Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: Vintage Film Of Flowers And A Tomato On A Cutting Board

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Year1947
Decade1940s
LocationMiddletown, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1947 Middletown

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Vintage Film Of Flowers And A Tomato On A Cutting Board — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched garden scene in Middletown, Pennsylvania. The footage features vibrant pink and red flowers with lush green foliage, followed by a close-up of a ripe, yellowish-green tomato resting on a wooden cutting board. The natural light and slight film grain evoke a nostalgic, domestic atmosphere, characteristic of mid-1970s home recordings. This archival clip offers authentic, unscripted moments of everyday life and gardening.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123210344

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: 1947 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: Middletown, 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

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: Useful for 1940s archival requests needing brief 8mm domestic cutaways of garden plants and homegrown produce in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
Period detail: The frames themselves show flowers, foliage, and a tomato on a wooden cutting board, with the 1947 date and Middletown, Pennsylvania location supported by clip metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie attention to garden growth and household produce, with no people visible in the sampled frames.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pink and red flowers, dense green leaves, garden soil or walkway edges, a yellowish-green tomato, a wooden cutting board, and sunlit outdoor surfaces.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, saturated daylight color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short domestic-life insert, garden transition, produce cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a period sequence.
Historical context: The imagery reflects everyday home gardening and food preparation rather than a public event, institution, or identifiable landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location context, and any property-related use should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches might include 1940s 8mm home movie garden flowers, Middletown Pennsylvania home gardening footage, tomato on cutting board archival clip, and vintage domestic produce cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Middletown or 1947 home-movie material, then thematically related garden, vegetable, kitchen, or domestic-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Pink flowers and leafy garden plants filmed in soft-focus 8mm footage, supported by metadata as Middletown, Pennsylvania in 1947. — Sunlit flowers and foliage in a garden.

Close garden view of a pink flower and dense green foliage in archival 8mm footage from Middletown, Pennsylvania according to metadata. — Close view of a flower among leaves.

Leafy garden plants with a pink flower and bright outdoor light, presented as 1947 Middletown, Pennsylvania home-movie footage by metadata. — Garden plants filling the frame.

A yellowish-green tomato sits on a wooden cutting board on an outdoor surface in archival home-movie footage from Middletown, Pennsylvania per metadata. — Tomato on a wooden cutting board.

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