United States-1973: Small Boy Throwing Handfuls of Autumn Leaves Beside a Leaf Pile

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit

Suits requests for authentic early-1970s American childhood and autumn family scenes, as a short memory insert in documentary, education or seasonal commercial work.

Period detail

The boy's wide-collared blue zip jacket, plaid shirt and bowl haircut, together with the Super 8 colour rendition, may show the early 1970s.

Home-movie behavior

The child is absorbed in scooping and flinging leaves and pays no attention to the camera, giving an unstaged record of solitary play.

What appears in frame

A small boy in a blue zip jacket with a plaid collar, a raised arm, leaves in mid-air, a heaped leaf pile, a shaded foreground lawn and sunlit green grass behind.

Film character

Handheld Super 8 with soft focus, visible grain, motion blur on the fast gestures, a cool blue-violet cast, dust specks and a hair at the top edge of the gate.

Edit role

Works as a brief memory beat or cutaway in a childhood or autumn sequence, with the repeated throw giving a clear action to cut on.

Historical context

Raked piles of fallen leaves and children playing in them were an ordinary autumn subject for family cameras in the Super 8 era, which began in 1965.

Research note

An unidentified minor's face is visible on what appears to be private residential ground; copyright in the film is separate from likeness and property rights, which are not established here.

Research search match

Boy throwing autumn leaves, 1970s child in leaf pile, Super 8 fall backyard home movie, vintage toddler outdoor play, American childhood circa 1973.

Archive pairing path

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