United States-1942: Man Runs Along Porch With Football, Youth Tumbles Over Railing

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Year1942
Decade1940s
LocationUnited States
Duration3s
Price$149 USD
Collection1942 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

horseplay
friendship
backyard football
youth
home life
physical comedy
early colour film

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan · eye level, slightly below porch height
Setting: outdoor · Porch of a pale clapboard house with a turned post and white-baluster railing, filmed from the yard
Time and weather: daytime, low sun · winter · clear and sunny
Lighting: Low, warm direct sunlight on the siding with a deep black doorway
People: 2 · A heavyset adult man in a white shirt, dark tie and dark trousers, and a young man with wavy hair in a pink jersey with blue raglan sleeves and dark trousers.
Objects: football · porch railing · white balusters · turned porch post · clapboard siding · doorway
Colors: cream · brown · black · pink · blue
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A man in a white shirt and tie steps out of a dark doorway holding a football.
He runs right along the porch behind the railing as the camera pans with him.
A young man in a pink-and-blue jersey follows and grips the top rail.
He pitches forward and goes headfirst over the railing with his legs in the air.

Man Runs Along Porch With Football, Youth Tumbles Over... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1942 home movie footage shows a man in a white shirt and dark tie running out of a dark doorway onto the porch of a pale clapboard house, clutching a football to his chest. The camera pans right with him along the white railing until he leaves frame. A young man in a pink-and-blue raglan jersey then follows, plants his hands on the rail and tumbles headfirst over it toward the yard. One handheld colour shot on 8mm film, in low, warm sunlight.

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: 3s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000607

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Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1942 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: Suits requests for early-1940s American colour home movie footage of young adults at play, for home-front documentaries and nostalgia montages.
Period detail: A white shirt worn with a dark tie for casual play, a raglan-sleeve jersey, short wavy men's haircuts and early Kodachrome colour point to the early 1940s.
Home-movie behavior: Two men show off for a friend's camera, one running off with the ball and the other throwing himself over the railing for a laugh.
What appears in frame: A man in a white shirt and tie carrying a football, a young man in a pink-and-blue jersey, a white-baluster railing, a turned porch post, cream clapboard siding and a dark doorway.
Film character: Grainy 8mm colour with warm cream highlights, crushed black shadows, soft focus and motion blur from a quick handheld pan.
Edit role: Works as a fast insert or comic memory beat, with the tumble giving a clean action cut point.
Historical context: The clip shows informal leisure among young adults at an American house around 1942, recorded on colour 8mm film that had been on sale since 1936.
Research note: The two men are unidentified private individuals with recognisable faces and the house is private property, so likeness and property permissions are separate from film copyright.
Research search match: 1940s 8mm Kodachrome home movie, man running with football on porch, young man tumbling over porch railing, wartime-era horseplay.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with 'Women playing football' and 'Man snapping a football in front of parked 1940s cars' from this reel, then with other early-1940s colour yard and horseplay footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1942 8mm colour frame, United States: a man in shirt and tie comes out of a doorway onto a clapboard house porch clutching a football. — A man steps out onto the porch with a football held against his chest, circa 1942.
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Early-1940s American home movie frame of a grinning man running along a porch behind a white railing with a football under his arm. — He runs to the right behind the porch railing, ball tucked in, as the camera pans with him.
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Circa 1942 Kodachrome frame, United States: a young man in a pink-and-blue raglan jersey grips a porch rail, about to go over it. — A young man in a pink-and-blue jersey plants his hands on the top rail.
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Early-1940s 8mm colour frame of a young man going headfirst over the white railing of an American clapboard house porch, legs blurred above. — He goes headfirst over the railing, legs in the air, in a blur of motion.
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