Minnesota-1937: Family in Print Dresses Climbing Out of a Black Sedan by a Lake

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Year1937
Decade1930s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1937 · Minnesota, United States

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What is in this clip

family outing
summer leisure
1930s motoring
women's fashion
childhood
arrival
lakeside recreation

Shot type: medium
Camera: static
Setting: outdoor · Grassy lakeshore with low shrubs and a broad stretch of open water behind a parked car
Time and weather: day · summer · clear
Lighting: Bright natural daylight with strong highlights on chrome trim
People: 5 · Several women in short-sleeved print and plain dresses, a small girl in a light dress with a large hair bow, another small child partly visible low in the frame, and a figure in a light shirt on the back seat
Vehicles: black 1930s four-door sedan
Objects: open car doors · spoked chrome hubcap · running board · car seat upholstery · belted floral dress · hair bow
Colors: black · pale green · magenta · grey
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A woman in a floral dress steps out as a small girl with a hair bow is helped from the next door.
The girl clambers down from the seat while the woman in the print dress moves out of frame.
A dark-haired woman in a plainer dress climbs out of the front door.
She walks toward the camera smiling.
A figure in a light shirt shifts across the back seat to get out.

Family in Print Dresses Climbing Out of a Black Sedan by... — Clip Details

Likely Minnesota, circa 1937 home movie footage of a family climbing out of a black four-door sedan parked beside a broad lake. A woman in a floral print dress steps out while a small girl with a large hair bow is helped through the open door beside her. A dark-haired woman in a plainer dress then emerges and walks smiling toward the camera as a figure in a light shirt shifts across the back seat. The single steady shot is filmed side-on at eye level on faded early colour stock.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000795

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: 1937 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 authentic late-1930s colour footage of an American family arriving by car for a summer outing, for documentary, museum or period-drama reference use.
Period detail: The rounded black sedan with spoked chrome hubcaps, short-sleeved print dresses, a child's large hair bow and faded early colour stock all point to the mid-to-late 1930s.
Home-movie behavior: Unposed and busy: adults help a small girl down from the seat, one woman glances back at the car, and another breaks into a smile as she notices the camera.
What appears in frame: A black sedan with its doors open, a woman in a floral dress, a small girl with a hair bow, a smiling dark-haired woman, a figure on the back seat, and open lake water behind.
Film character: Early colour stock faded to a green and magenta palette, with soft focus, fine grain and bright chrome highlights that give the shot a clear 1930s archival texture.
Edit role: Works as an arrival or establishing beat for a family trip sequence, or as a short memory-beat insert in a 1930s montage.
Historical context: Shows a family travelling by private car to a lakeshore in summer, an everyday scene of middle-class leisure in the years before the Second World War.
Research note: The film is from the archive, but recognisable adults and minors appear and none are identified, so likeness and publicity use should be assessed separately from copyright in the footage.
Research search match: 1930s family getting out of car, women print dresses lake outing, early colour home movie circa 1937, vintage sedan family summer trip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's 1937 Minneapolis Notre Dame game title card and stadium crowd, then with other circa 1937 Minnesota lake footage, then with 1930s family motoring clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1937 home movie, likely Minnesota: a woman in a floral print dress and a girl with a hair bow leave a black sedan by a lake — A woman in a floral dress steps from the sedan while a small girl is helped out beside her, circa 1937.
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Circa 1937 lakeside outing, likely Minnesota: belted print dress on a woman leaving a 1930s sedan while a girl climbs down — A woman in a belted print dress walks clear of the car as the girl with the hair bow climbs down, circa 1937.
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Early colour film, circa 1937, likely Minnesota: a dark-haired woman steps down from a black 1930s sedan parked beside a lake — A dark-haired woman climbs out of the sedan's front door with a child near the running board, circa 1937.
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Circa 1937 family outing, likely Minnesota: a smiling woman walks from a black sedan by a lake as another passenger gets out — A smiling woman walks toward the camera as another passenger moves across the back seat, circa 1937.
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