United States-1972: Baby in a Yellow Plastic Tub Turns and Stares Into the Camera

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationUnited States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

infancy
bath time
family life
childhood memory
home moviemaking
curiosity
domestic routine

Shot type: close-up
Camera: handheld
Setting: indoor · Home interior with a green wall, a baby seated in a yellow plastic tub
Time and weather: unknown (interior, artificial light)
Lighting: Artificial indoor light from the camera side, dim background with darkened frame edges
People: 1 · One baby with wet, slicked-back hair, unclothed in the bath and seen from the shoulders up, first in profile and then facing the camera with wide eyes.
Objects: yellow plastic baby tub · green wall · dark rectangular shapes on wall · pale object in upper right background
Colors: green · yellow · pink · black
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Baby with wet hair sits in profile in a yellow tub, looking down.
The baby reaches forward and pats the water at the edge of the tub.
The head turns away from the camera, showing the back of the head and one ear.
The baby turns round and stares wide-eyed straight into the lens.

Baby in a Yellow Plastic Tub Turns and Stares Into the... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1972 home movie footage shows a baby with wet hair sitting in a yellow plastic tub indoors, filmed close from the side against a green wall. The child looks down and pats the water with one hand, turns away so only the back of the head is seen, then turns round and stares wide-eyed, mouth slightly open, straight into the lens. It is a single handheld Super 8 close-up, grainy and green-tinged under indoor light.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upInterior
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: 800000575

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$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: 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 circa 1970s American home-movie footage of infancy and bath time, for documentary, biographical and nostalgia-led productions.
Period detail: The moulded yellow plastic tub and the grainy, green-tinged Super 8 colour stock under indoor light may show an early-1970s household, though no dated object appears.
Home-movie behavior: The baby is absorbed in patting the water and only notices the camera at the end, giving an unposed, startled look straight into the lens.
What appears in frame: A baby with wet hair seen from the shoulders up, a small hand patting water, the rim of a yellow plastic tub, a green wall, two dark rectangular shapes and a pale object at upper right.
Film character: Heavy Super 8 grain, a green cast, soft close focus, darkened edges and a few vertical scratches give the shot a strongly physical small-gauge texture.
Edit role: Works as a memory beat or short emotional insert, with the turn to camera at about 4.5 seconds giving a natural cut point.
Historical context: Cartridge-loading Super 8, introduced by Kodak in 1965, put indoor family filming within reach of households, and this close bath scene is typical of that everyday use.
Research note: The film scan's copyright is separate from likeness and property: an identifiable, unclothed infant is shown in a private home, the person is unidentified, and no release is held.
Research search match: Super 8 baby bath home movie, 1970s baby looks at camera, vintage infant in yellow tub, grainy family film close-up of a baby.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the other bath clips from this reel, then with circa 1972 American family interiors, then with other babies and early-childhood home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

A baby with wet hair looks down at the bath water, filmed close from the side on Super 8, circa 1972.

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Circa 1972 Super 8 home movie frame, likely United States: a baby reaches a hand forward to pat the water in a yellow tub. — The baby reaches forward to pat the water at the edge of the yellow plastic tub.
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Circa 1972 Super 8 home movie frame, likely United States: a baby seen from behind, hand at the rim of a yellow bath tub. — Turned away from the lens, the baby keeps a hand at the rim of the tub.
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Circa 1972 Super 8 home movie frame, likely United States: a baby in a yellow tub stares wide-eyed straight into the camera. — The baby turns and stares wide-eyed straight into the lens, the clip's closing moment.
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