Hatfield Pennsylvania USA-1956: A Backyard Path Leading Up To A House

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

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A Backyard Path Leading Up To A House — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1956 in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, showing a quiet suburban backyard. The clip features a grassy yard with mature trees, a brick retaining wall, and a white picket fence. A classic black lamppost stands near a path leading toward a house. The film exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and soft focus typical of mid-century home movies. The scene captures a peaceful, nostalgic moment of mid-century American domestic life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120787718

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports archival requests for 1950s American suburban home-movie cutaways showing a quiet backyard path, lawn, trees, fencing, and domestic exterior details in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1950s suburban landscaping cues such as a brick retaining wall, white picket fencing, a simple lawn path, mature shade trees, and a black lamppost near the yard.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value is a brief home-movie glance across a residential yard, recording ordinary domestic space without people, performance, or posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grassy backyard, mature trees, leafy shrubs, a brick retaining wall, a white picket fence, a dark lamppost, a walkway, and shaded lawn areas.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, modest color fading, uneven exposure, and a slightly blurred home-movie texture consistent with mid-century amateur filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, memory beat, seasonal transition, or domestic-life cutaway within a sequence about 1950s suburban neighborhoods.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for ordinary postwar residential outdoor space, emphasizing maintained lawns, shade plantings, modest hardscape, and backyard privacy rather than public landmarks.
Research note: No people, faces, children, logos, or audible music are visible or indicated, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1950s Hatfield Pennsylvania backyard, vintage 8mm suburban lawn, home movie picket fence and lamppost, and mid-century residential exterior cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Hatfield or 1956 residential footage, and then with broader themes of suburban yards, home exteriors, lawns, and domestic memory.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania home-movie frame showing a shaded backyard lawn with mature trees, leafy shrubs, a brick retaining wall, and a white fence beyond the grass. — Backyard lawn with brick wall and fence.

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania home-movie frame with a dark lamppost beside a path, a grassy yard, mature trees, and soft-focus landscaping in the background. — Lamppost beside the backyard path.

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania home-movie frame looking across a green backyard toward a pale fence, shaded trees, shrubs, and a curving light-toned path or lawn edge. — Green backyard looking toward the fence.

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania home-movie frame showing dense leafy shade, a white fence partly visible through the trees, and a dark foreground area at the edge of the yard. — White fence glimpsed through shaded foliage.

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