Ohio-1968: Blond Boy Blowing Up a Striped Beach Ball Beside a Woman in a Lawn Chair

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationOhio, United States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 · Ohio, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

childhood play
family camping
summer leisure
mother and child
1960s everyday life
outdoor recreation

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · wooded campground with sandy ground and tall deciduous trees
Time and weather: day · summer · sunny
Lighting: bright natural daylight with dappled shade
People: 2 · A blond boy of about four to six in a navy T-shirt with white and yellow stripes, and a dark-haired adult woman in a sleeveless peach dress seated in a lawn chair.
Vehicles: trailers or vehicles in background
Objects: green, white and orange beach ball · lawn chair with yellow slats · metal pole · taut line · hanging clothes · paper cup on ground
Colors: green · navy blue · peach · orange · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The boy holds the beach ball to his mouth as the woman in the lawn chair looks on.
He turns sideways and presses the valve to his lips.
He lifts one arm over the half-inflated ball as the camera reframes.
A brief orange light flare washes over the frame.
He keeps blowing while the woman looks down beside him.

Blond Boy Blowing Up a Striped Beach Ball Beside a Woman... — Clip Details

Likely Ohio, circa 1968, home movie footage from a wooded campground shows a blond boy in a navy T-shirt with white and yellow chest stripes blowing up a green, white and orange beach ball. A dark-haired woman in a sleeveless peach dress sits beside him in a lawn chair and watches. The boy turns sideways and keeps blowing into the valve of the half-inflated toy. The single handheld shot reframes as he moves, with trees, trailers and sandy ground behind them in summer sun.

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: 800002133

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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 & 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: Ohio, 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 requests for late-1960s American family camping or summer childhood play, useful in documentaries, nostalgia pieces and educational programs on everyday leisure.
Period detail: The woman's sleeveless shift dress, short curled hair, the slatted lawn chair and the striped beach ball may show late-1960s summer fashion and leisure goods.
Home-movie behavior: An unstaged family moment: the boy concentrates on inflating his toy while the seated woman watches casually, filmed by someone standing close by at the campsite.
What appears in frame: A blond boy in a striped navy T-shirt, a green, white and orange beach ball, a woman in a peach dress, a lawn chair, a metal pole and wooded campground ground behind.
Film character: Warm, saturated small-gauge colour with visible grain, dust specks, handheld reframing and a short orange light flare give the clip an authentic projected-film texture.
Edit role: Works as a memory beat or cutaway inside a summer vacation or childhood sequence, and as a light transition between outdoor family scenes.
Historical context: Campground holidays with trailers and folding lawn chairs appear widely in American home movies of the 1960s, and this scene reflects that informal family leisure.
Research note: The film is amateur material and both a minor and an adult are identifiable, so likeness permissions are a separate question from copyright in the footage.
Research search match: vintage boy blowing up beach ball; 1960s family camping home movie; late 1960s summer childhood footage; mother and son at campground.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's camping clips such as the mother walking a toddler through woods and the man raking at a campsite, then other circa 1968 Midwest camping footage, then summer play scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Boy holding a beach ball before a woman in a peach dress at a wooded campground, likely Ohio, circa 1968. — A boy lifts a striped beach ball toward his mouth as a woman watches from her lawn chair.
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Close view of a blond boy blowing into a striped beach ball at a campground, likely in Ohio, circa 1968. — The boy blows into the valve of the half-inflated beach ball.
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Boy wrestling a large beach ball beside a seated woman in a peach sleeveless dress, wooded campsite, circa 1968. — Turning sideways, the boy hooks one arm over the ball while the woman sits behind him.
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Still blowing, the boy stands beside the woman as she looks down from her lawn chair.

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