United States-1957: Children Smiling Beside Blueberry Bushes

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

childhood
rural life
agriculture
posing for the camera
everyday leisure
personal memory

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan · Approximately child eye level, with slightly upward framing
Setting: outdoor · Cultivated blueberry field with low crop rows, bare ground and scattered trees
Time and weather: Daytime · Likely summer · Clear and sunny
Lighting: Strong direct sunlight with deep facial shadows
People: 3 · Three children: a short-haired boy close to the left edge, an older child wearing a red pullover over a pale collared shirt, and a younger child in a light collared shirt at right.
Objects: white cloth · red pullover · pale collared shirts · blueberry bushes · trees · utility poles · partially visible curved metal structure
Colors: blue · red · green · cream · brown
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A boy stands close to the camera with a smiling child in red behind him.
The child in red lifts the white cloth and smiles toward the lens.
The framing shifts right to include a younger child in a pale shirt.
The child in red looks down while gathering the cloth.

Children Smiling Beside Blueberry Bushes — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1957 home movie footage shows children posing beside rows of blueberry bushes in bright sunshine. A boy fills the left foreground while an older child in a red sweater smiles and handles a white cloth. The camera shifts right, bringing a younger child in a pale collared shirt into view. The continuous handheld shot ends with the two children looking down and toward the camera.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800004489

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$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: 1957 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: This circa 1957 rural American portrait suits documentary requests for children smiling at an amateur camera beside cultivated crops.
Period detail: The red pullover, pale collared shirts and short or swept-back hairstyles provide broad midcentury clothing and grooming clues.
Home-movie behavior: The children alternate between smiling at the lens, glancing down and handling a cloth as the camera operator adjusts the framing.
What appears in frame: Three children appear with a red sweater, pale shirts, a white cloth, blueberry rows, scattered trees and blue sky.
Film character: Saturated color, soft detail, grain, dark specks, fine scratches and strong shadow contrast characterize this projected-film transfer.
Edit role: The shot works as a rural childhood cutaway or a short portrait beat between agricultural activities.
Historical context: Children standing beside cultivated berry rows connect a personal home movie portrait with an agricultural landscape, without identifying their role in the work.
Research note: Recognizable minors and an agricultural property setting are visible; film copyright ownership does not establish likeness or property permissions.
Research search match: The clip answers searches for circa 1957 American rural childhood, children beside blueberry bushes and color small-gauge home movie portraits.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's blueberry picking and berry close-ups, then with rural United States footage circa 1957, followed by other candid childhood portraits.

Still Frames From This Clip

Rural United States, circa 1957: a boy close to the lens and a child in a red sweater holding a white cloth beside blueberry rows. — A foreground boy and a child in red stand beside cultivated blueberry bushes.
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United States, circa 1957: a child in a red pullover smiles with one hand raised above a white cloth, beside a cropped foreground boy. — The child in red smiles and raises a hand while holding the cloth.
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United States, circa 1957: a child in red faces the camera with a white cloth as a younger child enters the rural portrait at right. — The framing centers the child in red and begins to include the younger child.
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Rural United States, circa 1957: a child in red gathers a white cloth while a younger child in a pale shirt stands alongside the berry rows. — Two children remain in view as the older child looks down at the cloth.
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