Louisiana-1962: Children Run With Baskets in an Easter Egg Hunt as Adults Watch

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationLouisiana, United States
Duration2s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 · Louisiana, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1962 · Louisiana & New Orleans · Reel 4c065049 contains 5 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

Easter
childhood
holiday tradition
community gathering
spring
family life
play

Shot type: wide
Camera: tilt · handheld
Setting: outdoor · Mown lawn with a white open metal pergola, paved paths and a long clipped hedge, backed by wooded rolling hills
Time and weather: day · spring · overcast
Lighting: soft diffuse overcast daylight
People: 24 · About fifteen children in Easter dresses, short jackets and play clothes run with baskets; about nine adults watch in the foreground, including white-haired women, a dark-haired woman, men in grey and dark suit jackets and a woman in a pink flowered hat
Objects: wicker Easter baskets · blue pail · metal pergola · clipped hedge · paved path · flowered hat
Colors: green · white · light blue · red · pink
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Children with baskets scatter across the lawn beside a white metal pergola.
The group runs on toward the clipped hedge as adults watch from the foreground.
The camera tilts up to reveal wooded hills and an overcast sky.
The hunters spread over the far lawn and a pink flowered hat appears at right.

Children Run With Baskets in an Easter Egg Hunt as... — Clip Details

In the United States, probably Louisiana, circa 1962 home movie footage shows an Easter egg hunt under way on a green lawn. About fifteen boys and girls in party dresses, short jackets and play clothes run away from the camera with wicker baskets and a blue pail, passing a white open metal pergola toward a long clipped hedge. Adult spectators fill the foreground, seen from behind. The single handheld 8mm shot tilts up to show wooded hills under an overcast sky.

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: 2s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001353

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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: 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: Louisiana, 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: Serves requests for early 1960s American Easter traditions, giving documentary and education producers a short, lively shot of a children's egg hunt with an adult audience.
Period detail: Girls' full-skirted party dresses, boys' short jackets, older women's set white hair and a pink flowered hat may show early 1960s spring dress.
Home-movie behavior: The camera operator stands among the spectators, so the hunt is seen over real heads and shoulders, catching the unplanned scramble of children rather than a posed picture.
What appears in frame: Children running with wicker baskets, a girl in a light blue dress, a boy carrying a blue pail, a white metal pergola, a long clipped hedge, wooded hills and the backs of watching adults.
Film character: Saturated green colour reversal rendition, soft projected focus, visible grain, faint vertical lines and a bright overcast sky give it the texture of original small-gauge film.
Edit role: Works as a brief establishing shot or memory beat for an Easter sequence, or as a cutaway between closer shots of the children.
Historical context: Dressing children in their best clothes for an outdoor egg hunt watched by older relatives and neighbours was a familiar part of American Easter observance in this period.
Research note: Footage rights are separate from likeness: minors and adults appear and some faces may be recognisable, and the grounds may be private, so likeness and property permissions should be weighed for each use.
Research search match: 1960s Easter egg hunt 8mm, vintage children with Easter baskets, home movie Easter crowd, Kodachrome-era spring holiday footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's children posing in Easter clothes, children hunting eggs and women spectators in headscarves, then its Louisiana cemetery tombs, then other early 1960s Easter or spring family films.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1962 Easter egg hunt in the United States, children in party dresses and jackets running with baskets past a pergola — Children scatter across the lawn with their baskets at the start of the hunt, circa 1962.
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Early 1960s home movie still of Easter egg hunters running toward a hedge, adults watching from behind, likely Louisiana — The hunters head toward the hedge while adults look on from the edge of the lawn.
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Circa 1962 8mm film of an Easter egg hunt on a lawn below wooded hills, spectators in the foreground, United States — Wooded hills and an overcast sky rise behind the egg hunt as the camera tilts up.
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Easter egg hunt circa 1962, children spread over a lawn by a pergola, a woman in a pink flowered hat at right, likely Louisiana — A woman in a pink flowered hat joins the onlookers as the children spread across the lawn.
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