Minnesota-1938: Family with Two Little Girls in Hair Bows Steps Out of a Front Door

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration8s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 · Minnesota, United States

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What is in this clip

family life
leaving home
childhood
1930s fashion
early colour home movies
domestic life
family outing

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan · eye level
Setting: outdoor · Front doorway and entrance of a white-painted house with pillars and an open door
Time and weather: day · summer · dry, bright daylight
Lighting: Soft natural daylight on the white wall with a dark interior behind the door
People: 5 · A man in a white shirt, tie and dark trousers; two small girls in light dresses with large hair bows; a woman in a dark fitted jacket with a brooch; a woman in a floral print dress with curled hair.
Objects: open front door · white house wall · porch pillars · door handle · hair bows · necktie · brooch
Colors: magenta · pale white · dark plum · muted pink
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A man in a white shirt and tie stands in the open doorway with two small girls in hair bows.
He steps out holding one girl's hand as both children come over the threshold.
The man bends down to guide the girls forward.
The camera shifts as two women in a dark jacket and a floral dress come out behind him.
The woman on the left waves while the man walks toward the camera.

Family with Two Little Girls in Hair Bows Steps Out of a... — Clip Details

Likely Minnesota, circa 1938 home movie footage of a family stepping out of the open front door of a white house. A man in a white shirt and tie leads two small girls with large hair bows over the threshold, bending to guide them forward. He then walks toward the camera as two women follow him out, one in a dark fitted jacket who waves and one in a floral print dress. The scene is one handheld medium shot on faded, magenta-shifted 8mm colour film.

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: 8s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000791

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: 1938 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: Minnesota, 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 late-1930s American family life in colour, such as a household setting out together, for documentary, museum or education timelines.
Period detail: A fitted jacket with a brooch, a floral print dress, curled short hairstyles, a white shirt and tie, and girls' large hair bows may show late-1930s dress on early colour 8mm stock.
Home-movie behavior: The family comes out unposed, with a father figure steering two small girls over the step and a woman waving at whoever is holding the camera.
What appears in frame: An open front door, a white house wall with pillars, a man in a white shirt and tie, two girls with hair bows, a waving woman in a dark jacket and a woman in a floral dress.
Film character: Faded early colour 8mm with a strong magenta cast, pale whites, soft focus, fine grain and a handheld reframe give the shot a clear prewar home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as an opening memory beat or departure insert before travel shots, or as a cutaway showing family members in a period piece.
Historical context: Colour 8mm home movies only became possible after Kodak released Kodachrome in 8mm in 1936, so colour family scenes from this period are comparatively scarce.
Research note: The scanned film's copyright is separate from the likeness of the identifiable adults and minors and from the private house shown, and those uses may need separate consideration.
Research search match: 1930s family leaving house, girls with hair bows home movie, early Kodachrome 8mm family, late 1930s print dress footage, vintage family doorway scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge view and the lakeshore sedan and lake-gazing clips, then other Minnesota late-1930s reels, then 1930s family departures.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1938 home movie, likely Minnesota: a man in shirt and tie and two girls in hair bows at the door of a white house. — A man and two small girls in hair bows appear at the open front door, circa 1938, likely Minnesota.
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Late-1930s 8mm colour film, likely Minnesota: a man guides two little girls in hair bows out of a white house. — The man steps out holding a child's hand as both girls cross the threshold.
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Circa 1938 home movie, likely Minnesota: two women in a fitted jacket and a floral print dress follow a man out of a house. — Two women in period dress follow the man out of the doorway, circa 1938.
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Faded 8mm colour, circa 1938, likely Minnesota: a woman waves as a man walks out ahead of a woman in a print dress. — A woman waves toward the camera as the family leaves the house, circa 1938, likely Minnesota.
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