United States-1977: Small Boy Running Across a Leaf-Strewn Lawn Above a Rural Road

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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
outdoor play
rural life
autumn
home and yard
country road
family memory

Shot type: wide
Camera: handheld · pan · slightly high angle looking down the slope
Setting: outdoor · leaf-strewn lawn on a grassy slope above a two-lane rural road, with a white building, a long low shed and wooded hills beyond
Time and weather: daytime · autumn · overcast or hazy
Lighting: soft, flat daylight with a cool blue-green cast
People: 1 · One small boy in a white T-shirt with striped sleeves and blue jeans, seen at a distance.
Vehicles: pale van · dark car
Objects: fallen leaves · fence posts · utility pole · shrub with yellow leaves · bare tree branches · roadside marker posts
Colors: green · blue · white · brown
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Wide view down a leaf-strewn slope as a small boy runs along the edge of the lawn above the road.
A pale van passes on the road behind the boy, just after a dark car.
The boy slows and turns toward the camera as the view drifts right.
He drops to his knees on the grass beside a yellow-leaved shrub.

Small Boy Running Across a Leaf-Strewn Lawn Above a... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1977 home movie footage shows a small boy in a white T-shirt with striped sleeves and blue jeans running across a leaf-strewn lawn at the top of a grassy slope. Below him a two-lane rural road passes a white gabled building and a long low shed, and a dark car and a pale van drive by. The handheld Super 8 camera holds a wide view and drifts right with the boy, who drops to his knees on the grass at the end of the shot.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Wide shotExterior
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: 800000595

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: Fits requests for 1970s rural American childhood and yard scenes where a short, wide Super 8 view of a child at play is needed.
Period detail: The boy's striped-sleeve T-shirt and jeans and the boxy van and car on the road fit the 1970s, and the Super 8 stock places the film after 1965.
Home-movie behavior: The boy runs freely along the lawn, turns back toward the person filming and drops to his knees, an unstaged moment of play filmed from a distance.
What appears in frame: A small boy on a leaf-strewn lawn, a two-lane road below, a passing pale van and dark car, a white gabled building, a long low shed, fence posts and bare overhanging branches.
Film character: Grainy Super 8 with a cool blue-green cast, soft distant focus, gentle handheld drift and a thin vertical scratch near the end of the shot.
Edit role: Works as a brief establishing shot of a rural home setting or as a memory beat closing a sequence of children playing outdoors.
Historical context: The view shows a rural home lawn opening directly onto a lightly travelled two-lane road with outbuildings across it, with a child playing unsupervised near the road.
Research note: The child is a distant, unidentified minor and the buildings are unidentified private property; copyright in the film is separate from any likeness or property permissions a use may need.
Research search match: Matches searches such as 1970s boy running on lawn, Super 8 rural road with van, autumn yard home movie and vintage rural valley wide shot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's boy playing by a leaf pile and boy on a backyard swing, then with other circa 1977 rural United States yards and autumn childhood clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1977 Super 8 frame from the rural United States: a small boy runs along a leaf-strewn lawn above a road, a white gabled building behind him. — A small boy runs along the edge of a leaf-strewn lawn above a rural road, circa 1977.
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Boy in striped-sleeve T-shirt and jeans striding across a lawn above a rural road in the United States, circa 1977, with a long shed across the valley. — The boy strides across the lawn as the camera drifts right; a dark vehicle sits at the right edge of the road.
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Circa 1977 home movie frame of a boy facing the camera on a grassy slope in rural United States, road and outbuildings behind under bare branches. — The boy slows and turns toward the camera, with the road and outbuildings spread out behind him.
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Boy kneeling on leaf-covered grass at the top of a slope in rural United States, circa 1977, Super 8 frame with a faint vertical film scratch. — At the end of the shot the boy drops to his knees on the leaf-covered grass.
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