United States-1958: Three Children Play-Wrestling and Tumbling in Backyard Snow

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 · United States

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What is in this clip

childhood
winter play
siblings and friends
snow
roughhousing
mid-century family life
laughter

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld
Setting: outdoor · Snow-covered residential backyard enclosed by a wire fence on posts, with the dark corner of a building in the background
Time and weather: afternoon · winter · sunny and cold with snow on the ground
Lighting: Low natural winter sunlight with long shadows and a strong blue cast in the shade
People: 3 · Three children: a girl in a red snowsuit with a patterned headscarf, a taller child in a dark navy hooded snowsuit with red mittens, and a smaller child in a dark hooded snowsuit
Objects: snowsuits · headscarf · red mittens · wire fence · fence posts · building corner
Colors: deep blue · navy · red · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Two children in dark hooded snowsuits grin over a girl in red lying in the snow.
The taller child bends down and grapples with the girl in red.
The girl in red sits up, laughing straight into the camera.
She lurches forward as the smaller child crawls through the snow beside her.

Three Children Play-Wrestling and Tumbling in Backyard Snow — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1958, home movie footage shows three children at play in a snowy fenced backyard. Two children in dark hooded snowsuits grin at the camera while a girl in a red snowsuit lies in the snow at their feet. They push and grapple, and the girl in red sits up laughing into the lens before lurching forward again. The single handheld medium shot is filmed at child height on colour 8mm with a strong blue cast.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 800000712

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

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: 1958 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 1958 American children playing in snow, giving documentaries and nostalgia pieces a short, lively winter childhood beat.
Period detail: One-piece hooded snowsuits, a patterned headscarf, red mittens and a plain wire backyard fence may show typical 1950s American winter play wear and suburban yard layout.
Home-movie behavior: The children roughhouse freely and the girl in red laughs straight up at the family camera, an unstaged moment of play filmed by someone close to them.
What appears in frame: A girl in a red snowsuit and headscarf, two children in dark hooded snowsuits, red mittens, trampled snow with long shadows, a wire fence on posts and a dark building corner.
Film character: Colour 8mm with a deep blue cast in the shadows, visible grain, soft focus on fast movement and a handheld frame that rides with the action.
Edit role: Works as a quick memory-beat insert or a cutaway within a winter montage, bridging skating and skiing shots with a burst of laughter.
Historical context: Colour 8mm film had been sold since 1936, and footage like this shows how families used it to record everyday backyard play rather than only formal occasions.
Research note: Physical film rights and copyright are separate from likeness: the minors' faces are identifiable and the backyard is private property, so likeness and property releases are not implied.
Research search match: Matches searches such as 1950s kids playing in snow, vintage 8mm winter home movie, girl in red snowsuit, and children wrestling in backyard snow.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's girl ice skating in backyard and small boy learning to ski clips, then other circa 1958 US winter home movies, then children's snow play footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1958 United States backyard: two children in dark snowsuits stand over a girl in red lying in the snow, colour 8mm. — Two children in hooded snowsuits stand over a girl in red lying in the snow, circa 1958.
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Children play-wrestle in a snowy backyard in the United States, circa 1958, the girl in a red snowsuit pinned at the bottom. — The three children grapple in the snow, the girl in red at the bottom of the pile.
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Girl in red snowsuit and headscarf laughs into the camera in a snowy US backyard, circa 1958, on colour 8mm home movie film. — The girl in red sits up laughing at the camera between her two playmates, circa 1958.
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Winter roughhousing in a United States backyard, circa 1958: girl in red tumbles forward as two children in dark snowsuits follow. — The girl in red tumbles forward as the smaller child scrambles through the snow beside her.
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