Connecticut-1947: Woman in Blue Playsuit and Small Girl Walk a Gravel Lane With Beach Ball

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Year1947
Decade1940s
LocationConnecticut, United States
Duration3s
Price$149 USD
Collection1947 · Connecticut, United States

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What is in this clip

summer leisure
walking to the beach
postwar family life
1940s women's fashion
childhood
rural roads

Shot type: medium
Camera: static · handheld
Setting: outdoor · Unpaved gravel residential lane lined with shade trees, roadside mailboxes, a grass verge and a house in the background
Time and weather: midday · summer · sunny
Lighting: Bright overhead sunlight on the lane with deep shade under the trees
People: 2 · An adult woman in a light blue bib-front playsuit, sunglasses and sandals, and a small girl in a two-piece swimsuit carrying a bundle
Objects: beach ball · sunglasses · red towel or cloth · rural mailboxes · white-painted rock · bundle of beach things · house
Colors: light blue · pale grey · dark green · red
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A woman and a small girl walk up a gravel lane toward the camera.
The woman smiles, a striped beach ball under her arm, with mailboxes behind her.
The girl drifts toward the left edge of frame as the pair come closer.
The woman fills a medium shot while the girl raises a hand to her face.

Woman in Blue Playsuit and Small Girl Walk a Gravel Lane... — Clip Details

Probably coastal Connecticut, circa 1947, home movie footage of a woman in a light blue playsuit and dark sunglasses walking along a sunlit gravel lane toward the camera, a red, white and blue beach ball under one arm with a red cloth draped over it. A small girl in a two-piece swimsuit walks beside her, hugging a bundle of beach things. Shade trees, roadside mailboxes and a house stand behind them. The single handheld shot holds still as the pair approach from full figure to medium framing.

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: 3s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000092

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: Answers requests for circa-1940s American summer leisure, family outings and women's casual fashion in documentary, museum or nostalgic commercial work.
Period detail: The high-waisted bib-front playsuit, round dark sunglasses, unpaved lane and rural mailboxes may show a late-1940s small-town or shore-community setting.
Home-movie behavior: An unstaged walk toward a family camera, with the woman smiling into the lens and the child half-distracted at her side, catches ordinary summer intimacy.
What appears in frame: A woman in a blue playsuit, a tricolor beach ball with a red cloth over it, a small girl with an armful of beach things, roadside mailboxes, shade trees and a house.
Film character: Soft cyan and red color rendition, near-black shadows, visible grain, dust flecks and gentle softness give it the texture of projected small-gauge reversal film.
Edit role: Works as a memory beat or cutaway between beach scenes, or as a transition showing a family arriving at or leaving the shore.
Historical context: Unpaved residential roads and casual playsuits were common sights in postwar American summers, and color home movies of this kind became possible after 8mm color film arrived in 1936.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from the likeness of the identifiable woman and minor, who are unnamed, and from the visible private house and mailboxes; no clearance is implied.
Research search match: 1940s woman carrying beach ball, vintage color home movie of mother figure and child, late-1940s playsuit fashion, summer walk on a gravel lane.
Archive pairing path: Cut it first beside the man folding a towel and the toddler being dried from this same reel, then the girls in floral swimsuits, and later the children splashing with a ball in the water, before reaching for other late-1940s New England summer outings.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1947 home movie, probably Connecticut: woman with tricolor beach ball and small girl walking a tree-lined gravel lane — A woman and a small girl set off along a gravel lane with a beach ball, circa 1947.
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Late-1940s summer scene, likely New England: woman in sunglasses and playsuit with beach ball beside a girl, mailboxes behind — Sunglasses, a bib-front playsuit and a tricolor ball mark the woman's summer outfit, circa 1947.
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Circa 1947 color home movie, probably coastal Connecticut: smiling girl and woman approach the camera on a sunny lane — The girl grins as the pair draw close to the camera on the sunny lane.
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Medium shot from a circa 1947 home movie, likely Connecticut: woman in blue playsuit holding a tricolor beach ball — Medium shot of the woman with the beach ball as the girl slips out of frame, circa 1947.
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