United States-1942: Man in Cream Jacket Bending to Snap a Football Beside Parked Blue Sedans

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit

Suits requests for colour footage of everyday American leisure and informal sport around the start of the 1940s war years, for documentary, museum or education use.

Period detail

Dark blue sedans with tall chrome grilles and round headlamps, high-waisted patterned trousers and early Kodachrome colour point to circa 1942.

Home-movie behavior

The man glances back at the camera before taking an exaggerated center's stance, the kind of clowning friends do when someone is filming.

What appears in frame

A man in a cream jacket and dark trousers, a football on bare dirt, his long shadow, an iron picket fence with posts, dry grass and two dark blue sedans.

Film character

Saturated early Kodachrome with deep blue car paint, a burnt-out pale jacket in hard sun, visible grain, a faint vertical scratch and gentle handheld tilting.

Edit role

Works as a short insert or memory beat in a sequence on backyard games, or as a cutaway that shows period cars in colour.

Historical context

It shows young adults in the United States playing an informal football game in a yard beside parked family cars, an ordinary leisure scene of the early 1940s.

Research note

The man's face is visible briefly and he is unidentified; likeness and the private yard and vehicles are separate matters from copyright in the film and should be weighed for commercial use.

Research search match

1940s backyard football home movie, 8mm Kodachrome colour circa 1942, man snapping a football, dark blue 1940s sedans parked behind a fence.

Archive pairing path

Pair first with Porch football antics and Women playing football from the same reel, then with other early-1940s American yard scenes or amateur football footage.