California-1948: Baby Clapping on a Porch With an Oil Derrick on the Skyline

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only. $149 flat from Stockfilm for documentary, news and educational use, plus internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration8s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 · California, United States

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Before you add to cart: 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. Checkout will only offer editorial, educational, internal and social/web scopes.

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Explore this year and place

Compare featured footage, popular clips and the full collection.

Same year and place1948 · California, United StatesExplore footage →Across the archiveFilmed in 1948Explore the year →Across the yearsCalifornia, United StatesExplore the place →

What is in this clip

infancy
family life
oil industry
home and industry side by side
postwar domestic life
childhood milestones
California oil fields

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · eye level
Setting: outdoor · Shaded house porch looking out over a flat green field with an oil derrick
Time and weather: day · Hazy and bright
Lighting: Shaded foreground under a porch roof against a bright, hazy sky and sunlit field
People: 2 · A baby with fine light hair in a patterned short-sleeved romper, and a dark-haired adult seen partly from the side at the right edge of the frame.
Objects: oil derrick · porch rail · porch post · building eave · patterned romper
Colors: blue-violet · pale green · off-white · dark purple
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

Select a time to watch that moment in the preview.

A baby in a patterned romper sits on a shaded porch with an oil derrick on the skyline behind.
The camera drifts and the baby lifts its head, looking off to the side.
The baby leans and reaches an arm toward the adult at the right edge of the frame.
The baby brings its hands together in a clap and holds them at its chest.

Baby Clapping on a Porch With an Oil Derrick on the Skyline — Clip Details

California, circa 1948 home movie footage, probably shot in the Los Angeles Basin oil country. A baby in a patterned short-sleeved romper sits on a shaded porch beside a dark-haired adult seen at the right edge of the frame. Beyond the porch rail a tall steel-lattice oil derrick rises over a flat green field with a tree line on the hazy horizon. The baby looks around, reaches toward the adult, then presses its hands together in a clap; it is a single handheld 8mm colour shot, soft in focus with a cool blue cast.

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: 8s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000183

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

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: 1948 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: California, 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.

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Helps with requests for 1940s California domestic life set against oil production, especially documentaries on the Los Angeles Basin fields and families who lived beside them.
Period detail: A tall steel-lattice oil derrick stands in an open field close to the house, and the baby's patterned short-sleeved romper may show 1940s infant clothing.
Home-movie behavior: The camera operator simply follows the baby as it looks around, reaches for the adult beside it and claps, with no posing or direction evident.
What appears in frame: A baby in a patterned romper, a dark-haired adult at the frame edge, a horizontal porch rail and pale post, a neighbouring roof eave, a steel oil derrick, a green field and a hazy tree line.
Film character: 8mm colour film with soft foreground focus, a cool blue-violet shift, a shadowed porch against a bright sky, visible grain and scattered dust specks, held by hand.
Edit role: Works as a short memory beat or archival insert linking family life to the oil landscape, and as a cutaway inside a sequence about growing up near the fields.
Historical context: Derricks stood among homes across the Los Angeles Basin after the early-1920s discoveries, and this frame shows one as the plain backdrop to a family porch.
Research note: The people are unidentified private individuals including a minor, and the house is private property; copyright in the film is separate from likeness and property permissions, which a licensee should assess for its use.
Research search match: Baby on porch with oil derrick, 1940s California oil field home movie, derrick near houses 8mm, postwar family life beside oil wells.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's baby in walker with father on sidewalk and baby with a real estate For Sale sign, then other California oil-field footage of the 1940s, then period baby home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

Baby in a patterned romper looks down on a California porch, circa 1948, with a steel oil derrick in the field beyond the rail. — The baby looks down at its hands on the porch while a steel oil derrick rises over the field behind. California, circa 1948.
License this still · $49

Baby sits upright and looks aside on a porch in California oil country, circa 1948, a tall derrick clear against the hazy sky. — The baby sits upright and glances aside, with the full height of the oil derrick visible over the flat field. California, circa 1948.
License this still · $49

Baby leans and reaches toward a dark-haired adult on a porch, circa 1948 California, an oil derrick standing in the distance. — The baby leans over and reaches toward the adult beside it, the derrick still in view past the porch rail. California, circa 1948.
License this still · $49

Baby claps its hands together on a shaded porch in California, circa 1948, with a steel oil derrick on the flat skyline. — The baby brings its hands together in a clap, framed against the oil derrick on the skyline. California, circa 1948.
License this still · $49

Visually Similar Clips