Ohio-1968: Grinning Boy Holds a Ventriloquist Dummy Beside a Girl With a Cat

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationOhio, United States
Duration3s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 · Ohio, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

Christmas morning
childhood
new toys
family holidays
siblings
pets at home
1960s domestic life

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: indoor · Family living room on Christmas morning, carpeted floor by the tree
Time and weather: morning · winter
Lighting: Warm artificial indoor light with glowing Christmas tree bulbs in a dark background
People: 3 · A boy in an olive-and-yellow print shirt, a girl in a striped top, and the back of another child's head in the foreground
Animals: tabby cat
Objects: ventriloquist dummy · plush toy · gift boxes · cardboard box · orange cushion · Christmas tree lights · Christmas ornaments · wristwatch
Colors: red · orange · olive · yellow · blue
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The boy grins widely, holding the ventriloquist dummy on his lap while the girl hugs a cat and a plush toy.
The camera drifts left, revealing opened gift boxes beside the boy.
The boy purses his lips and pulls a face at the camera with the dummy held up in front of him.

Grinning Boy Holds a Ventriloquist Dummy Beside a Girl... — Clip Details

Likely in Ohio, circa 1968, home movie footage shows a boy in an olive-and-yellow print shirt sitting on a carpeted floor by a lit Christmas tree, grinning as he holds a red-haired ventriloquist dummy in a red jacket. Beside him a girl in a striped top hugs a tabby cat and a fluffy multicoloured plush toy, with opened gift boxes and a large orange cushion around them. Near the end the boy purses his lips and pulls a face at the camera. The single handheld shot drifts slightly left in warm, grainy colour.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 3s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002178

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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: This clip fits requests for authentic late-1960s American Christmas morning footage of children with new toys, for documentaries, toy histories and nostalgia-led edits.
Period detail: The red-jacketed ventriloquist dummy, the print shirt, the striped top and the large tree bulbs may show late-1960s toys and fashion.
Home-movie behavior: The boy's unprompted grin and the face he pulls at the end catch a child showing off a gift for the family camera, not a staged performance.
What appears in frame: A grinning boy holding a red-haired dummy, a girl hugging a tabby cat and a plush toy, opened gift boxes, a big orange cushion and glowing tree lights.
Film character: Soft focus, lively grain and warm, saturated reds give the handheld shot the intimate texture of small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: Use it as a short memory beat or cutaway in a Christmas sequence, or as a reaction insert after a present-opening shot.
Historical context: It reflects a common postwar American home-movie custom of filming children with their new gifts on Christmas morning.
Research note: Identifiable minors appear in a private home and the people are unidentified, so likeness permissions are separate from film copyright, and the dummy's commercial toy design may need its own review.
Research search match: Researchers might search for vintage Christmas morning home movie, 1960s boy with ventriloquist dummy, children with new toys on film, or family Christmas small-gauge footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with this reel's tinsel-tree Christmas scenes and its earlier baby and toy-telephone clips, then with other Ohio or Midwest footage from about 1968, then with other Christmas gift moments.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1968 Christmas morning, likely in Ohio: a laughing boy holds a ventriloquist dummy beside a smiling girl with a tabby cat — A boy laughs as he shows off a ventriloquist dummy on Christmas morning, likely in Ohio, circa 1968.
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Late-1960s home movie still: a boy holds his red-haired ventriloquist dummy among opened Christmas gifts, likely in Ohio — Opened gift boxes come into view beside the boy and his new dummy, circa 1968.
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Circa 1968, likely Ohio: Christmas tree bulbs glow behind a boy holding a ventriloquist dummy on the living-room floor — Christmas tree bulbs glow behind the boy and his ventriloquist dummy, circa 1968.
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Late-1960s Christmas home movie, likely in Ohio: a boy pulls a face at the camera while holding his ventriloquist dummy — The boy pulls a face at the camera with his new dummy, likely in Ohio, circa 1968.
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