United States-1976: Man Tossing a Ball and Swinging a Pink Plastic Bat in a Meadow

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Year1976
Decade1970s
LocationUnited States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1976 · United States

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What is in this clip

backyard baseball
family leisure
rural life
spring outdoors
1970s recreation
fatherhood
play

Shot type: wide
Camera: static
Setting: outdoor · rural valley meadow below a long wooded ridge, with fields and scattered houses in the distance
Time and weather: day · spring · hazy, clear
Lighting: natural daylight, soft and hazy
People: 1 · One adult man in a navy sweater with a light collar, flared blue jeans and brown shoes, seen mostly from behind and then in profile while batting.
Objects: pink plastic bat · white ball · leafless tree · small dark object in the grass
Colors: green · violet blue · navy · pink
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The man walks away from the camera carrying a pink plastic bat.
He reaches a white ball lying in the grass.
He bends down and picks up the ball.
He tosses the ball into the air and raises the bat.
He swings hard across his body and follows through.

Man Tossing a Ball and Swinging a Pink Plastic Bat in a... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1976, home movie footage shows a man in a navy sweater and flared jeans practising batting alone in a grassy valley meadow. He walks toward a ball lying in the grass with a pink plastic bat in one hand, bends to pick it up, tosses it into the air and swings hard. A long wooded ridge, a leafless tree and a row of pale houses fill the background. The Super 8 camera holds a steady wide frame throughout.

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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000644

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.

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

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: 1976 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 1970s American home-movie footage of casual outdoor play, useful in family-life, sports-culture and nostalgia documentaries.
Period detail: Flared jeans, a plain navy sweater and the purple-shifted colour reversal stock may show the mid-1970s, circa 1976.
Home-movie behavior: An unposed moment of a man practising swings on his own with a toy bat, filmed by someone in the family rather than staged for the camera.
What appears in frame: A man in a navy sweater and flared jeans, a pink plastic bat, a white ball in the grass, a leafless tree at left, pale houses in the valley and a long wooded ridge.
Film character: Soft focus, fine grain, dust specks and a strong blue-violet cast give the shot the recognisable texture of projected 1970s Super 8 reversal film.
Edit role: Works as a short memory-beat insert or cutaway within a family or sports sequence, with the steady wide frame also usable as a gentle transition.
Historical context: Shows informal recreation on open land in a rural valley, filmed on Super 8, the dominant home-movie format between 1965 and the spread of camcorders in the 1980s.
Research note: The man is unidentified and his face is briefly visible, so likeness permission may be needed for some uses; background houses are private property, and copyright in the film is a separate question from likeness.
Research search match: Matches searches such as 1970s Super 8 backyard baseball, man swinging plastic bat home movie, and rural America family leisure circa 1976.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's boy batting with wooden bat and smiling toddler with red plastic bat, then the C0033 Easter reel from the same session, then other 1970s backyard sports clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Man carrying a pink plastic bat toward a ball in a valley meadow below a wooded ridge, United States, circa 1976 Super 8 — A man walks toward a ball in the grass with a pink plastic bat, a wooded ridge on the horizon, circa 1976.
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Man pausing beside a ball with a toy bat in a rural meadow, pale houses and a long ridge behind, circa 1976 home movie — Standing over the ball, the man holds the plastic bat at his side in front of a row of distant houses.
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Man stooping to pick up a ball with a pink plastic bat in hand, rural valley in the United States, circa 1976 Super 8 — The man bends to pick up the ball from the grass, the bat still in his left hand.
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Man mid-swing with a pink plastic bat in a valley meadow, wooded ridge and houses behind, United States, circa 1976 — Mid-swing: the man brings the pink plastic bat around after tossing the ball, circa 1976 Super 8 home movie.
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