Pennsylvania-1972: Wet-Haired Baby at Bath Time Turns to Look at the Camera

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationPennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 · Pennsylvania, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1972 · Pennsylvania · Reel ce4a50d2 contains 2 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

infancy
bath time
family life
domestic routine
childhood memory
amateur filmmaking
parenthood

Shot type: close-up
Camera: handheld · eye level with the baby, side-on
Setting: indoor · dim home interior at bath time, plain wall behind
Time and weather: unknown (interior)
Lighting: dim indoor light with a heavy green cast
People: 1 · One baby with wet, slicked-back hair and bare shoulders, seen from the chest up, first in profile and then facing the camera.
Objects: plain wall · two dark upright rectangular shapes · pale object at upper right
Colors: green · dark green · black · pale teal
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The baby is in profile with wet hair, head bowed and looking down.
The baby keeps looking down as the handheld camera holds close on head and shoulders.
The baby turns and looks wide-eyed straight at the camera.
The baby's gaze drops again and the head turns back toward profile.

Wet-Haired Baby at Bath Time Turns to Look at the Camera — Clip Details

Probably Pennsylvania, in the United States, circa 1972 home movie footage of a baby at bath time indoors. The wet-haired, bare-shouldered baby is seen in profile looking down, then turns wide-eyed toward the camera at about the midpoint before looking down again. It is a single handheld close-up on Super 8 film, dim and heavily green-tinted, with coarse grain, a plain wall and two dark upright shapes behind.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upInteriorNight
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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000569

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1972 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: Pennsylvania, 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: Suits requests for unstaged American infant and bath-time footage from around the early 1970s, for documentary memory sequences or pieces on home life.
Period detail: The Super 8 stock and the green shift of daylight film under indoor light point to the late 1960s or 1970s; the frame holds no dated object.
Home-movie behavior: A family member films a baby at bath time from close range and catches the instant the baby notices the camera and stares back.
What appears in frame: A baby's head and bare shoulders, wet slicked-back hair, a plain wall glowing green, two dark upright shapes, and a pale object at the upper right edge.
Film character: Coarse grain, underexposure and a saturated green cast give the shot a murky, tactile small-gauge texture, with gentle handheld drift.
Edit role: Works as a brief memory beat or insert, with the turn to camera at about 2.5 seconds as a natural cut point.
Historical context: It shows an ordinary domestic routine recorded on a consumer Super 8 camera without added lighting, as many families filmed indoors in this period.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from likeness: an unidentified minor's face is clearly visible, unclothed from the chest up in a private home, so sensitive or commercial use calls for caution.
Research search match: Baby in bath home movie, 1970s infant close-up, Super 8 baby looking at camera, green-tinted indoor home movie, vintage bath time footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's clip of a boy in a red baseball cap laughing at the camera, then with other circa 1972 American family footage or infant close-ups.

Still Frames From This Clip

The clip opens on the baby in profile at bath time, hair wet and head bowed, circa 1972.

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Grainy Super 8 close-up of a baby looking down at bath time, eyes lowered and hair slicked back, likely the United States circa 1972. — The baby keeps looking down as the handheld camera holds close on head and shoulder.
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Wet-haired baby turning to face the camera in a green-tinted Super 8 home movie frame, probably Pennsylvania, circa 1972. — The baby turns from the water and looks toward the camera, the expressive moment of the shot.
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Three-quarter view of a baby at bath time glancing down after looking at the camera, heavily green-cast Super 8 film, circa 1972 United States. — After the look to camera, the baby's gaze drops again near the end of the clip.
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