Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: Man in Suit and Woman in Striped Dress Standing in Field

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

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Man in Suit and Woman in Striped Dress Standing in Field — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Middletown Pennsylvania in 1975, featuring a man in a light-colored suit and patterned tie standing outdoors in a grassy field. The footage then cuts to a woman in a striped dress, both smiling at the camera. The scene is set against a backdrop of distant hills and a pale sky, with a tree visible in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, capturing a candid moment of mid-century Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 123225273

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

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 requests needing late-1940s 8mm home-movie footage of adults posing outdoors in rural Pennsylvania for documentary, museum, or period-memory sequences.
Period detail: The light suit, patterned tie, striped dress, soft colors, and open field setting may show late-1940s social dress and informal outdoor family filming.
Home-movie behavior: The man and woman stand close to the camera and smile, giving the clip an unstaged family-portrait quality rather than a formal public event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a suited man, a woman in a striped dress, grassy field, pale sky, distant hills, a small tree, and soft home-movie framing.
Film character: The clip has 8mm grain, faded color, soft focus, mild blur, and handheld exposure shifts that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, personal-history insert, rural family cutaway, or transition between broader Pennsylvania home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The footage presents adults outdoors in everyday social clothing, offering visual context for informal family filming and rural leisure settings.
Research note: Faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright status is separate from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1940s 8mm home movie, Middletown Pennsylvania family footage, adults posing in field, and vintage rural portrait footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Middletown 1948 material, then related rural family-portrait or outdoor social scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A man in a light suit and patterned tie stands in a field near Middletown, Pennsylvania, in late-1940s 8mm home-movie footage. — Man in a light suit smiles toward the camera in an open field.

Soft-focus 8mm frame of the suited man closer to the camera, with field and pale sky still visible behind him. — Closer view of the suited man as he faces the home-movie camera.

A woman in a striped dress smiles toward the camera in a Middletown, Pennsylvania field in late-1940s home-movie footage. — Woman in a striped dress stands smiling in the open field.

The woman remains framed in the field, smiling at the camera with a tree, hills, and pale sky behind her. — Woman continues posing for the handheld 8mm camera in the field.

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