United States-1975: Teenagers Shooting at a Backyard Basketball Hoop Beside a Tree

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationUnited States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1975 · United States

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What is in this clip

youth sports
summer leisure
backyard recreation
adolescence
friendship
1970s home life
amateur filmmaking

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · tilt
Setting: outdoor · Backyard basketball hoop on a pole beside a large leafy tree, with a hazy open field and distant tree line
Time and weather: day · summer · hazy
Lighting: flat diffuse daylight under a pale hazy sky
People: 5 · A group of teenage boys seen mostly from behind, several shirtless and one in a white T-shirt, with dark longish hair; a long-haired onlooker is partly visible at the frame edge.
Objects: basketball · backboard · basketball rim · hoop pole · tree
Colors: magenta · violet · dark purple · pale lavender
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Teenagers, one shirtless, gather near the hoop pole, seen from behind.
The camera tilts up to the backboard as the players spread out.
A ball rises toward the rim.
A player lifts the ball overhead with both hands and shoots.
The ball falls back past the pole as the group watches.

Teenagers Shooting at a Backyard Basketball Hoop Beside... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1975, home movie footage shows a group of teenagers, several shirtless, gathered under a backyard basketball hoop on a single pole beside a dark leafy tree, with a hazy open field beyond. A ball rises toward the rim, then a player near the pole lifts it overhead with both hands and shoots while the others watch. The handheld camera films from behind the players and tilts up toward the backboard. The faded Super 8 colour carries a heavy magenta cast and soft focus.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
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: 800000730

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: 1975 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: Helps fill a request for circa 1970s American youth recreation, giving a documentary or education producer an authentic home-shot backyard basketball moment.
Period detail: The boys' longish shaggy hair, casual shirtless play, the plain backboard on a single pole and the magenta-faded colour stock may point to the mid-1970s.
Home-movie behavior: The camera operator stands among the spectators behind the players, catching an unstaged pickup game rather than posed action.
What appears in frame: A plain backboard and rim on a dark pole, a large leafy tree at left, several teenagers seen from behind, a ball in the air, and a hazy field with a distant tree line.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, a strong magenta dye cast, a vertical scratch and dust specks give the shot the texture of a well-used Super 8 home movie.
Edit role: Works as a short memory-beat insert or nostalgic cutaway in a sequence about summer, adolescence or neighbourhood sports.
Historical context: Backyard hoops were a common feature of American family homes, and this shot shows teenagers using one for an informal game in warm weather.
Research note: The film is an anonymous home movie with no known authors, so copyright and the likeness rights of the unidentified, likely minor players are separate questions, and the backyard is private property; faces are not clearly shown.
Research search match: Matches searches such as 1970s backyard basketball home movie, Super 8 teenagers shooting hoops, and vintage summer pickup game footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's child in snow walking up to the camera for a winter-to-summer family arc, then with other circa 1975 US backyard clips, then with vintage youth sports footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Teenagers, one shirtless, gather by a backyard basketball pole in the United States, circa 1975, on magenta-faded Super 8 film — Players gather by the hoop pole at the start of the shot, with a long-haired onlooker soft at right.
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Backyard backboard and rim above teenage players in a white T-shirt and bare-chested, United States, circa 1975 home movie — The camera tilts up to the backboard as the players spread out beneath it.
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Teenager shooting a basketball with both hands at a backyard hoop, United States, circa 1975, purple-tinted Super 8 frame — A player raises the ball overhead and shoots toward the rim.
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Teenage players watch the shot fall under a backyard hoop, United States, circa 1975, soft-focus magenta home movie still — The group watches after the shot as the ball comes back down by the pole.
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