United States-1977: Boy in Quilted Jacket Riding a Wooden Backyard Swing Over Autumn Leaves

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Year1977
Decade1970s
LocationUnited States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1977 · United States

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What is in this clip

childhood
backyard play
autumn
family home movies
1970s domestic life
nostalgia
outdoor play

Shot type: close-up
Camera: handheld · slightly high angle, looking down on the child
Setting: outdoor · grass backyard lawn scattered with fallen autumn leaves
Time and weather: day · autumn · overcast or shaded, cool
Lighting: soft, flat daylight with a cool blue cast
People: 1 · One young boy with a light brown bowl haircut, wearing a pale quilted jacket with toggle fastenings at the collar over a dark turtleneck and blue trousers.
Objects: wooden swing seat · metal swing chains · fallen leaves · quilted jacket · toggle fastenings
Colors: green · pale blue · brown · orange-yellow
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The boy sits on the wooden swing seat, holding the front bar and looking down.
He swings close to the lens and turns his head to the side with his mouth open.
He swings back, showing the chains, the wooden bar and the leaf-covered grass.
He comes forward again and grins broadly at the camera.

Boy in Quilted Jacket Riding a Wooden Backyard Swing... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1977 home movie footage shows a young boy riding a wooden chain swing in a backyard covered with fallen autumn leaves. He wears a pale quilted jacket with toggle fastenings at the collar over a dark turtleneck, and holds the wooden bar of the seat as he moves toward and away from the lens. The handheld Super 8 camera stays close and looks down on him, with focus drifting as he moves. The shot ends on his broad smile at the camera.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upExterior
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: 800000592

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: 1977 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 mid to late 1970s American childhood footage, giving documentary and commercial editors a short close view of a boy at play on a backyard swing.
Period detail: The pale quilted ski-style jacket with toggle collar fastenings, dark turtleneck and bowl haircut may show mid to late 1970s children's fashion, consistent with the saturated Super 8 colour.
Home-movie behavior: The boy is filmed at arm's length by someone he clearly knows, moving from absorbed swinging to an unprompted grin at the camera.
What appears in frame: A young boy fills the frame on a wooden swing seat with a front bar, hung on metal chains, above green grass strewn with brown and yellow leaves.
Film character: Heavy Super 8 grain, a cool blue cast, saturated greens and drifting handheld focus give the shot a strongly tactile small-gauge texture.
Edit role: Works as a memory beat or emotional insert, with the closing smile giving a natural out-point for a cut.
Historical context: It shows an ordinary autumn afternoon of backyard play as recorded by a family on Super 8, a format Kodak introduced in 1965.
Research note: The child is unidentified and his face is clearly visible; copyright in the film is separate from likeness and private-property considerations, which a licensee should weigh for commercial use.
Research search match: Boy on backyard swing 1970s, Super 8 autumn home movie, child smiling at camera vintage film, American childhood fall leaves footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's baby waving in autumn leaves and brothers playing in a leaf pile, then with other circa 1977 US backyard footage or autumn childhood clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Boy with a bowl haircut and pale quilted jacket looks down from a chain swing above fallen autumn leaves, United States, circa 1977 Super 8 home movie. — The boy looks down as the swing carries him close to the camera, with fallen leaves on the lawn behind him.
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Close-up of a boy in a toggle-collar quilted jacket turning his head mid-swing in a leaf-strewn backyard, United States, circa 1977. — Mid-swing, the boy turns to one side with his mouth open; the jacket's toggle collar and dark turtleneck are clearly seen.
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Boy grips the bar of a wooden chain swing as it moves back over autumn leaves in a backyard, United States, circa 1977 home movie. — The widest view in the shot shows the wooden seat with its front bar, both chains and the leaf-covered lawn.
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Boy grins directly at the Super 8 camera from a backyard swing, autumn leaves behind him, United States, circa 1977. — The shot ends on the boy's broad smile at the camera, softened by motion and drifting focus.
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