United States-1956: Smiling Man Holds a Baby Beside Two Hooded Children on a Swing Set

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

family life
childhood play
parent and infant
backyard leisure
autumn outdoors
1950s domestic life
home movies

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · static
Setting: outdoor · family backyard with a red metal swing set, trees and shrubs, and the edge of a clapboard house
Time and weather: day · autumn · clear, sunny
Lighting: bright daylight with dappled shade through leaves
People: 4 · An adult man in a blue shirt seated with a baby in a white bonnet and red snowsuit on his lap, and two small children in hooded coats, one dark and one purple-blue, on the swings.
Objects: red metal swing set · swing seats · white bonnet · red snowsuit · hooded coats · clapboard house wall
Colors: blue · green · red · purple · yellow
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A smiling man holds a baby in a white bonnet while two hooded children sit on the swings beside him.
The child on the left swings forward and the pair sway on the red metal frame.
The man turns toward the swinging children and laughs.
He faces the camera again as the baby stares at the lens and the children keep swinging.

Smiling Man Holds a Baby Beside Two Hooded Children on a... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1956, home movie footage shows a smiling man in a blue shirt seated in a backyard with a baby on his lap. The baby wears a white bonnet and a red snowsuit and gazes toward the camera. Beside them two small children in hooded coats ride a red metal swing set, swaying back and forth and reaching toward each other. One handheld medium shot on 8mm colour film, with a strong blue cast, soft focus and green and yellow foliage behind.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000657

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$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: 1956 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 circa 1956 American family life, offering a short, warm backyard moment of an adult with a baby and children at play for documentaries or nostalgia pieces.
Period detail: The baby's tied bonnet and snowsuit, the children's hooded coats and the tubular metal swing set may show typical mid-1950s American family dress and backyard equipment.
Home-movie behavior: An unposed family moment in which the man smiles for the camera, then turns to laugh at the swinging children while the baby gazes into the lens.
What appears in frame: A smiling man in a blue shirt, a baby in a white bonnet and red snowsuit on his lap, two hooded children on swings, a red metal swing frame, sunlit foliage and a clapboard wall.
Film character: Strong blue colour shift, soft focus, fine grain and handheld drift give the shot the recognisable texture of aged 8mm colour home-movie film.
Edit role: Works as a memory beat or cutaway insert in a family or childhood sequence, or as a transition into autumn-season material.
Historical context: Backyard swing sets and amateur colour film were both features of many American households in the 1950s, and this clip records that ordinary domestic setting.
Research note: Faces of an adult and three minors are identifiable and the setting is private property; film copyright and personal likeness rights are separate matters that should be considered for each use.
Research search match: 1950s man holding baby home movie; vintage 8mm kids on swing set; circa 1956 American family backyard footage; baby in bonnet archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's summer swing-set clip, then its lake swimming lesson, motorboat ride and wedding clips, then other 1950s American backyard family footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1956 backyard in the United States: a smiling man holds a baby in a red snowsuit next to two hooded children on a swing set — A man smiles at the camera with a baby on his lap as two children in hooded coats sit on the swings, circa 1956.
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Circa 1956 8mm home movie, United States: a man with a baby on his lap turns toward two hooded children on a backyard swing set — The two hooded children reach toward each other on the swings while the man holds the baby, circa 1956.
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Circa 1956 American backyard: a man laughs as a hooded child swings high beside him, a baby in a white bonnet on his lap — A child in a hooded coat swings high as the man turns and laughs, the baby still on his lap, circa 1956.
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Circa 1956 colour 8mm film, United States: a baby in a bonnet stares at the camera from a man's lap beside two children on swings — The baby looks straight into the lens while the man smiles and the children swing, in blue-cast circa 1956 colour.
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