Texas-1962: Family Group Sitting on Blankets in the Shade of Tall Trees

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationTexas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 · Texas, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

family gathering
summer picnic
outdoor leisure
early 1960s fashion
rest in the shade
American home life

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld
Setting: outdoor · shaded lawn under tall trees beside a chain-link fence and a pale building with a slatted upper wall, probably a lakeside park
Time and weather: midday · summer · sunny
Lighting: bright sun filtered through leaves, dappled shade
People: 11 · Adult men in straw hats and white or blue short-sleeved shirts, women in summer dresses and sunglasses, a woman in a dark swimsuit, a woman in a pink sun hat, a smaller companion who may be a child, and a man standing at the fence
Vehicles: parked car behind fence
Objects: blankets · straw hats · pink sun hat · sunglasses · red-and-white carton · chain-link fence · low concrete wall · tree trunks
Colors: green · lavender · navy blue · white · pale pink
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A woman in a pink sun hat sits at left beside men in straw hats as a man leans on the fence behind.
The pan moves across the seated group and a large tree trunk enters the frame.
A woman in a dark swimsuit is visible at the back of the group.
The shot ends on a woman in sunglasses and a smaller companion by the tree, with open lawn beyond.

Family Group Sitting on Blankets in the Shade of Tall Trees — Clip Details

Likely Texas, circa 1962 home movie footage of a large family group resting on blankets on a shaded lawn. Men in straw hats and white shirts, women in summer dresses and sunglasses, and a woman in a dark swimsuit sit close together around a red-and-white carton beside a chain-link fence. The handheld 8mm camera pans slowly right from a woman in a pink sun hat to a broad tree trunk and a sunlit lawn edged by a low concrete wall.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorHandheld
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: 800001779

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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: Texas, 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: This clip fits requests for early-1960s American family leisure, giving documentary and education producers a real home-movie picnic in summer shade, likely in Texas.
Period detail: The straw hats, cat-eye-style sunglasses, a woman's wide pink sun hat, the dark one-piece swimsuit and the short-sleeved shirts may show early-1960s summer fashion.
Home-movie behavior: The relatives sit casually on the ground and glance toward the camera as it passes, an unposed record of a family resting together on a hot day.
What appears in frame: The frame holds a woman in a pink sun hat, men in straw hats on blankets, a woman in a dark swimsuit, a red-and-white carton, a chain-link fence with a parked car behind it, and a thick tree trunk by an open lawn.
Film character: Soft-focus 8mm colour with visible grain, a blue-magenta colour shift and dappled sunlight give the handheld pan the texture of a period family film.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a memory beat or cutaway, with the slow pan working as a gentle transition into lake or picnic sequences.
Historical context: Families picnicking on park lawns near swimming spots were common in American summer life, and this group's mix of everyday clothes and swimwear reflects that kind of informal day out.
Research note: The film's copyright and the likeness rights of the identifiable adults, and of a possible child, are separate matters, and the building and parked car appear only incidentally; no clearance is implied.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 8mm 1960s family picnic, people on blankets under trees, early-sixties straw hats, or a vintage Texas summer outing home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with this reel's men at a family picnic, lake dock diving and horseplay on a park lawn clips, then with other early-1960s Texas outings, then with summer picnic footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1962 family picnic, likely in Texas: a woman in a pink sun hat sits on a blanket near men in straw hats in tree shade — A woman in a pink sun hat sits at the edge of the family group as a man leans on the fence behind, circa 1962.
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Early-1960s relatives in straw hats and short sleeves sit close together under trees, probably Texas, circa 1962 — The camera pans across the seated relatives as a broad tree trunk comes into view.
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Circa 1962 8mm home movie still: a woman in a dark swimsuit stands among relatives picnicking in the shade, likely Texas — A woman in a dark swimsuit at the back hints at the swimming outing that went with this picnic.
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End of the pan, circa 1962: a woman in a dark top sits by a tree beside a smaller companion, sunlit lawn behind, likely Texas — The pan ends on a woman and a smaller companion seated by the tree, with an open sunlit lawn beyond.
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