Harrisburg Pennsylvania USA-1975: Christmas Card and Swim Book Excerpt

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationHarrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1975 Harrisburg Pennsylvania

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Christmas Card and Swim Book Excerpt — Clip Details

A close-up view of a vintage 8mm home movie from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1975, showing a handwritten Christmas card with 'Merry Christmas From Peg & Jim' and holly illustrations. The clip transitions to a dark frame, then reveals a newspaper excerpt describing a swim suit, with a small photo of a swimmer. The footage displays classic Super 8 film grain, scratches, and a nostalgic, personal feel, capturing a moment of holiday memory and family life.

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: 123201353

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: 1975 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 1970s archival requests needing a brief home-movie insert of personal holiday writing and printed reading material.
Period detail: The handwritten Christmas greeting and printed swim-suit excerpt may show mid-1970s domestic ephemera consistent with the supplied Harrisburg, Pennsylvania metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the close, observational handling of ordinary keepsakes rather than a staged event or public scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cursive Christmas handwriting, small holly drawings, dark leader-like frames, columns of printed text, and a small swim-suit illustration.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, heavy grain, gate shadows, uneven exposure, and slight frame instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a memory insert, diary-like transition, or cutaway connecting family holidays with everyday printed artifacts.
Historical context: The clip reflects a private-material culture of cards, books, clippings, and photographed text without showing identifiable people or public activity.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but printed text and illustrations may involve separate copyright review beyond likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Searches for 1970s 8mm Christmas card close-up, handwritten holiday note, vintage book excerpt, or home movie ephemera may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then Harrisburg 1975 material, then other holiday cards, books, gifts, or domestic object cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close-up of a handwritten Christmas greeting reading in part Merry Christmas from Peg and Jim, with small holly sketches on film. — Cursive Christmas greeting and decorative holly marks fill the frame.

A near-black transition frame from the 8mm scan, with a narrow partial edge of paper barely visible at left. — Dark transitional frame between close-ups of paper materials.

Close-up of printed text mentioning a swim suit and clothing details, cropped tightly within the 8mm home-movie frame. — Cropped printed excerpt describes a swim suit and related clothing details.

Close-up of a printed page showing text columns, a small swim-suit illustration, and the caption SWIM SUIT. — A small printed swim-suit illustration appears between columns of text.

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