Minnesota-1938: Family With Small Children Gazing Out Over Open Lake Water

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Year1938
Decade1930s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration2s
Price$149 USD
Collection1938 · Minnesota, United States

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What is in this clip

family outing
summer leisure
sightseeing
looking at the horizon
childhood
1930s everyday life
nature and open water

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · grassy shore above a large lake with an open horizon
Time and weather: day · summer · clear to hazy
Lighting: natural daylight, soft and hazy
People: 5 · A man in a white shirt, a woman in a dark jacket and skirt, a woman in a floral print dress, a small girl with a hair bow and a small child in a white top, all seen from behind
Objects: white shirt · floral print dress · hair bow · dark jacket · grass and shrubs
Colors: magenta · purple · pink · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Women and two small children stand on the grassy shore facing the lake, a child at right raising an arm toward the water.
The camera shifts left and a man in a white shirt enters the frame.
The family holds still with their backs to the camera, looking at the horizon.
The shot ends on the group framed against the open lake.

Family With Small Children Gazing Out Over Open Lake Water — Clip Details

Likely Minnesota, circa 1938 home movie footage of a family standing on a grassy shore with their backs to the camera, looking out over open lake water to a flat horizon. A woman in a dark jacket and a woman in a floral print dress stand near two small children, one a girl with a hair bow, while a child in a white top raises an arm toward the water. The handheld camera shifts left to bring a man in a white shirt into frame. The faded colour 8mm film has a strong magenta cast and soft focus.

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: 2s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000794

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

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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: Helps a production that needs late 1930s American family leisure footage, especially an anonymous backs-to-camera moment of people looking out at a big lake.
Period detail: The floral print dress, the woman's dark tailored jacket and skirt, the man's white shirt and the girl's hair bow may show late 1930s summer dress.
Home-movie behavior: The family is filmed unposed from behind, simply standing and taking in the view while a small child lifts an arm toward the water.
What appears in frame: A man in a white shirt, a woman in a dark jacket, a woman in a floral dress, a small girl with a bow, a child in a white top, grassy bank and a flat lake horizon.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain and a heavy magenta fade typical of early colour 8mm give the shot a warm, dreamlike archival texture.
Edit role: Works as a short memory beat, a reflective cutaway or a closing image after an arrival or travel sequence.
Historical context: Colour 8mm film reached amateur filmmakers in 1936, so a colour family outing like this reflects a fairly new way of recording holidays at the time.
Research note: The film's copyright and the likeness of the people shown, including minors, are separate rights questions; faces are not clearly shown and the people are unidentified.
Research search match: 1930s family at a lake, vintage 8mm summer outing, early colour home movie people looking at water, Minnesota late 1930s footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's family leaving the house doorway, the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge view and the family getting out of the 1930s sedan by the lake, then other late 1930s Minnesota or lakeshore family outings.

Still Frames From This Clip

Women and two small children on a grassy lake shore, likely Minnesota, circa 1938, a child raising an arm toward the water — A child lifts an arm toward the open lake as the family gathers on the grassy shore, circa 1938.
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Man in white shirt and women in 1930s dresses seen from behind on a lake shore, likely Minnesota, circa 1938 — A man in a white shirt joins the women and children looking out over the water.
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Family group facing a flat lake horizon on faded magenta 8mm film, probably Minnesota, circa 1938 — The family stands quietly facing the horizon on early colour 8mm film with a strong magenta fade.
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Small child gestures at open lake water beside parents and women in print dresses, likely Minnesota, circa 1938 — A small child gestures toward the water while the adults take in the view of the big lake.
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