Colorado-1968: Smiling Girl Rides a Red Tricycle Through a Gate Toward the Camera

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 · Colorado, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

childhood
play
rural family life
home movies
farm living
outdoor summer
toys

Shot type: wide
Camera: static · handheld
Setting: outdoor · rural farmhouse yard with wooden gateposts, dirt lot and grass
Time and weather: day · late spring or summer · sunny
Lighting: bright direct sunlight with strong shade in the grass
People: 1 · One young girl with shoulder-length fair hair, wearing a white printed T-shirt and light trousers, riding a tricycle and smiling
Vehicles: red tricycle
Objects: wooden gateposts · wire fence · plank path · single-storey house · young trees · handlebar streamers · printed T-shirt
Readable signs: YELLOWSTONE
Colors: lavender · green · white · red · cream
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The girl rides her tricycle toward the camera between two wooden gateposts, the house behind her.
She reaches the gate opening, the dirt yard spreading out behind her.
She pedals onto the plank path in the grass, smiling.
She arrives in a medium shot close to the camera, grinning, her bear T-shirt clearly visible.

Smiling Girl Rides a Red Tricycle Through a Gate Toward... — Clip Details

Likely rural Colorado, circa 1968, home movie footage of a young girl riding a red tricycle toward the camera. She starts beyond a pair of weathered wooden gateposts, with a bare dirt yard, a cream single-storey house, young trees and a wire fence behind her. She pedals through the opening and up a plank path set in the grass, smiling, in a T-shirt printed with the word Yellowstone and a black bear. One handheld shot holds steady as she grows from a small figure to a medium shot.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 800001728

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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: 1968 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: Colorado, 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: Helps a request for late-1960s American rural childhood footage, giving a documentary or education producer a clear, complete moment of a child at play on a farm.
Period detail: The souvenir-style Yellowstone bear T-shirt, flared light trousers and a tricycle with wide streamer handlebars may show late-1960s children's fashion and toys.
Home-movie behavior: A girl rides straight at the family camera and breaks into a grin as she arrives, an unposed moment of a child showing off for whoever is filming.
What appears in frame: A smiling girl on a red tricycle, two weathered wooden gateposts with wire, a narrow plank path through grass, a bare dirt yard, and a cream single-storey house behind young trees.
Film character: Magenta-shifted colour, bright washed highlights, dust specks and fine grain give it the faded texture of projected small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: Works as a memory beat or a cutaway in a childhood montage, and her approach to the lens makes a natural lead-in to a family sequence.
Historical context: Farm families of the period often filmed children at play around the yard, and this scene shows a simple outdoor toy in an open rural setting.
Research note: The girl is an identifiable minor whose identity is unknown, the property is private, and the printed bear graphic may carry separate rights, so check likeness, property and copyright separately.
Research search match: girl on tricycle 1960s home movie, rural Colorado childhood film, vintage farm yard kids playing, small-gauge colour family footage
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's two girls by a shed, the family picnic and children dancing in a ring, then other rural Colorado scenes from about 1968, then wider childhood-play footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Girl on a red tricycle between farm gateposts with a cream house behind, likely rural Colorado, circa 1968 — A girl pedals her tricycle toward the camera between wooden gateposts, the farmhouse yard behind her.
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Smiling girl in a bear-print T-shirt rides a tricycle through a farm gate, likely Colorado, circa 1968 — Nearing the gate, the girl grips the wide handlebars of her tricycle.
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Girl on a red tricycle rides a plank path through farmyard grass, circa 1968 home movie, likely Colorado — She rides up a narrow board path laid through the grass, smiling at the camera.
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Girl in a Yellowstone bear T-shirt grins on her tricycle close to the camera, likely rural Colorado, circa 1968 — Close to the camera, the girl grins; her T-shirt reads Yellowstone above a black bear.
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