Harrisburg Pennsylvania USA-1975: Title Cards from 'Life in Color'

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationHarrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Harrisburg Penn

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Title Cards from 'Life in Color' — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm film clip from 1946, showing a typed title card reading "LIFE - IN - COLOR" followed by a disclaimer: "Any resemblance to persons, dead or alive..is just what we were striving to do." The footage concludes with a classic "THE END" card dated 1946, framed by decorative borders. Shot on 8mm film with visible grain and soft focus, this archival home movie captures the playful, amateur aesthetic of mid-20th century personal filmmaking.

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: 123201259

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1946 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: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 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: Useful for 1940s home-movie title-card requests, amateur film openings or endings, and documentary inserts about personal filmmaking or archival presentation style.
Period detail: The typed cards, decorative border, 1946 date, and soft 8mm texture support a mid-1940s amateur film context, with Harrisburg, Pennsylvania supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: No people are visible, but the handmade title and joke disclaimer convey the playful self-awareness of a family or amateur filmmaker addressing an audience.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include typed paper title cards, cropped text, a 1946 date, black film-edge framing, soft focus, grain, dust, and a decorative end-card border.
Film character: The clip has dense grain, uneven exposure, soft focus, gate shadowing, and contact-print texture that read as original small-gauge archival film material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an opening insert, chapter break, humorous transition, end-card beat, or visual shorthand for amateur 1940s color home movies.
Historical context: The cards show how a nonprofessional filmmaker framed a personal production with theatrical title language, humor, and a formal ending card.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright and title-card authorship should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1946 8mm title card, Life in Color home movie, typed amateur film disclaimer, vintage The End card, and Harrisburg Pennsylvania archival film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other 1946 Harrisburg material, then broader home-movie title cards, end cards, and amateur film leader inserts.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm home-movie card with cropped typed text about resemblance to persons, shown in soft focus with dark film-edge framing. — Cropped typed disclaimer card from the amateur film sequence.

Soft 8mm frame of a typed 1946 disclaimer card, with the phrase about resemblance to persons partly legible. — Typed disclaimer text fills the frame with visible grain and edge shadow.

Close, soft 8mm view of the amateur film disclaimer card, with typed lines and the 1946 date partly visible above. — Close view of the joke disclaimer card used before the film ending.

1946 8mm end card reading THE END, dated 1946, surrounded by a simple decorative border on gray paper. — Decorative typed end card closes the amateur film sequence.

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