United States-1943: Boy in Cap and Jacket Shovelling Snow Beside a Brick and Stone House

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Year1943
Decade1940s
LocationUnited States
Duration9s
Price$149 USD
Collection1943 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

winter chores
childhood
home life
snow day
1940s domestic life
family home movies
work and responsibility

Shot type: wide
Camera: static
Setting: outdoor · Snow-covered walk or yard beside the corner of a brick house with a fieldstone lower wall and snow-capped shrubs
Time and weather: day · winter · sunny, after snowfall
Lighting: hard direct sunlight with deep shadows
People: 1 · A boy in a dark cap, dark jacket and trousers, shovelling snow; his face is small and soft in the frame.
Objects: long-handled shovel · brick wall · fieldstone wall section · snow-covered shrubs · evergreen shrub
Colors: white · black · grey
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The boy stands on the snowy walk and pushes his shovel forward.
Focus softens briefly as he steps across the walk.
He bends into another stroke, scraping toward the camera.
He steps forward and drives the shovel along the ground.
He shifts his grip and lifts the handle as the take ends.

Boy in Cap and Jacket Shovelling Snow Beside a Brick and... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1943, home movie footage shows a boy in a dark cap and jacket shovelling a sunlit, snow-covered walk beside a brick house with a fieldstone base. He scrapes and pushes the snow forward, pauses, shifts his grip and carries on, while snow-capped shrubs sit against the wall and a long notched shadow crosses the ground. The black-and-white scene is filmed in one static, eye-level take, with a brief soft-focus moment and visible film texture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
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: 9s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001863

Rights & Clearance

$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: 1943 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: 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 1940s American winter domestic life, giving documentaries and education projects an authentic home-movie view of a child doing a snow chore.
Period detail: The boy's cap, jacket and trousers and the brick and fieldstone house may reflect early-1940s style, and the same reel section shows a 1941-42 American sedan on the street.
Home-movie behavior: The boy gets on with an ordinary task while a family member films, giving an unposed glimpse of everyday winter work at home.
What appears in frame: A boy in a dark cap and jacket, a long-handled shovel, a sunlit snowy walk, a brick wall with a fieldstone lower section, snow-capped shrubs and a long diagonal shadow across the snow.
Film character: High-contrast black-and-white small-gauge film with a crackled, veined emulsion texture, a hair in the gate, dust spots, edge vignetting and one brief soft-focus moment.
Edit role: Works as a winter cutaway, a memory beat in a family-history sequence, or a quiet establishing insert before wider snow-play shots from the same reel.
Historical context: Shows an ordinary household winter task at a brick home, the kind of everyday scene that home cameras captured and newsreels seldom did.
Research note: The boy is an unidentified minor and the house is private property; treat likeness and property separately from the copyright in the home-movie film, and clearance cannot be guaranteed.
Research search match: Matches searches such as 1940s boy shovelling snow, vintage winter chore home movie, black and white snow day footage, and small-gauge family film from the American home front.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's children playing in snow before a 1940s car, children belly-sledding and child tumbling in snow by vintage truck, then with other 1940s US winter street footage, then with childhood chore themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Boy holding a snow shovel on a sunlit walk beside a brick and fieldstone house in the United States, circa 1943 — A boy pauses with his shovel on a cleared patch of the walk, with a brick house wall behind him, circa 1943.
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Blurred frame of a boy stepping across a snowy walk with his shovel beside a brick house, United States, circa 1943 — For a moment the focus softens as the boy steps across the snow with his shovel.
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Boy facing the camera and pushing a shovel through snow by a brick house, United States, circa 1943, with a hair on the film — The boy pushes his shovel toward the camera while a hair caught in the projector gate curls across the frame.
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Boy working a long-handled shovel on a snowy walk below a brick and fieldstone wall, United States, circa 1943 — Near the end of the take the boy angles his shovel into the snow below the brick and stone wall.
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