Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: Man Wearing Suit

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationMiddletown, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man Wearing Suit — Clip Details

A man in a vintage 1940s-style suit with a patterned bow tie and white pocket square sits in a car, hands clasped. The black-and-white 8mm film shows grainy texture and soft focus, with a circular vignette effect typical of home movies. The man smiles warmly at the camera, his face framed by bare winter trees in the background. This archival footage captures a moment of quiet confidence and mid-century elegance.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: InteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123224578

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

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: 1948 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This clip helps solve requests for late-1940s home-movie footage of a well-dressed adult man for documentary inserts, personal-history sequences, or period character references.
Period detail: The suit jacket, patterned bow tie, pocket square, car upholstery, and black-and-white 8mm look may show late-1940s styling in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
Home-movie behavior: The man sits close to the camera with clasped hands and a small smile, giving the footage an informal posed-home-movie quality rather than a staged production feel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include clasped hands, a tailored suit jacket, patterned bow tie, white pocket square, car seat or door frame, bare trees, soft focus, and circular lens vignetting.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and rounded dark edge falloff that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief character insert, memory beat, family-history cutaway, or transition into a mid-century personal archive sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually suggests formal everyday dress and a posed moment near or inside a car, but it does not by itself identify an event, occupation, or relationship.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed in addition to any copyright or collection-rights assessment.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s man in suit home movie, black-and-white 8mm portrait in car, Middletown Pennsylvania archival footage, and bow tie pocket square home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Middletown 1948 material, then broader 1940s family, car, portrait, or formal-dress home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 8mm frame from Middletown, Pennsylvania showing a man's clasped hands over a suit jacket near a car interior. — The opening frame focuses on the man's clasped hands and suit front beside a dark car seat or door.

Black-and-white 8mm close-up of clasped hands on a suit jacket, consistent with the clip's late-1940s home-movie setting. — A tighter view shows the man's clasped hands and suit fabric within the dark circular edge of the frame.

A suited adult man with patterned bow tie and pocket square sits beside a car in black-and-white 8mm home-movie footage. — The camera frames the seated man from chest to lap, showing his bow tie, pocket square, and car behind him.

In Middletown, Pennsylvania, a smiling adult man in a suit and patterned bow tie sits near a car with bare trees in the background. — The final frame shows the man's face, bow tie, lapel pin, pocket square, car body, and winter-like trees behind him.

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