Florida-1959: Cardinals Player Smiling Beside a Visitor Handling a Wooden Bat

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration3s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 · Florida, United States

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What is in this clip

baseball
spring training
fan and player encounter
sports uniforms
1950s leisure
amateur filmmaking
Florida tourism

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · eye level
Setting: outdoor · shaded area at a ballpark with a dark background and one bright opening at upper left
Time and weather: daytime · spring · sunny
Lighting: direct daylight on the figures against deep shadow
People: 2 · A man in a grey Cardinals road jersey with red undersleeves, smiling, and a man in a white short-sleeved shirt, light trousers, pale cap and wristwatch handling a bat; the edge of a third person's arm shows at far left.
Objects: wooden baseball bat · baseball jersey · cap · wristwatch · belt · baseball glove
Colors: red · grey · white · black · pale blue
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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A visitor in a white shirt holds a wooden bat out level in front of a smiling Cardinals player.
The visitor pulls the bat back and turns it upright in both hands.
The player smiles toward the camera side, hands together at his waist.
The visitor lowers the bat barrel toward the ground while the player looks on.

Cardinals Player Smiling Beside a Visitor Handling a... — Clip Details

Florida, circa 1959 home movie footage of a ballplayer in a grey St. Louis Cardinals road jersey with red undersleeves standing beside a man in a white short-sleeved shirt and light cap. The visitor holds a wooden bat out level, then lowers it and sets the barrel down while the player smiles and looks off to the side. Filmed in a single close handheld shot on 8mm colour film against a dark, shaded background, with soft focus and strong reds.

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: 3s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000508

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.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1959 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: Florida, 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 late-1950s colour amateur footage of major league players with visitors, for baseball documentaries and mid-century Americana sequences.
Period detail: The grey flannel road jersey with birds-on-bat emblem and red undersleeves, and the visitor's short-sleeved white shirt and pale cap, point to the late 1950s.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor fiddles with a bat beside a grinning ballplayer who waits good-naturedly for the camera, the kind of informal access a family filmmaker got at spring training.
What appears in frame: A smiling player in a grey Cardinals jersey with red sleeves, a man in a white shirt and pale cap, a wooden bat, a wristwatch, a dark shaded background and a bright opening at upper left.
Film character: Soft-focus 8mm colour with visible grain, saturated reds, a cool cast in the whites and slight handheld drift, with the figures lit hard against deep shadow.
Edit role: Works as a short insert or memory beat showing a fan beside a ballplayer, cut between wider ballpark or game footage.
Historical context: The Cardinals trained in St. Petersburg, Florida, in this period, and the clip shows the casual closeness between players and visitors common at spring camps.
Research note: Two men's faces are visible though soft, neither is identified, and the jersey carries a team emblem; likeness and trademark questions are separate from the film copyright.
Research search match: 1950s Cardinals player home movie, fan with baseball bat 8mm, Florida spring training colour film, vintage road uniform red sleeves.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's other shots of visitors with Cardinals players and its ballpark game scenes, then with other late-1950s Florida reels and vintage baseball footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Visitor holding a wooden bat across a St. Louis Cardinals player in grey road uniform, Florida, circa 1959, 8mm home movie. — A visitor in a white shirt holds a bat out in front of a Cardinals player in road greys, Florida, circa 1959.
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Smiling St. Louis Cardinals player beside a visitor gripping a bat upright, Florida spring training setting, circa 1959. — The player smiles to the side as the visitor turns the bat upright in both hands.
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Cardinals player in road greys smiling with hands together at his waist next to a capped visitor, Florida, circa 1959. — The Cardinals player grins toward the camera side, hands together at his waist, with the visitor looking down beside him.
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Visitor lowering a wooden bat beside a St. Louis Cardinals player holding a glove, circa 1959 Florida 8mm film. — The visitor sets the bat barrel down while the player, holding what appears to be a glove, looks on.
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