Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: Car Passing on Tree-Lined Highway

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

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Car Passing on Tree-Lined Highway — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this clip captures a driver's perspective on a scenic highway in Middletown, Pennsylvania. The view from inside the car shows a classic light-colored automobile being passed on a multi-lane road lined with trees and hills. The footage features a concrete underpass and a guardrail, with a slightly overcast sky. The grainy, color-tinted quality of the Super 8 film evokes a strong sense of nostalgia and mid-century Americana. This authentic home movie footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123220945

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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing mid-century road travel or driver's-point-of-view highway footage for documentary inserts, transitions, or transportation context.
Period detail: The rounded light-colored automobile, simple guardrails, open roadside, and small concrete overpass may show late 1940s or early postwar highway travel.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the passenger or driver viewpoint from a moving car, preserving an unstaged road encounter as another automobile passes or is passed.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a light-colored sedan, divided roadway, guardrails, trees, low hills, an overcast sky, and a concrete underpass.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, muted color, gate edges, exposure variation, and slight handheld movement consistent with home-movie road footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a driving insert, travel transition, memory beat, or cutaway for automobile culture and roadside movement.
Historical context: The clip places the viewer inside a moving car on an open Pennsylvania-area roadway, emphasizing everyday regional travel rather than a staged event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are discernible in these frames, but copyright and any roadway or vehicle identification issues still require separate review.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 8mm highway driving, vintage car passing on road, mid-century Pennsylvania roadway, driver's view travel footage, and home movie underpass.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Middletown or Pennsylvania road footage from the same stated year, then with vintage driving and highway themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Driver's-side view of a light-colored vintage sedan on a divided roadway near Middletown, Pennsylvania, with trees and low hills beyond. — A light-colored sedan moves alongside the filming car on a divided highway bordered by trees.

A light-colored vintage sedan travels ahead on a Pennsylvania-area divided road, framed by guardrails, trees, and hazy hills. — The sedan appears ahead of the filming car on an open roadway with guardrails and wooded edges.

The moving-car view shifts toward the roadside, showing guardrail, tree cover, roadway, and distant landscape in home-movie footage. — The camera looks along the guardrail and wooded roadside as the car continues down the highway.

A concrete underpass or overpass crosses the roadway ahead in a driver's-view shot near Middletown, Pennsylvania, with guardrails and hills visible. — The road approaches a concrete overpass set into open roadside embankments.

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