Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: Two Red Roses Swaying in a Breeze

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

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Two Red Roses Swaying in a Breeze — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures two vibrant red roses swaying gently in a breeze amidst lush green foliage. The footage, filmed in Middletown Pennsylvania, shows natural movement as the flowers and leaves flutter, with soft focus and classic film grain adding to its nostalgic charm. The scene evokes a quiet, peaceful moment in a garden, preserved in authentic Super 8 style.

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: 123227599

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 for 1940s 8mm garden cutaways, nature inserts, or quiet domestic-life transitions in documentary and museum edits.
Period detail: The frames offer few date-specific clues beyond the 8mm home-movie look, with red roses and foliage that may show a private or residential garden setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged observation of flowers moving in wind, recorded from a close home-movie viewpoint without people or performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two red roses, glossy green leaves, thin branches, soft background foliage, wind movement, and dark contact-sheet borders.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, muted exposure, and slight handheld framing give the clip an authentic small-gauge home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a floral insert, seasonal transition, pause between family scenes, or memory beat with gentle natural motion.
Historical context: The clip reflects everyday home-movie attention to garden details rather than a public event or identifiable landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private-property details are visible, but copyright and any location/property questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1940s 8mm roses in breeze, Middletown Pennsylvania garden footage, red flowers home movie, and vintage nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel garden or family footage, then Middletown 1948 material, then broader vintage flower and home-garden scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 8mm home-movie frame from Middletown, Pennsylvania, showing red roses and green foliage in soft focus. — Red roses and leaves fill the frame in a close garden view.

Close 8mm view of red roses and leafy foliage, with the flowers shifted slightly in the breeze. — Two red roses appear against dense green foliage.

Soft 1940s garden frame showing red roses amid leaves, with slight motion blur from breeze or camera movement. — A red rose comes forward as leaves and another bloom fill the garden view.

Final 8mm frame of two red roses surrounded by green foliage, consistent with a quiet Middletown garden cutaway. — Two roses remain visible as the foliage fills the frame.

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