Hatfield Pennsylvania USA-1956: Unique Building With Large Windows

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

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Unique Building With Large Windows — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1956 in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, showing a dark building facade with large rectangular windows and arched architectural details. The grainy, low-light film captures the textured surface of the structure, with faint white trim outlining the windows and arches. The footage has a nostalgic, archival quality with visible film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of amateur 8mm home movies from the mid-20th century. The scene is static, focusing on the building's unique commercial design elements.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120788201

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip supports 1950s Pennsylvania architecture requests needing a brief exterior cutaway of a dark commercial or institutional facade with large windows and arched details.
Period detail: The 1956 metadata and visible multi-pane windows, pale trim, masonry surface, and arched doorway details may show mid-century small-town building design in Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the observational value of an amateur home-movie camera lingering on an unusual building exterior rather than staging an event or performance.
What appears in frame: Across the frames, the facade shows dark brick or stone texture, tall rectangular windows, arched openings, pale trim, a larger multi-pane window section, and low-light surface grain.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries heavy grain, dim exposure, soft focus, color fringing, and slight frame instability that read as physical home-movie texture from the 1950s.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief exterior insert, architectural cutaway, location transition, or quiet memory beat in a mid-century Pennsylvania sequence.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for a small-town building facade in the 1950s without enough evidence to identify the business, owner, architect, or public significance.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the visible exterior architecture should still be reviewed for property, location identification, and copyright considerations separately.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1956 Hatfield Pennsylvania building exterior, vintage 8mm dark facade large windows, mid-century small-town architecture, and arched window trim home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Hatfield 1956 exteriors, then broader 1950s Pennsylvania architecture or storefront facade footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania 8mm frame showing a dim dark facade with a tall multi-pane rectangular window and pale arched architectural trim below. — Dark facade with tall window and arched detail.

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania 8mm frame of a dark building wall with a pale-trimmed rectangular window and a partial arched detail at the lower right. — Window and partial arch on a dark exterior wall.

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania frame showing a low-light facade with a narrow multi-pane window, pale arch trim, and a faint rectangular marking or sign-like area on the wall. — Narrow window and arch detail in low light.

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania 8mm frame showing a dark exterior wall with a large multi-pane window section, pale vertical trim, and a smaller rectangular window at right. — Large multi-pane window section on the facade.

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