California-1948: Two Smiling Women Holding Babies Beside a Stucco House

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration7s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 · California, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

motherhood and infant care
family portrait
postwar domestic life
1940s fashion
posing for the camera
home and family
childhood

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · low angle
Setting: outdoor · Outside a pale stucco house with windows, in direct sun
Time and weather: day · sunny
Lighting: Hard direct sunlight with deep shadows across the faces
People: 4 · Two adult women with dark rolled hair, one in a blue button-front blouse and one in a white short-sleeved blouse, each holding a baby; one baby wears a white sailor-style cap, the other is fair-haired in a blue jacket and yellow rompers.
Objects: white sailor-style baby cap · blue blouse · white short-sleeved blouse · light blue baby jacket · pale yellow rompers · wristwatch · house windows
Colors: pale pink · violet blue · white · dark brown · pale yellow
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Two women stand side by side by a stucco wall, each holding a baby.
The woman on the right laughs broadly toward the camera.
She turns her head to look at the fair-haired baby in her arms.
The baby in the white sailor cap grins as the woman on the left smiles at the camera.

Two Smiling Women Holding Babies Beside a Stucco House — Clip Details

Probably Southern California, circa 1948 home movie footage of two women standing side by side, each holding a baby, in front of a pale stucco house. The baby on the left wears a white sailor-style cap and a white outfit; the fair-haired baby on the right is in a light blue jacket and pale yellow rompers. Both women smile and laugh toward the camera, then turn to the children. Filmed handheld from a low angle in one medium close 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: 7s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000238

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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: 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: Fits requests for late 1940s American family life, especially colour footage of women with infants for postwar and baby boom era documentaries.
Period detail: Rolled and pinned dark hairstyles, short puffed sleeves, a baby's white sailor-style cap and infant rompers may show late 1940s dress.
Home-movie behavior: The women laugh at whoever is behind the camera and shift the babies in their arms, with one turning to check on the child she holds.
What appears in frame: Two women with rolled hair, a baby in a white sailor-style cap, a fair-haired baby in a blue jacket and yellow rompers, a pale stucco wall, two windows and a sprig of foliage at the left edge.
Film character: Colour 8mm with soft focus, visible grain, dust specks, a pink-violet cast in the highlights and deep sunlit shadows, held slightly unsteady by hand.
Edit role: Works as a short memory beat or cutaway of family warmth between wider scenes of home and garden.
Historical context: It shows an amateur filmmaker recording women and babies outside a house in colour, a common subject of family reels once 8mm colour stock was available from 1936.
Research note: The people are unidentified and include two infants and two adults with visible faces; copyright in the film is separate from likeness and from the private house shown, which need their own assessment.
Research search match: 1940s women holding babies, baby in sailor cap home movie, postwar family 8mm colour film, late 1940s hairstyles on film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the young parents with baby and the family group in the hillside garden of red flowers from the same reel, then with other late 1940s California family footage or baby-themed home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two women with rolled 1940s hair hold babies beside a stucco house, probably Southern California, circa 1948; the woman on the right looks off to the side. — Two women stand side by side holding babies outside a stucco house, circa 1948.
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Woman in a white blouse smiles at the camera with a fair-haired baby in her arms, next to a second woman and baby, probably Southern California, circa 1948. — The woman on the right smiles toward the camera as both hold their babies up for the shot.
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Baby in a white sailor-style cap grins at the camera as a woman turns toward a second baby, in a circa 1948 colour 8mm home movie, likely California. — The baby in the sailor-style cap grins while the woman on the right turns to the child in her arms.
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Woman in a blue blouse smiles from deep sun shadow beside a second woman steadying a fair-haired baby, late 1940s home movie, probably Southern California. — Near the end of the shot the woman on the left smiles at the camera while the other steadies her baby.
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