Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: Slightly Out Of Focus Woman Walks Toward Camera On Lawn

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

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Slightly Out Of Focus Woman Walks Toward Camera On Lawn — Clip Details

A slightly out-of-focus woman with short dark hair and a striped blouse walks toward the camera on a grassy lawn in Middletown, Pennsylvania, circa 1975. Shot on 8mm film, the clip captures her smiling face as she moves forward, with a distant ocean and trees visible in the background. The footage has a soft, nostalgic quality with natural lighting and subtle film grain, evoking a personal home movie from the mid-1970s. The camera remains steady as she approaches, creating an intimate, candid moment.

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: 123225318

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: Useful for requests needing late-1940s home-movie footage of an adult woman outdoors, especially personal-memory, family-history, or everyday-life documentary edits.
Period detail: The striped blouse, short styled hair, soft color stock, and 8mm framing may show late-1940s domestic leisure details, though the frames do not confirm exact date.
Home-movie behavior: The woman smiles and walks toward the camera in an informal, responsive way, giving the clip the value of an unstaged family-film encounter.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a smiling woman, striped blouse, grassy lawn, sparse trees, distant horizon, soft sky, and dark contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and steady 8mm home-movie framing that create authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a memory beat, character insert, family-life cutaway, or gentle transition within mid-century personal archive sequences.
Historical context: The scene shows a woman being filmed outdoors on a lawn, reflecting casual home-movie attention to family or social presence rather than a public event.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed in addition to separate copyright or source licensing checks.
Research search match: Research matches include 8mm woman walking toward camera, 1940s home movie lawn, smiling woman striped blouse, and Middletown Pennsylvania family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Middletown or 1948 material, then broader home-movie scenes of women outdoors and family lawns.

Still Frames From This Clip

Woman turns sideways on a grassy lawn, framed softly against trees and a distant horizon.

Soft 8mm view of a smiling woman in a striped blouse on a Middletown lawn, with trees and a distant horizon behind her. — The woman faces the camera and smiles while standing or moving on the lawn.

Softly focused 8mm frame of a woman smiling toward the camera on a grassy Middletown lawn, with a tree and horizon in the background. — Woman approaches or faces the camera, smiling in an informal home-movie moment.

Close soft-focus 8mm view of the smiling woman in a striped blouse outdoors in Middletown, Pennsylvania, with lawn and sky behind her. — The woman comes close to the lens, her face filling much of the soft-focus frame.

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