United States-1962: Older Man Aiming a Small Still Camera Beside a Clapboard House

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration2s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1958–1964 · United States · Reel f156f43a contains 15 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

amateur photography
home life
family memories
leisure hobbies
mid-century America
camera facing camera
older generation

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · static
Setting: outdoor · Residential yard beside a white clapboard house with a window, dark shutters, shrubs and a red-leaved vine
Time and weather: day · likely autumn · overcast or open shade
Lighting: soft natural daylight with a cool blue-violet cast
People: 1 · An older man with close-cropped grey hair, wearing a tan jacket over an olive-green shirt, a wristwatch and a dark belt, holding a small still camera to his eye
Objects: small black still camera · wristwatch · belt · window with blinds · shutters · clapboard siding · basement window
Colors: lavender blue · tan · olive green · dark green · red
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

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An older man beside a clapboard house holds a small still camera up to his eye.
He adjusts his grip, fingers working near the lens, while aiming at the filmmaker.
The handheld frame drifts slightly as he keeps the shot lined up.
He is still sighting through the viewfinder as the shot ends.

Older Man Aiming a Small Still Camera Beside a Clapboard... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1962, home movie footage shows an older man with close-cropped grey hair standing beside a white clapboard house and raising a small black still camera to his eye. He wears a tan jacket open over an olive-green shirt, with a wristwatch on his left wrist, and he points the lens straight back at the person filming. Behind him are a window with blinds, dark shutters, a shrub and a vine with red leaves. The single handheld 8mm shot holds steady and has a cool blue-violet colour cast and visible grain.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 800000976

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Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1962 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: Suits requests for early-1960s American amateur photography, showing an older man taking a snapshot, for documentaries, family-history series and museum pieces on home media.
Period detail: The man's crew cut, open tan work-style jacket and the compact still camera may show early-1960s dress and consumer photography, set against a painted clapboard house.
Home-movie behavior: An unstaged exchange in which a relative photographs the person filming him, catching the playful back-and-forth of a family recording one day with two cameras.
What appears in frame: An older man with grey hair, a small black still camera held up to his eye, a tan jacket over a green shirt, a wristwatch, white clapboard siding, and a window with blinds framed by a red-leaved vine.
Film character: Handheld 8mm with a strong blue-violet colour shift, soft grain, a fine vertical scratch and gently lifted highlights that read as authentic projected small-gauge colour film.
Edit role: Works as a short memory-beat insert or cutaway, and as a transition into still photographs or snapshot montages because the camera points at the viewer.
Historical context: Still cameras and 8mm movie cameras were both common household hobby equipment in this period, and the clip shows the two in use at the same moment.
Research note: The man is unidentified and his face is partly visible, so likeness permission is a separate question from the film copyright; the private house exterior also calls for caution, and no camera brand is legible.
Research search match: older man taking photo 1960s home movie, vintage 8mm man with still camera, early sixties amateur photographer footage, clapboard house family film
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Older couple laughing on a sofa, Carving the turkey at the dinner table and Children on pedal cars on a lawn, then other circa-1962 American backyard footage, then other clips of people taking photographs.

Still Frames From This Clip

Older man photographing the filmmaker with a small still camera outside a clapboard house, United States, circa 1962 — An older man raises a small still camera toward the 8mm filmmaker outside a white clapboard house, circa 1962.
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Grey-haired man adjusting a compact still camera at his eye beside a window with blinds, early 1960s American home movie — Fingers on the lens, the man lines up his shot while a red-leaved vine climbs the siding behind him.
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Man in an open tan jacket aiming a small camera at the viewer in front of a white house, United States, circa 1962, 8mm film — The frame drifts slightly as the man keeps the still camera trained on the person filming him.
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Older man with a crew cut taking a snapshot outside a clapboard house, blue-tinted 8mm home movie, United States, circa 1962 — Still at the viewfinder, the man finishes his shot in this blue-tinted 8mm home movie frame from about 1962.
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