Hatfield Pennsylvania USA-1956: A Big Home With White Windows At Night

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

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A Big Home With White Windows At Night — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1956 in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, showing a dark exterior wall with multiple white-framed windows at night. The grainy, low-light image captures a quiet residential scene with subtle green foliage visible in the upper left corner. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics including heavy grain, slight color distortion, and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, archival atmosphere. The camera remains mostly static, focusing on the architectural details of the house under dim ambient lighting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorNight
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120788235

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: 1950s 8mm residential-night exterior footage for documentary, education, museum, or commercial edits needing a quiet domestic establishing cutaway from Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
Period detail: The white-framed multi-pane windows, dark exterior wall, low ambient lighting, and muted color response may show mid-1950s home-movie documentation of a large residential facade.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a family camera lingering on a house at night rather than documenting a planned public event or performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark house exterior, rows of white-framed windows, faint tree foliage near the roofline, deep shadow, soft focus, and low-light film grain.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries heavy grain, dim exposure, greenish color shift, soft focus, and slight frame instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief night exterior insert, domestic transition, memory beat, or architectural cutaway within a 1950s family or neighborhood sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a restrained view of postwar domestic space through a private residential exterior, without visible people, signage, vehicles, or public activity in these frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or indicated, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1956 Hatfield Pennsylvania 8mm house exterior at night, 1950s home movie white windows, and vintage residential facade night footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other material from the same reel, then with Hatfield or Pennsylvania footage from 1956, and then with broader 1950s residential exterior or night home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania 8mm frame showing a dim residential exterior with several white-framed windows and faint foliage near the roofline. — Dark residential facade with white windows at night.

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania 8mm frame of the upper house facade at night, with white window frames partly obscured by darkness and foliage. — Upper house windows in dim night light.

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania 8mm frame showing lower white-framed windows on a dark residential exterior, with heavy grain and soft focus. — Lower windows on the dark house exterior.

1956 Hatfield, Pennsylvania 8mm frame of a shadowed house facade with white-framed windows, low exposure, and visible film grain. — Shadowed facade with white-framed windows.

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