United States-1976: Smiling Toddler Swinging a Big Red Plastic Bat by White Shed Doors

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Year1976
Decade1970s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1976 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

childhood
backyard play
toy baseball
1970s fashion
family home movies
spring outdoors

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · static
Setting: outdoor · rural backyard lawn beside a pale shed with double doors
Time and weather: day · spring · overcast or soft daylight
Lighting: soft natural daylight with a cool colour cast
People: 1 · One blond toddler boy in a purple-and-yellow puffy vest, red long-sleeved top with a white sleeve stripe, and red trousers.
Objects: red plastic bat · shed double doors · wooden rail · door latch · grass lawn
Colors: purple · yellow · red · pale lavender white · green
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The toddler swings the red plastic bat across in front of the shed doors.
He lowers the bat and grins at the camera.
He lifts the bat and holds it across his chest.
Smiling, he points the bat out toward the camera.
He tips the bat down toward the grass and leans forward.

Smiling Toddler Swinging a Big Red Plastic Bat by White... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1976, home movie footage shows a smiling blond toddler in a purple-and-yellow puffy vest and red trousers swinging a large red plastic bat in front of pale double shed doors. He swings, lowers the toy with a grin, lifts it across his chest toward the camera, then tips it down toward the grass. A wooden rail and patchy spring lawn sit behind him. The handheld Super 8 camera holds a medium framing in soft daylight.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000645

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

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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: This clip answers requests for mid-1970s American childhood play footage, suited to documentaries, nostalgia segments and education pieces on family life of the era.
Period detail: The purple-and-yellow puffy nylon vest, red trousers and oversized plastic toy bat may show mid-1970s children's fashion and toys, and the warm-cool Super 8 colour fits the period.
Home-movie behavior: An unstaged toddler shows off for the family camera, grinning and waving a toy bat that is almost as big as he is.
What appears in frame: A blond toddler, his purple-and-yellow puffy vest, a big red plastic bat, pale paneled shed doors, a wooden rail and patchy spring grass.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain and a lavender cast on the white doors, with saturated reds and purples, give the clip an authentic handheld Super 8 texture.
Edit role: Works as a short memory beat or cutaway insert introducing a child character, or as a light transition within a childhood montage.
Historical context: Backyard filming of children at play was a staple of Super 8 home movies, a format Kodak introduced in 1965 and camcorders displaced in the 1980s.
Research note: The child is an identifiable minor and the yard is private property; the film's copyright, the likeness of the person shown and the property are separate rights issues, and none is guaranteed here.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1970s toddler with toy bat, Super 8 childhood backyard play, vintage kid in puffy vest, or retro home movie of a smiling child.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's boy batting with a wooden bat and the man swinging a plastic bat in the field, then other mid-1970s spring yard footage, then childhood play clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Toddler mid-swing with a big red plastic bat by white shed doors in a US backyard, circa 1976 Super 8 home movie — Mid-swing: the toddler whips the red plastic bat across in front of the shed doors.
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Grinning blond boy raising a red toy bat across his chest on a spring lawn in the United States, circa 1976 — The toddler lifts the bat across his chest and smiles toward the camera.
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Blond toddler in a puffy vest aiming a big red plastic bat at the camera by shed doors, circa 1976 US home movie — Smiling at the camera, he points the oversized red bat out toward the lens.
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Blond boy in red trousers lowering a red toy bat to the lawn beside a pale shed, Super 8 footage circa 1976, USA — He tips the bat down toward the grass and leans forward.
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