boy stands close behind. Large grey boulders and dense green foliage fill the background. The single handheld medium shot is soft in focus, with deep greens and warm skin tones from period colour reversal film.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000090

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.

Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1947 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: Connecticut, 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: Serves requests for circa 1947 colour footage of American family summer life, especially a caring mother-and-child moment for documentaries on postwar domestic life.
Period detail: The woman's striped sunsuit with a ruffled white neckline, her pinned-back dark hair and the children's patterned swimwear may show late-1940s summer fashion.
Home-movie behavior: The woman is caught mid-task drying the toddler, then breaks into a laugh toward the camera, an unstaged family moment filmed by someone close to the group.
What appears in frame: A smiling woman in a striped sunsuit, a blonde toddler in a red patterned swimsuit, a wet-haired boy behind them, a white towel, grey boulders and a canopy of green leaves.
Film character: Soft focus, deep cyan-leaning greens, warm saturated reds and a handheld frame give the clip the texture of period small-gauge colour reversal film, with a stray hair and speck at the start.
Edit role: Works as a short memory beat or emotional cutaway inside a summer or family sequence, ending on the woman's glance to camera.
Historical context: Colour home-movie film had been available to amateurs since 1936, and scenes like this record how families spent summer days at the shore in the years after the war.
Research note: The woman and two minors have identifiable faces and their identities are unknown; copyright in the film is separate from the likeness rights of those shown, and no logos, artwork or buildings appear.
Research search match: Searches such as 1940s mother drying child home movie, vintage toddler red swimsuit footage, colour home movie New England shore, or circa 1947 family summer film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's girls in 1940s swimsuits, the man folding a towel and the woman with a beach ball, then other late-1940s New England shore footage, then childcare and summer-leisure clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1947 home movie, likely Connecticut shore: woman leans in to dry a toddler in a red swimsuit as a wet-haired boy watches — A woman bends to towel a toddler's chest beside shoreline boulders, circa 1947.
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Smiling woman in a ruffled striped sunsuit dries a blonde toddler on a rocky, wooded shore, probably Connecticut, circa 1947 — The woman straightens, smiling, and keeps drying the toddler with a white towel.
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Late-1940s colour home movie: laughing woman, toddler in red swimsuit and boy pose by shoreline rocks, likely New England — The woman laughs toward the camera as the boy peeks over the toddler's shoulder.
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Circa 1947 shore scene, probably Connecticut: toddler lifts a hand to its face between a smiling woman and a boy — The toddler lifts a hand to its face as the woman and boy lean in close.
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