Craigville Beach Massachusetts-1956: Father and Small Son Crouching to Dig Sand at the Water's Edge

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationCraigville Beach, Massachusetts, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 · Craigville Beach, Massachusetts, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

fatherhood
childhood play
summer holiday
beach leisure
family vacation
postwar America
Cape Cod

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · Sandy ocean beach at the surf line with swimmers and a moored float offshore
Time and weather: midday · summer · sunny and clear
Lighting: bright direct sunlight
People: 12 · A man in a white cap with tinted visor, sunglasses and dark trunks crouching beside a small boy in pale blue trunks; distant swimmers in bathing caps and figures standing on a float
Animals: seagull
Objects: yellow toy watering can · sand mound · beach cap · sunglasses · swimming float
Colors: deep blue · violet · sandy brown · yellow · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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The boy stands holding a yellow watering can beside his crouching father.
The boy bends forward and pushes the can into the sand mound.
He hunches low over the sand as a wave breaks behind them.
A gull crosses the sky while the father smiles down at his son.
The boy stands up with the can as the father reaches toward him.

Father and Small Son Crouching to Dig Sand at the... — Clip Details

Craigville Beach, Barnstable, Massachusetts, circa 1956 home movie footage of a father in a white cap with a tinted visor, sunglasses and dark trunks crouching at the surf line beside his small son. The boy, in pale blue trunks, digs at a mound of wet sand with a yellow toy watering can, bends low to scoop, then stands as his father smiles and reaches toward him. Swimmers in bathing caps, a moored float and a passing gull fill the sea behind, filmed in one handheld side-on shot.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001678

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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 reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1956 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: Craigville Beach, 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 authentic 1950s footage of a father playing with his young son on a crowded American beach, for documentaries, nostalgia pieces or New England history programs.
Period detail: The man's high-waisted dark trunks and visored cap, swimmers in rubber bathing caps and the saturated colour reversal stock may show a mid-1950s summer.
Home-movie behavior: An unposed moment of a father crouching patiently at his son's level while the boy concentrates on digging, filmed by a family member nearby.
What appears in frame: A crouching man in cap and sunglasses, a small boy in pale blue trunks, a yellow watering can, a wet sand mound, breaking waves, capped swimmers and a moored float with standing bathers.
Film character: Handheld 8mm colour with a strong blue-violet cast in the sea and sky, visible grain and a brief motion blur early in the shot, giving clear period texture.
Edit role: Works as a memory beat or warm cutaway in a family or summer sequence, and as a bridge between wider beach establishing shots and close child-play inserts.
Historical context: Craigville Beach is a public beach on Nantucket Sound in southern Barnstable, and the busy water shows the popularity of Cape Cod beaches for family holidays in this era.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from likeness: the man and the minor child are identifiable but unnamed, so commercial uses may require likeness review; no logos or artwork are visible.
Research search match: 1950s father and son beach home movie; 8mm Cape Cod family vacation; vintage child digging sand with watering can; Craigville Beach archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's 'boy pouring water from a toy watering can' and 'Father lifting boy onto a pony', then other Cape Cod clips such as the Storyland visit, then other mid-century beach-play footage.

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Father crouches beside his small son holding a yellow watering can at the surf on Craigville Beach, Cape Cod, circa 1956 — A father in a visored cap watches his son grip a yellow watering can on Craigville Beach, circa 1956.
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Small boy hunches over wet sand with a toy watering can beside his crouching father at Craigville Beach, circa 1956 — The boy bends low to dig at the water's edge while his father looks on, Craigville Beach, circa 1956.
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Smiling father in sunglasses crouches as his son digs sand, a gull flying over capped swimmers off Craigville Beach, circa 1956 — A gull crosses the sky as father and son dig together at the surf line on Craigville Beach, circa 1956.
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Son stands with a yellow watering can as his smiling father reaches out at the surf line of Craigville Beach, circa 1956 — The boy stands up with his watering can as his father reaches toward him, Craigville Beach, Cape Cod, circa 1956.
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