Cambridge Massachusetts-1939: Little Girl in a Pom-Pom Cap Eating a Snack While Sitting at the Curb

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationCambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1939 · Cambridge · Reel dc114003 contains 4 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

childhood
parade spectators
waiting
1930s everyday life
winter clothing
community celebration
street life

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · static
Setting: outdoor · street curb along a parade route with seated children and standing spectators
Time and weather: day · autumn · overcast, cold
Lighting: soft diffuse daylight
People: 6 · A small blonde girl in a dark knit pom-pom cap and dark coat eating a snack, several other young children in knit caps sitting beside her on the curb, and adult spectators standing behind, seen only from the knees down.
Objects: knit pom-pom cap · dark wool coat · fluffy collar · curb · asphalt street · snack
Colors: black · grey · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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The girl sits on the curb with her hand to her mouth, eating.
Standing spectators shift behind the row of seated children.
She half smiles and glances sideways while chewing.
The child in the left foreground turns his head downward.

Little Girl in a Pom-Pom Cap Eating a Snack While... — Clip Details

Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1939 home movie footage. A small blonde girl in a dark knit pom-pom cap and a dark coat sits on a street curb among other children in knit caps, raising her hand to her mouth as she eats a snack and glances along the roadway. Behind the seated row, standing spectators are visible only from the knees down. The scene plays in one steady handheld black-and-white shot looking down the curb line and across the cracked asphalt.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001173

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$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: 1939 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: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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 candid late-1930s footage of American children watching a public parade, suited to documentaries on childhood, community events or college football traditions.
Period detail: Hand-knit pom-pom caps, heavy dark wool coats and a fluffy collar on the girl may show typical late-1930s children's cold-weather dress.
Home-movie behavior: The girl eats and glances about, unaware of or untroubled by the camera, giving an unstaged moment of a child passing time at the curb.
What appears in frame: A blonde girl with her hand at her mouth, her striped knit cap with pom-pom, other children in dark caps beside her, legs of standing adults behind, and an empty stretch of cracked asphalt.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain and rich blacks in the coats give the shot the textured look of small-gauge black-and-white reversal film, steadily handheld.
Edit role: Works as a human-scale cutaway or reaction insert between parade shots, or as a short memory beat about childhood.
Historical context: The reel places this crowd along a Cambridge parade route where West Point cadets marched before the Harvard–Army game each year from 1928 through 1941.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from likeness: identifiable minors appear, none are named, and likeness or sensitive-use questions should be weighed for any commercial use.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1930s children at a parade, little girl eating on the curb, or black-and-white home movie of Cambridge parade spectators.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's mounted police, marching band and caped cadet clips, then with the same-session Harvard band reel, then with other 1930s parade crowd footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Blonde girl in a pom-pom cap eating a snack on the curb among children, Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1939 — A small girl eats a snack as she sits at the curb with other children, circa 1939.
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Girl chewing a snack at the curb as adult spectators stand behind, Cambridge parade route, circa 1939 — Adult spectators stand behind the row of seated children as the girl keeps eating.
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Half-smiling girl in a knit cap eating on the curb, black-and-white home movie, Cambridge, Massachusetts, circa 1939 — The girl half smiles and glances sideways while she eats.
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Two children on a Cambridge curb, one looking down and a blonde girl eating, circa 1939 home movie — A child in the foreground looks down as the girl beside him eats her snack.
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