Ohio-1968: Two Boys Casting Spinning Rods From a Wooded Pond Bank

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationOhio, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 · Ohio, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

childhood
fishing
summer recreation
family camping
friendship
outdoor leisure
nature

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld
Setting: outdoor · Pond bank in dense deciduous summer woods with brush along the far shore
Time and weather: day · summer · overcast
Lighting: Flat, diffuse daylight under a bright white sky
People: 2 · Two preteen or young teenage boys, one in a white T-shirt and jeans, one in a blue T-shirt and dark trousers, both fishing.
Objects: spinning rods · fishing reels · fishing line · orange float · T-shirts · jeans
Colors: blue-violet · green · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The boy in white draws his rod back as the boy in blue reels in toward the water.
The two boys overlap on the bank while an orange float swings near the rod tip.
The boy in white casts forward and holds his rod out straight over the pond.
Both boys stand side by side watching their lines.

Two Boys Casting Spinning Rods From a Wooded Pond Bank — Clip Details

Probably in Ohio, circa 1968 home movie footage of two boys fishing from the bank of a pond ringed by dense summer woods. One, in a white T-shirt, swings a long spinning rod back over his shoulder and casts, while his companion in a blue T-shirt reels in beside him. Near the end the caster holds his line out straight over the still water. The single handheld shot is on small-gauge colour film with a strong blue-violet cast and soft focus.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002136

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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: Answers requests for late-1960s American children fishing on a summer camping trip, useful for documentaries on childhood, leisure or family travel.
Period detail: The plain cotton T-shirts, jeans and short boyish haircuts may show late-1960s everyday dress, though the woodland setting itself carries no dated object.
Home-movie behavior: The boys fish with absorbed, unposed concentration, ignoring the camera, which gives an honest glimpse of children busy at an ordinary summer pastime.
What appears in frame: Two boys on a pond bank, a long bending spinning rod with an orange float near its tip, a reel held at waist height, still dark water, and a wall of summer trees under a pale sky.
Film character: Projected small-gauge colour with a strong blue-violet shift, soft focus, fine grain, dust specks and a brief vertical line give it an unmistakable home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as a memory-beat insert or cutaway within a summer or camping sequence, and as a gentle transition into childhood recollections.
Historical context: Family camping with truck campers and trailers, shown elsewhere in this reel section, grew popular in 1960s America, and pond fishing was a common part of such trips.
Research note: The film's copyright and the likeness rights of the identifiable minors are separate questions; the boys are unidentified and the pond's ownership is unknown.
Research search match: boys fishing pond 1960s home movie; children casting rods summer woods; vintage family camping fishing footage; small-gauge film kids fishing
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's boy landing a fish at a pond and family unloading fishing gear from a car trunk, then other circa 1968 Midwest camping clips, then vintage fishing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1968 home movie, probably Ohio: boy in white swings a fishing rod back as a boy in blue reels in at a wooded pond — Two boys fish from a pond bank in summer woods, one drawing his rod back for a cast, circa 1968.
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Late-1960s small-gauge film, likely Ohio: two boys stand close on a pond bank as an orange float dangles from a rod tip — The boys crowd together at the water's edge while a curved rod swings overhead.
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Circa 1968 Midwest home movie, probably Ohio: boy in blue from behind as his companion raises a long rod by a pond — Seen from behind, the boy in blue watches as his companion lifts a long rod over the pond.
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Circa 1968 home movie, likely Ohio: boy in white extends a spinning rod over a woodland pond beside a boy in blue — After the cast, the boy in white holds his line out over the still pond while his companion looks on.
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