United States-1977: Toddler Pours a Green Watering Can Into a Blue Wading Pool and Laughs

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Year1977
Decade1970s
LocationUnited States
Duration10s
Price$149 USD
Collection1977 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

childhood
summer water play
backyard leisure
family home movies
1970s domestic life
suburban American life

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · tilt
Setting: outdoor · private backyard lawn with a plastic wading pool
Time and weather: daytime · summer · dry, fair daylight
Lighting: soft natural daylight
People: 1 · One toddler, probably a boy, in a white tank top with red trim and a number 22 on the front, with tan shorts and light brown hair.
Objects: green plastic watering can · blue corrugated wading pool · light blue pool slide · stacked red bricks · angled metal frame legs · small yellow toys · white object on the grass
Colors: blue-violet · olive green · white · red · magenta
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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From a high angle, the toddler tips a green watering can and water splashes into the blue wading pool.
A thin stream of water runs from the spout into the pool beside the slide.
He lifts the can to his chest, turns sideways and pours over the rim again.
The toddler looks up at the camera and laughs, holding the can.
He looks down at the watering can as the shot ends.

Toddler Pours a Green Watering Can Into a Blue Wading... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1977, home movie footage shows a toddler in a white number 22 tank top with red trim and tan shorts standing in a blue corrugated wading pool on a backyard lawn. He tips a green plastic watering can so a thin stream of water splashes into the pool, then lifts the can to his chest and pours again. He turns toward the camera and laughs. The single handheld Super 8 shot moves from a high angle to a closer, level framing, with faded magenta-blue colour.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upHandheld
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: 10s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000677

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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: 1977 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: Answers requests for 1970s American childhood and summer-at-home imagery, giving documentary and nostalgia productions a candid backyard water-play moment on Super 8.
Period detail: The numbered jersey-style tank top, the corrugated plastic wading pool with a slide and the faded Super 8 colour may show a mid-to-late 1970s backyard.
Home-movie behavior: An unstaged toddler absorbed in pouring water who looks up and laughs at the parent filming him, the kind of private family moment rarely captured professionally.
What appears in frame: A toddler in a number 22 tank top, a green watering can with a stream of water, a blue wading pool and slide, a lawn, stacked red bricks and small yellow toys.
Film character: Visible grain, soft focus and a magenta-violet colour shift from aged Super 8 stock give the handheld shot a warm, period home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as a memory beat or emotional cutaway, with the laugh toward camera giving a natural close for a childhood or summer sequence.
Historical context: Super 8 was the leading home-movie format from the late 1960s into the early 1980s, and families often used it to record everyday backyard play like this.
Research note: The film's copyright is separate from the likeness of the identifiable minor shown, and the private backyard is personal property, so productions should assess likeness and property use on their own terms.
Research search match: Researchers would find it under searches like 1970s kiddie pool home movie, Super 8 toddler with watering can, or vintage backyard summer footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's boy climbing the swing set, grinning boy at the wading pool and boy waving in a red toy fireman's helmet, then with other 1970s US backyard reels, then with summer water-play clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

High-angle view of a toddler pouring a green watering can into a blue backyard wading pool, United States, circa 1977 — A toddler tips a green watering can into the wading pool, filmed from above on Super 8, circa 1977.
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Toddler hugging a green watering can at a blue wading pool in a 1970s American backyard with stacked bricks on the lawn — The toddler lifts the watering can to his chest and turns away from the camera.
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Laughing toddler with a watering can looks at the camera beside a blue wading pool, Super 8 home movie, circa 1977, USA — The toddler looks up at the camera and laughs, still holding the watering can.
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Toddler gazing down at his green watering can by a blue wading pool on a grassy backyard lawn, United States, circa 1977 — At the end of the shot the toddler looks down at the watering can in his hands.
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