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New York-1963: Boy Unwraps a Christmas Gift and Holds Up a Fun Chemistry Set

New York-1963: Boy Unwraps a Christmas Gift and Holds Up a Fun Chemistry Set

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  • Year1963
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNew York, United States
  • Duration10s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1963 · New York, United States

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What is in this clip

  • Christmas morning
  • childhood
  • gift giving
  • science toys
  • family home life
  • mid-century domestic interior
  • holiday tradition
Shot type
medium
Camera
handheld · tilt
Setting
indoor · Family living room with a stone fireplace, brass andirons and fire screen, mauve carpet, tapered-leg side tables and Christmas decorations
Time and weather
morning · winter
Lighting
Indoor artificial light, warm with a slight green cast
People
1 · A boy of about ten to twelve with short dark hair, wearing a pale green short-sleeved shirt and dark trousers, kneeling and then holding up a gift.
Objects
Fun Chemistry set box · red and green wrapping paper · stone fireplace · brass andirons · fire screen · red Christmas stockings · Christmas cards · side tables with tapered legs · tinsel-wrapped present · red cushion or stocking pile
Readable signs
FUN CHEMISTRY
Colors
pale green · red · mauve · brass gold · beige stone · black
Master dimensions
3840 × 2160
Audio
Silent
Date confidence
Low
Location confidence
Low

Moments in the footage

  1. 0:00.0The boy kneels by the fireplace tearing red and green paper from a flat present.
  2. 0:01.0He lifts the half-wrapped package and pulls more paper away.
  3. 0:03.0He leans over the opened gift on the carpet, working it free.
  4. 0:07.0He lifts the box from the floor and turns it toward the camera.
  5. 0:08.5He holds the Fun Chemistry set upright, its name readable on the lid.

Boy Unwraps a Christmas Gift and Holds Up a Fun... — Clip Details

Probably New York State, circa 1963 home movie footage of a boy in a pale green short-sleeved shirt kneeling on a mauve carpet before a stone fireplace with brass andirons on Christmas morning. He tears red and green paper from a flat present, leans over it on the floor and lifts out the contents. He then holds a boxed Fun Chemistry set up toward the camera, its name readable on the lid. The scene is one continuous handheld 8mm shot under indoor light, with red stockings and greeting cards at the edges of the frame.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details
Interior
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
10s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
800000863

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: Yes
  • 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
1963 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
New York, 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

  • boy
  • christmas morning
  • unwrapping gift
  • fun chemistry set
  • chemistry set
  • stone fireplace
  • brass andirons
  • christmas stocking
  • wrapping paper
  • christmas cards
  • living room
  • kneeling child
  • toy box
  • short-sleeved shirt
  • New York USA
  • 1963
  • boy opening chemistry set Christmas
  • 1960s Christmas morning home movie
  • vintage 8mm Christmas footage
  • child unwrapping present by fireplace
  • Fun Chemistry set gift 1960s
  • early 1960s toy chemistry set
  • boy holds up Christmas present
  • circa 1963 family Christmas film
  • stone fireplace with Christmas stockings
  • mid-century living room Christmas
  • science toy gift for boy 1960s
  • 8mm home movie child opening gifts
  • New York family Christmas 1960s
  • retro Christmas present unwrapping footage
  • boy kneeling on carpet opening gift
  • vintage science kit Christmas present
  • 1960s American Christmas home movie
  • small gauge film Christmas morning
  • red and green wrapping paper vintage
  • childhood
  • gift giving
  • science toys
  • family home life
  • mid-century domestic interior
  • holiday tradition
  • 1960s home movie
  • stockfilm exclusive

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Fits requests for early-1960s American Christmas morning footage, especially a child receiving a science toy, for documentaries, museum displays and nostalgia pieces.
Period detail
The Fun Chemistry box art, tapered-leg side tables, brass andirons, short-sleeved shirt and short haircut may show an early-1960s household, consistent with circa 1963.
Home-movie behavior
The boy's unhurried tearing of paper and his quick, pleased display of the box to the family camera capture an unstaged gift reveal.
What appears in frame
A kneeling boy in a pale green shirt, red and green wrapping paper, a stone fireplace with brass andirons, red stockings at the mantel, Christmas cards on side tables and the Fun Chemistry set box.
Film character
Fine 8mm grain, warm indoor colour with a green tint and soft motion blur on quick gestures give the shot an authentic family-film texture.
Edit role
Works as a memory beat or cutaway with a built-in payoff, ending on the readable Fun Chemistry box held to the camera.
Historical context
Shows a science-themed toy given as a Christmas present in a family living room in the early 1960s, filmed by the household itself.
Research note
The boy is an identifiable minor in a private home and his identity is unknown; the Fun Chemistry name and box art may carry trademark or copyright interests separate from the film copyright.
Research search match
Researchers might search for 1960s boy chemistry set Christmas, vintage 8mm Christmas morning, child opening presents by fireplace, or early sixties science toy home movie.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with this reel's Boy emptying Christmas stocking, Boy shows basketball goal set and Boy shows Build-It-Set toy, then with its World's Fair footage of 1964–65, then with other early-1960s Christmas morning clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Boy kneeling at a stone fireplace on Christmas morning, circa 1963, probably New York, tearing red and green gift wrap

A boy starts unwrapping a flat Christmas present beside the brass andirons, circa 1963.

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Boy bending over an opened Christmas gift in a 1960s living room, circa 1963, with a red stocking and tinsel parcel nearby

Head down, the boy works the gift loose from its paper on the living room floor.

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Boy reaching down to an unwrapped gift box by a stone fireplace, circa 1963 8mm home movie, likely New York

The boy reaches into the opened wrapping to lift out his present.

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Boy raising his new chemistry set box on Christmas morning, circa 1963, by a stone fireplace with a red stocking overhead

Looking toward the camera, the boy lifts the boxed chemistry set from the floor.

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