Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: A Row Of Trees With Brown Building And Dirt Road

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

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A Row Of Trees With Brown Building And Dirt Road — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a hazy, sun-drenched view of a rural landscape in Middletown, Pennsylvania. The footage shows a row of bare trees in the foreground, with a brown building and dirt road visible beyond. The image is grainy and slightly blurred, with a distinct purple color cast and film scratches, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The camera appears to pan slowly across the scene, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a quiet, sunlit day in the countryside.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123226971

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: 1948 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Middletown, Pennsylvania, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful 1940s 8mm rural Pennsylvania landscape footage for documentary cutaways, seasonal atmosphere, or place-setting archive sequences.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century rural roadside or field edge, with bare trees, open ground, and a low building visible through heavy haze.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a home-movie camera observing a quiet outdoor view rather than a composed scenic postcard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include bare trees, snowy or pale ground, distant hills, a low brown building, a dirt or rural road, and soft winter light.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries strong grain, soft focus, purple color shift, gate edges, scratches, and uneven exposure that signal original physical film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, memory transition, seasonal cutaway, or quiet visual bridge between family or place-based scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests everyday rural or small-town surroundings near Middletown, Pennsylvania, without enough visual evidence to identify a specific property or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property-use questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1940s 8mm rural Pennsylvania landscape, Middletown Pennsylvania trees, winter roadside, or vintage home movie countryside.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Middletown or Pennsylvania material from the same year, then with rural trees, roads, and winter landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1940s 8mm home-movie frame from Middletown, Pennsylvania, showing bare trees and pale rural ground through a hazy scan. — Bare trees and pale ground appear in a soft, purple-tinted rural view.

Middletown, Pennsylvania home-movie frame showing bare trees, pale ground, and distant countryside in soft 1940s 8mm color. — A line of bare trees stands beside pale ground in the rural distance.

Soft 8mm frame from Middletown, Pennsylvania, with pale ground, trees, a low dark structure, and distant hills. — A low structure and trees sit beyond a pale rural foreground.

1940s 8mm home-movie frame near Middletown, Pennsylvania, showing bare trees, pale ground, and a distant brown building. — A brown building is faintly visible behind bare trees and pale ground.

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