United States-1973: Small Boy in Blue Jacket Smiling Beside a Pile of Autumn Leaves

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit

Suits requests for early 1970s American childhood and autumn family life, where an editor needs a short, authentic film portrait of a young child outdoors.

Period detail

The wide-collared zip jacket with knit cuffs, plaid shirt and bowl haircut may show early 1970s children's fashion, and the Super 8 stock places it no earlier than 1965.

Home-movie behavior

The boy grins at whoever holds the camera and then loses interest and looks down, the kind of unposed moment a parent catches while filming in the yard.

What appears in frame

A fair-haired small boy, a blue zip jacket with dark cuffs, a plaid collar, a tall heap of brown fallen leaves, a few yellow leaves, a shaded lawn and a strip of sunlit grass.

Film character

Projected Super 8 with soft focus, visible grain and a cool blue-violet cast in the shade, set against a bright green band of sunlit grass at the top of the frame.

Edit role

Works as a two-second memory beat or portrait insert within an autumn or childhood montage, or as a cutaway between wider leaf-play shots.

Historical context

It shows an ordinary domestic scene of a child beside raked autumn leaves on a lawn, with no event, landmark or identifiable location in view.

Research note

A minor's face is clearly visible and the person is unidentified, so likeness permission is separate from the film copyright and should be weighed for commercial use.

Research search match

Matches searches such as 1970s Super 8 boy in autumn leaves, vintage home movie toddler smiling, and child beside leaf pile on a lawn.

Archive pairing path

Pair first with the same reel's clips of the boy tossing leaves, two children playing in fallen leaves and the child lying in the pile, then with other early 1970s autumn backyard footage.