United States-1977: Boy Tosses Autumn Leaves Over Laughing Baby and Leans in for a Hug

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Year1977
Decade1970s
LocationUnited States
Duration7s
Price$149 USD
Collection1977 · United States

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What is in this clip

childhood
autumn
play
affection
family life
backyard
1970s home life
nostalgia

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · tilt · low, near child eye level, slightly downward
Setting: outdoor · backyard lawn covered in fallen autumn leaves
Time and weather: day · autumn · dry, cool
Lighting: soft natural daylight with a cool bluish cast
People: 2 · A fair-haired boy with a bowl haircut in a pale quilted jacket and blue jeans, and a baby in a blue hooded snowsuit and dark maroon striped knit cap with a pom-pom.
Objects: fallen leaves · quilted jacket · blue snowsuit · knit pom-pom cap · blue jeans
Colors: orange-brown · green · pale blue · maroon · yellow
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The boy crouches behind the seated baby as leaves fly up at the left of frame.
He lifts an armful of leaves and drops them over the baby's knit cap, smiling.
The boy stands, his head rising out of frame, while the baby looks up and grins.
The baby sits alone in the leaves for a moment, waving an arm.
The boy drops back in from the right and leans in to hug the laughing baby.

Boy Tosses Autumn Leaves Over Laughing Baby and Leans in... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1977 home movie footage shows two young children playing in a deep spread of fallen autumn leaves on a backyard lawn. A fair-haired boy in a pale quilted jacket and blue jeans crouches behind a baby in a blue hooded snowsuit and dark knit pom-pom cap and tosses handfuls of leaves over him. The boy stands, steps around, then leans in to hug the smiling baby. Filmed handheld in one continuous medium shot on Super 8, with soft focus and warm, saturated colour.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 7s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000593

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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: 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 circa 1977 American childhood and autumn family footage, usable in documentaries, education pieces and nostalgic commercial montages.
Period detail: The boy's pale quilted ski-style jacket and bowl haircut, the baby's hooded snowsuit and striped pom-pom knit cap, and the saturated Super 8 colour suggest the mid to late 1970s.
Home-movie behavior: An unposed moment in which a boy gleefully showers leaves on a baby and then drops down to hug him, with both children absorbed in play and barely looking at the camera.
What appears in frame: A fair-haired boy in a quilted jacket and jeans, a baby in a blue hooded snowsuit and maroon knit cap, leaves in mid-air, a thick carpet of brown and yellow leaves, and a strip of green lawn behind.
Film character: Handheld Super 8 with soft focus, visible grain, a cool blue cast on skin and clothing and rich orange and green in the leaves and grass, plus small dust specks from projection.
Edit role: Works as a short memory beat or emotional insert, with the hug at the end giving a natural out point for a childhood or autumn montage.
Historical context: It shows ordinary yard play in cold-weather children's clothing of the kind families commonly recorded on Super 8, a format Kodak introduced in 1965.
Research note: Two unidentified minors with recognisable faces appear on what looks like private residential property; film copyright and likeness permissions are separate matters and neither is guaranteed here.
Research search match: Kids playing in autumn leaves 1970s, boy throwing leaves on baby, Super 8 home movie fall backyard, baby in snowsuit vintage footage, children hugging old film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's baby waving in autumn leaves, boy on a backyard swing and boy playing by a leaf pile, then with other 1970s US autumn or childhood play footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1977 Super 8 frame from the United States: a boy in a quilted jacket crouches behind a baby in a knit cap while fallen leaves tumble past. — The boy crouches behind the baby as tossed leaves drop between them, United States, circa 1977.
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Smiling boy with a leaf above his head beside a baby in a maroon knit cap, seated in autumn leaves, United States home movie circa 1977. — Both children smile as leaves come down over them in the yard.
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Baby in a blue snowsuit and striped knit cap grins upward as a boy in jeans stands beside him in autumn leaves, circa 1977 Super 8, United States. — The boy stands, his head out of frame, while the baby looks up from the leaves.
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Boy leans in to hug a laughing baby in a blue snowsuit and striped pom-pom cap among fallen leaves, United States home movie, circa 1977. — The boy drops back into frame and leans in for a hug as the baby laughs.
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