United States-1955: Smiling Girl Swinging on a Red Backyard Swing Set by a Porch House

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only. $149 flat from Stockfilm for documentary, news and educational use, plus internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1955 · United States

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Before you add to cart: 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. Checkout will only offer editorial, educational, internal and social/web scopes.

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Explore this year and place

Compare featured footage, popular clips and the full collection.

Same year and place1955 · United StatesExplore footage →Across the archiveFilmed in 1955Explore the year →Across the yearsUnited StatesExplore the place →

What is in this clip

childhood
backyard play
summer
suburban life
family home movies
mid-century America
joy

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · static · eye level, at about the child's height
Setting: outdoor · Residential yard with a mown lawn, a red metal swing set, shrubs, and a white two-story frame house with a covered porch across a road
Time and weather: daytime · summer · fair and bright
Lighting: Bright natural daylight with deep shade at the right edge
People: 1 · One young girl with short dark hair, wearing a light sleeveless top, pale belt, dark shorts and white socks, smiling as she swings.
Objects: red swing set frame · swing chains · swing seat · porch posts · shrubs
Colors: green · red · white · dark brown
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

Select a time to watch that moment in the preview.

The girl swings up close to the camera, smiling, with the white porch house behind her.
She drops back low over the lawn, still smiling, hands on the chains.
She leans back on a forward pass with her legs and white socks stretched out.
She rises again past the red frame as the shot ends.

Smiling Girl Swinging on a Red Backyard Swing Set by a... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1955 home movie footage shows a young girl in a sleeveless top and shorts swinging toward and away from the camera on a red-framed backyard swing set. She smiles at the lens as she rises close, then drops back over the lawn. Behind her stand a white two-story frame house with a covered porch, shrubs and a pale strip of road. The single handheld 8mm colour shot is soft in focus, with warm, saturated greens and 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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000561

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: 1955 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Answers requests for authentic circa 1955 American childhood and backyard play footage for documentaries, museum pieces and nostalgia-led commercial work.
Period detail: The red tubular swing set, the girl's sleeveless top with belted shorts and white socks, and the porch-fronted frame house may show a mid-1950s American neighbourhood.
Home-movie behavior: The girl smiles straight at the family camera each time she swings close, an unposed reaction to being filmed at play.
What appears in frame: A smiling girl on a swing, the red metal frame at the left edge, a green lawn, a white two-story house with a covered porch, low shrubs, a pale road and a dark tree mass at right.
Film character: Soft-focus standard 8mm colour with warm saturated greens and reds, visible grain, motion blur on the swinging figure and a slightly unsteady handheld frame.
Edit role: Works as a short memory beat or rhythmic insert, with the back-and-forth motion giving clean cut points at each end of the arc.
Historical context: It shows a child playing on home swing equipment in a residential yard, a common subject of family filming in the standard 8mm era before Super 8 arrived in 1965.
Research note: The child is unidentified and her face is visible though soft, and a private house appears behind her, so likeness and property questions stand apart from copyright in the film.
Research search match: 1950s girl on swing home movie, vintage 8mm backyard swing set, mid-century childhood summer footage, child swinging toward camera archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with Girl posing by pink flowers and Family portrait by the clothesline from the same reel, then with other circa 1955 American backyard footage and childhood play clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1955 8mm frame of a smiling girl swinging close to the camera in a yard in the United States, a white porch house behind. — The girl swings up close to the camera, smiling, with a porch-fronted frame house across the lawn.
License this still · $49

Girl in a sleeveless top and shorts seated on a backyard swing, circa 1955 home movie frame from the United States with a covered porch behind. — Mid-arc on the swing, the girl holds the chains with the covered porch and lawn visible behind her.
License this still · $49

Smiling girl leaning back on a swing with her legs out over the lawn, circa 1955 8mm home movie frame, United States. — The girl leans back with her legs out and white socks showing as she swings low over the grass.
License this still · $49

Girl's legs and red swing seat at the top of the arc in a circa 1955 backyard home movie frame from the United States. — At the high point of the arc the girl's head leaves the frame, showing her legs, the red seat and the yard beyond.
License this still · $49

Visually Similar Clips