Hatfield Pennsylvania USA-1956: Shaky Footage Of House Yard And Tree

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationHatfield, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Pennsylvania

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Shaky Footage Of House Yard And Tree — Clip Details

Shaky 8mm home movie footage from 1956 in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, showing a residential yard through dense foliage. The camera moves unsteadily, capturing a house with a dark roof and a prominent pink wall, partially obscured by a large tree trunk and lush green shrubs. The scene is bathed in bright sunlight, with natural greenery dominating the frame and a white picket fence visible in the background. The film exhibits classic vintage characteristics including grain, slight color shifts, and a handheld, observational quality typical of personal family recordings from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorHandheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120787675

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 2359 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: west coast,paul s fackler
Reel-level year note: 1956
Reel-level location note: wesleyville pennsylvania
Date: 1956 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Hatfield, Pennsylvania, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s American home-movie requests needing a brief residential exterior cutaway or suburban yard atmosphere from Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-century residential landscaping and house materials, with a painted wall, dark roofline, mature trees, lawn, and picket-style fencing visible through foliage.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value comes from the handheld family-film perspective, where the camera drifts across a yard without posed action or formal composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a partially obscured house, pink exterior wall, dark roof, large tree trunks, dense shrubs, green grass, a white fence, and a paved or stone edge near the yard.
Film character: The 8mm image carries noticeable grain, saturated green and pink color shifts, bright daylight exposure, soft focus, and shaky handheld movement typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet exterior insert, memory transition, neighborhood cutaway, or establishing detail for a 1950s family-home sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents an ordinary residential yard and landscaping rather than a public event, offering visual context for domestic outdoor space in a mid-century Pennsylvania home movie.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1956 Hatfield Pennsylvania home movie yard, 1950s suburban house exterior 8mm, vintage family film foliage, and shaky residential garden footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1956 Hatfield material, then broader 1950s home-exterior, yard, garden, and suburban cutaway footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania home-movie frame showing a house exterior partly hidden by tree trunks, leafy shrubs, and a pink wall beneath a dark roof. — House exterior seen through trees and dense foliage.

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania frame with a pink residential wall, dark roofline, tree trunks, and dense green foliage filling much of the view. — Pink wall and roofline behind foreground trees.

Shaky 8mm frame from 1956 Hatfield showing a large tree trunk in a residential yard, with shrubs, grass, and a partially visible pink house wall behind it. — Large tree trunk and yard foliage in front of the house.

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania yard view with a large tree, bright lawn, dense shrubs, a small white fence section, and a stone or concrete border near the lower right. — Yard with tree, lawn, shrubs, and white fence section.

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