United States-1952: Young Blond Boy Blowing Out Candles on a Christmas-Decorated Birthday Cake

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1952 · United States

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What is in this clip

birthday celebration
childhood
family ritual
Christmas season
making a wish
mid-century food culture

Shot type: detail
Camera: static · handheld
Setting: indoor · home interior tabletop at a family birthday party
Time and weather: unknown (indoor artificial light) · winter
Lighting: bright artificial light, warm cast
People: 1 · A young blond boy seen in partial profile at the top right as he leans down to blow out the candles; a child's hand appears at the right edge.
Objects: white sheet cake · thin candles · piped red poinsettias · teal holly leaves · red Santa hat design · pink frosting script · ruffled glass dish
Readable signs: Happy Birthday
Colors: pink-white · red · teal · dark brown
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Close view of the decorated sheet cake with thin candles alight.
A young blond boy leans in from the top right to blow.
The flames are out and the boy lifts his head away.
The cake rests with its candles unlit as the shot ends.

Young Blond Boy Blowing Out Candles on a... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1952, home movie footage shows a close view of a white sheet cake piped with red poinsettias, teal holly leaves, a red Santa hat design and pink script, with thin candles burning. A young blond boy leans in from the top right, blows the flames out and lifts his head away again. The single static shot is filmed from just above the table, with a ruffled glass dish at the upper corner and warm, soft 8mm colour.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
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: 800000232

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: 1952 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: 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: It fills a request for an authentic early-1950s American birthday moment, a child blowing out candles, for documentary, education or nostalgic commercial work.
Period detail: The hand-piped poinsettia, holly and Santa decoration, the thin taper candles and the ruffled glass serving dish may show typical early-1950s home celebration style.
Home-movie behavior: A parent films the cake up close and catches the boy ducking into frame to blow, an unstaged moment framed on the cake, not the child.
What appears in frame: A scalloped white sheet cake, red poinsettias and teal holly leaves in icing, a red Santa hat design, pink script, thin lit candles, a glass dish, and a blond boy's head leaning in.
Film character: Warm 8mm colour with a pink cast in the whites, soft focus, fine grain and a few dust specks and a gate fibre give it a clear original-film texture.
Edit role: It works as a quick memory-beat insert or cutaway inside a birthday sequence, or as a transition into a childhood or holiday segment.
Historical context: The Christmas motifs on a birthday cake show how a December birthday in an American household of the period could merge with holiday decoration.
Research note: The underlying film's copyright is separate from the likeness of the minor shown in partial profile and from the private home setting; identities are unknown and no release is implied.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1950s birthday candles home movie, vintage 8mm child birthday cake, or Christmas themed birthday cake archive footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's child eating birthday cake at party table, pineapple-glazed baked ham and boys with toy black cat figures, then its Christmas morning clips, then other circa 1950s birthday footage.

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Young blond boy leaning over a poinsettia birthday cake to blow out candles, circa 1952 home movie, USA. — A young boy leans in to blow out the candles, circa 1952.
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