United States-1961: Curly-Haired Girl in a Robe Holds Up a Boxed Christmas Toy

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

Christmas morning
gift opening
childhood
family home life
mid-century domestic interior
toys and play

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: indoor · Home living room with green walls, houseplants and window blinds
Time and weather: morning · winter
Lighting: Artificial indoor light, warm and slightly underexposed with a green cast
People: 1 · One young girl with curly dark hair wearing a ruffled pale pink robe
Objects: boxed toy with snowman picture · open gift with yellow item · white hoop planter on stand · houseplant · wooden bird feeder · window blinds · wall switch plate · green upholstered chair · door knob
Colors: green · pale pink · orange · red · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The girl holds a flat package out toward the plant stand.
She looks down into an open gift with a yellow item inside.
She lifts a tall boxed toy with a snowman picture.
She tilts the toy toward the camera and smiles.
She turns to face the camera, holding the gift against her robe.

Curly-Haired Girl in a Robe Holds Up a Boxed Christmas Toy — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1961, home movie footage shows a curly-haired girl in a ruffled pale pink robe on Christmas morning in a green-walled room. She first looks down into an open gift holding a yellow item and metal pieces, then lifts a tall boxed toy with a snowman picture and holds it up beside a hanging planter and a wooden bird feeder. The single handheld 8mm shot is soft, grainy and warm in colour.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001106

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1961 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: Fits requests for authentic early 1960s American Christmas morning footage of a child with a new toy, for documentary, museum or holiday productions.
Period detail: The ruffled robe, hoop planter stand, venetian blinds and brightly printed toy packaging may show an early 1960s home interior.
Home-movie behavior: The girl lifts her present and shows it to the parent filming, an unstaged moment of a child's pride in a gift.
What appears in frame: A curly-haired girl in a pale pink robe, a tall toy box with a snowman picture, an open gift with a yellow item, a white hoop planter, a wooden bird feeder and window blinds on a green wall.
Film character: Soft focus, fine grain, warm skin tones and a green cast from 8mm colour stock give the handheld shot a period home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as a short memory beat or cutaway within a Christmas sequence, or as an insert showing a child's reaction to a gift.
Historical context: The scene reflects the postwar American habit of filming children with their presents on Christmas morning in the family living room.
Research note: The girl is an identifiable minor, the setting is a private home, and the toy box carries printed commercial graphics, so likeness, property and packaging copyright need separate assessment; no clearance is implied.
Research search match: 8mm home movie Christmas morning 1960s, girl opening presents vintage footage, child holding toy box early 1960s.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's Girl showing off a boxed baby doll on Christmas morning, Cat chewing a red gift bow and Girl showing her new bride doll to her mother, then with other early 1960s American Christmas footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Girl in a ruffled pale pink robe opens a Christmas gift in a green room, United States, circa 1961. — A girl looks into an open Christmas present on Christmas morning, circa 1961.
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Curly-haired girl lifts a boxed toy with a snowman illustration on Christmas morning, United States, circa 1961. — The girl raises a boxed toy printed with a snowman picture, United States, circa 1961.
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Girl in a pale pink robe tilts her new boxed Christmas toy toward the camera in a green living room, circa 1961. — Tilting the boxed toy toward the camera in a green-walled room, circa 1961.
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Curly-haired girl faces the camera with her boxed Christmas present, early 1960s 8mm home movie, United States. — The girl turns to the camera with her new toy, a Christmas morning moment from circa 1961.
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