Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: Net Fishing On The Dock Of The Local Public Beach

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

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Net Fishing On The Dock Of The Local Public Beach — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Middletown Pennsylvania in 1975 captures a day of net fishing at a local public beach. The footage shows a wooden basket filled with freshly caught dark fish, followed by scenes of a long pole with a net being used to scoop fish from the water. The grainy, color-graded film has a distinct 1970s aesthetic with saturated purples and blues, typical of Super 8 home movies. The action unfolds on a wooden dock, with the net dipping into the water and pulling up a catch, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century recreational fishing.

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: 123221304

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 home-movie requests needing brief recreational fishing, dockside water activity, or public beach cutaways from Middletown, Pennsylvania.
Period detail: The 8mm source, handheld framing, wooden dock surface, pole net, and basketed fish may show mid-1940s recreational fishing practice without identifiable signage.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, watching a net dip into the water and a catch gathered at close range rather than presenting a formal demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden basket of dark fish, rippling blue water, a long pole, a mesh scoop net, dock boards, and the edge of a shoreline platform.
Film character: The scan carries dense 8mm grain, soft focus, handheld framing, high contrast, and strong blue-purple color shifts that give the clip physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, transition, or memory beat for fishing, public beach recreation, local water use, or family archive sequences.
Historical context: The clip suggests ordinary local leisure around water and small-scale net fishing, with no visible brands, landmarks, or event markers in the sampled frames.
Research note: Rights review should consider copyright plus any likeness issues from people flagged in the clip, while the sampled frames show no readable brands or private property markers.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1940s 8mm Middletown Pennsylvania fishing, home movie dock net fishing, public beach water recreation, or vintage fish catch footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Middletown or Pennsylvania material from the same year, then other home-movie fishing and public beach scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close 8mm frame of a wooden basket filled with dark fish on a dock, consistent with Middletown fishing footage. — A basket of freshly caught dark fish rests on a wooden dock surface.

A pole-mounted net reaches into rippling water beside a dock edge in the Middletown home-movie fishing scene. — The net pole extends into the water near the dock as something pale breaks the surface.

Soft, blurred 8mm frame showing the net or catch moving through blue water during dockside fishing. — Motion blur and water glare obscure the net as it moves through the frame.

A mesh scoop net attached to a long pole is held over open water in the Middletown, Pennsylvania fishing footage. — The pole net is lifted over the water, with the mesh bag hanging below the rim.

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