Craigville Beach Massachusetts-1956: Small Boy Pouring Water from a Toy Watering Can by a Sand Castle

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationCraigville Beach, Massachusetts, United States
Duration7s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 · Craigville Beach, Massachusetts, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

childhood
beach play
summer vacation
family holiday
1950s leisure
seaside tourism
water play

Shot type: close-up
Camera: handheld
Setting: outdoor · Sandy ocean beach at the water's edge with a sand castle and breaking surf
Time and weather: midday · summer · sunny
Lighting: bright direct sunlight with hard shadows
People: 1 · One small boy of preschool age, shirtless in pale swim trunks, with short dark hair
Objects: toy watering can · sand castle · sand pail · shallow pool of water · waves
Colors: violet blue · yellow · red · sand brown
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: High

Moments in the footage

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The boy squats by the sand castle, tipping the yellow watering can toward a pool.
A stream of water runs from the spout as his other hand reaches down.
He pours water over his fingers.
He lowers the can and rubs his wet hands together.
He smiles as waves roll in behind him.

Small Boy Pouring Water from a Toy Watering Can by a... — Clip Details

Craigville Beach, Barnstable, Massachusetts, circa 1956 home movie footage shows a small boy in pale swim trunks squatting at the water's edge beside a heaped sand castle. He tips a yellow and red toy watering can with a green handle so water runs into a shallow pool, then rubs his wet hands together and smiles. Waves break on Nantucket Sound behind him. The single handheld close shot runs without a cut on colour 8mm film with a strong blue-violet cast.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
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: 7s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001679

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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: 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: Fits a request for authentic circa 1956 American childhood or Cape Cod beach-holiday footage in documentaries, museum pieces and nostalgic commercial work.
Period detail: The colour stock's cast, the boy's short haircut and swim trunks, and the plastic watering can and pail may show mid-1950s seaside leisure.
Home-movie behavior: A parent's camera stays close on a child absorbed in his own game, catching an unprompted smile rather than a posed moment.
What appears in frame: A shirtless small boy squatting, a yellow and red watering can with a green handle, a heaped sand castle, a shallow pool, a blue sand pail and waves breaking behind.
Film character: Colour 8mm with a strong blue-violet cast, saturated yellows and reds, visible grain and a gentle handheld drift that gives it a lived-in home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as a close insert or memory beat inside a summer-holiday sequence, or as a cutaway after a wider beach establishing shot.
Historical context: It shows postwar family seaside leisure on Cape Cod, where Craigville Beach lies on Nantucket Sound between Centerville and Hyannis Port.
Research note: The film's copyright and the likeness of the identifiable minor are separate matters, and the child is unidentified, so likeness use should be reviewed under the licence terms for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches such as 1950s child on beach, vintage 8mm sand castle, Cape Cod home movie, and boy with toy watering can.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with 'father and son digging at the surf line' from the same reel, then other Craigville Beach and Storyland, Hyannis clips from the trip, then other 1950s beach-play footage.

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Small boy tipping a yellow toy watering can beside a sand castle at Craigville Beach, Cape Cod, circa 1956 — A boy tips his toy watering can beside a sand castle at Craigville Beach, circa 1956.
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Water streams from a child's toy watering can into a sandy pool on the Nantucket Sound shore, circa 1956 — A thin stream runs from the spout as the boy reaches toward the water with his free hand.
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Squatting boy pours water over his fingers from a red and yellow can on a Cape Cod beach, circa 1956 8mm film — The boy lets water drip over his fingers beside the sand castle.
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Smiling boy rubs wet hands together after setting down his watering can at Craigville Beach, Massachusetts, circa 1956 — With the can set down, the boy rubs his wet hands together as small waves roll in.
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