United States-1958: Girl in a Red Dress Spinning a Hula Hoop on a Lawn

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration8s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 · United States

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What is in this clip

childhood play
toy fads
1950s family life
backyard leisure
hula hoop craze
home movies
mid-century America

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · static · eye level
Setting: outdoor · Residential lawn with a white fence, a white frame house, an evergreen and a dark shrub in the foreground
Time and weather: day · spring or summer · sunny
Lighting: Bright direct sunlight with deep tree and shrub shadows across the grass
People: 1 · One young girl with dark hair in a red dress and white shoes, seen full length at a distance and in soft focus.
Objects: hula hoop · white fence · white frame house · evergreen tree · shrub · post
Colors: green · red · white · black
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A girl in a red dress stands on a lawn with a hula hoop already turning at her waist.
She raises her arms and the hoop swings wide around her hips in front of the white fence.
A brief emulsion blemish crosses the frame while she keeps the hoop going.
The hoop tilts as it circles and she continues spinning it to the end of the shot.

Girl in a Red Dress Spinning a Hula Hoop on a Lawn — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1958 home movie footage shows a young girl in a red dress spinning a hula hoop around her waist on a sunlit lawn. She stands at the centre of the frame in white shoes, arms raised, while the hoop circles her hips. Behind her run a long white fence and a white frame house with a cone-shaped evergreen, and a dark shrub and tree shadows fill the foreground. The single 8mm shot is held from a fixed distance, soft in focus, with grain, dust and a brief emulsion mark.

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: 8s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000340

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: 1958 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: Answers requests for authentic late-1950s American childhood and toy-fad imagery, especially a child using a hula hoop in an ordinary family yard.
Period detail: The plastic hula hoop points to 1958 or shortly after, and the girl's short full-skirted red dress and the white frame house fit the same period.
Home-movie behavior: The girl keeps the hoop going for the camera without any staging beyond a family member filming her from across the lawn.
What appears in frame: A girl in a red dress and white shoes, a hula hoop at her waist, a sunlit lawn, a long white fence, a white frame house with windows, a cone-shaped evergreen and a dark foreground shrub.
Film character: Soft-focus 8mm colour with strong reds and greens, visible grain, dust specks, heavy shadow areas and one brief emulsion blemish mid-shot.
Edit role: Works as a short memory beat or insert in a sequence about 1950s childhood, fads or family leisure.
Historical context: Wham-O launched the plastic Hula Hoop in 1958 and sold an estimated 25 million in four months, and this shot shows the toy in everyday backyard use.
Research note: The film is an anonymous home movie showing a minor and a private house; the face is soft and indistinct, but likeness and property considerations remain separate from copyright in the footage.
Research search match: 1950s girl hula hoop home movie, circa 1958 backyard childhood 8mm, vintage toy fad amateur film, girl in red dress on lawn.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the 1950s gas station and fox hunt clips from the same reel, then with other late-1950s American yard footage and other toy or playtime clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1958 8mm home movie frame of a girl in a red dress spinning a hula hoop on a lawn in the United States, hoop tilted out to one side. — A girl in a red dress starts the hoop turning on a sunlit lawn, circa 1958.
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Girl with arms raised keeps a hula hoop circling her hips in a yard in the United States, circa 1958, in soft-focus 8mm colour film. — Arms raised, she keeps the hoop circling at hip height in front of the white fence.
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Circa 1958 home movie frame of a girl hula hooping on a lawn in the United States, with a vertical emulsion blemish visible on the 8mm film. — A brief emulsion blemish runs down the frame as the girl continues with the hoop.
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Hula hoop swings in a wide tilted ring around a girl in a red dress on a sunlit lawn in the United States, circa 1958 8mm home movie. — The hoop shows as a wide tilted ring around the girl near the end of the shot.
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