California-1948: Smiling Young Man and Woman Holding a Baby Outside a Stucco House

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration9s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 · California, United States

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What is in this clip

young family
infancy
postwar domestic life
posing for the camera
affection
1940s fashion
family gathering

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · slightly low angle
Setting: outdoor · Outside a pale stucco house with a louvred window, in strong sunlight with deep shadow on one side
Time and weather: daytime · sunny
Lighting: Hard direct sunlight on the right side of the frame, deep shadow on the left
People: 5 · A young fair-haired man in a pale yellow camp-collar shirt and belted dark trousers; a dark-haired woman with a rolled hairstyle in a white puff-sleeved blouse and floral skirt holding a fair-haired baby in a blue cardigan; a second woman and a small child partly visible at lower left.
Objects: camp-collar shirt · leather belt · puff-sleeved blouse · floral skirt · baby cardigan · louvred window shutters · stucco wall
Colors: pale yellow · white · light blue · lavender pink · dark brown
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The man bends down while the woman holds the baby up against the sunlit wall.
The woman raises the baby's arm in a wave as the man stands up and grins.
The baby sits on the woman's hip and both adults look toward the camera.
The woman adjusts the baby's cardigan while the man smiles beside her.
The woman presses her cheek to the baby's head and the man looks down, laughing.

Smiling Young Man and Woman Holding a Baby Outside a... — Clip Details

Probably Southern California, circa 1948 home movie footage of a young man in a pale yellow camp-collar shirt standing beside a dark-haired woman who holds a baby in a blue cardigan outside a light stucco house. The woman lifts the baby's arm in a wave, then settles the child on her hip and presses her cheek to its head while the man grins and looks down. Another woman and a small child are partly visible at the lower left. Filmed handheld from a slightly low angle in one medium shot on colour 8mm film, with soft focus and strong sunlight.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 9s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000237

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Answers requests for colour footage of a young American couple with a baby in the late 1940s, for documentaries and exhibits on postwar family life.
Period detail: The woman's rolled hairstyle and puff-sleeved blouse, the man's camp-collar shirt and the saturated colour stock point to the late 1940s.
Home-movie behavior: The adults laugh and fuss with the baby for a relative's camera, lifting its arm to wave and nuzzling its head rather than holding a formal pose.
What appears in frame: A smiling man in a yellow shirt, a woman in a white blouse and floral skirt, a baby in a blue cardigan, a sunlit stucco wall, a louvred window, and a second woman and child at the frame edge.
Film character: Soft-focus handheld 8mm colour with warm saturated tones, a faint magenta cast in the highlights, deep shadows and light dust specks.
Edit role: Works as a brief memory beat or family-portrait insert under narration about young households and new babies.
Historical context: The clip shows an informal outdoor family portrait of the kind amateur colour 8mm film made possible after Kodachrome reached that gauge in 1936.
Research note: The individuals are unidentified private persons with recognisable faces, including a baby and a child; copyright in the film is separate from likeness and private-property considerations.
Research search match: 1940s couple with baby home movie, young family outside stucco house, colour 8mm postwar family portrait, woman holding baby vintage footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the two mothers holding babies and the hillside garden family group from the same reel, then with other late-1940s California family footage or baby portraits.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1948 8mm home movie frame, probably California: a woman raises a baby's arm to wave while a young man in a camp-collar shirt grins beside her. — The woman lifts the baby's arm in a wave as the man laughs; a second woman and child are visible at lower left.
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Young man and a woman with a baby on her hip look toward the camera outside a stucco house, probably California, circa 1948, on colour 8mm film. — Man, woman and baby face the camera in bright sunlight outside the house.
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Late-1940s home movie frame, probably Southern California: a woman tends to the baby she holds as a smiling man in a belted camp shirt stands alongside. — The woman looks down and adjusts the baby's cardigan while the man smiles toward the camera.
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Circa 1948 colour 8mm frame, likely California: a woman nuzzles a baby while the man beside her laughs, with another woman and child at the lower left. — The woman rests her cheek against the baby's head as the man looks down, laughing.
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