Middletown Pennsylvania-1975: Recreation Area With Roped Off Pool Or Lagoon With Benches And Trees

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationMiddletown, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1975 Middletown Pennsylvania

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Recreation Area With Roped Off Pool Or Lagoon With... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a serene recreation area in Middletown, Pennsylvania. The black-and-white footage shows a roped-off pool or lagoon surrounded by grassy lawns, trees, and benches. A stone fireplace and small evergreen trees dot the landscape, with a hill visible in the background. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing the quiet, nostalgic atmosphere of a suburban park from the mid-1970s. The grainy texture and film borders enhance its authentic, archival quality.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123228713

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: 1975 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 1970s home-movie footage of a small-town Pennsylvania recreation area, park lagoon, or public leisure landscape for documentary or educational context.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1970s park design cues, including a roped swimming area, simple benches, open lawns, young evergreens, and utility poles in the surrounding landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of a casual visitor view, slowly observing the lagoon and grounds rather than staging action for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm water area, rope floats, grassy banks, benches, trees, a fence line, a stone outdoor fireplace, and low hills beyond the park.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture, soft focus, gate edges, grain, and slight exposure variation give the short pan a physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, location cutaway, transition, or memory beat for public recreation and suburban park life.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for modest community leisure spaces, with a roped water feature and picnic-like park furnishings in a rural or suburban setting.
Research note: Rights review should consider copyright ownership plus any visible likeness or property concerns, especially because people are flagged as visible even if faces are not readable here.
Research search match: Searches such as 1970s Middletown Pennsylvania park lagoon, 8mm recreation area, roped swimming pond, benches and trees, or vintage home movie park footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1975 Middletown Pennsylvania footage, then broader 1970s park, swimming, picnic, or recreation-area material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 Middletown, Pennsylvania home-movie frame showing a roped lagoon or pool with trees, fence sections, lawn, and distant hillside. — Rope floats mark off a calm water area near trees and fencing.

A black-and-white 8mm view of the recreation area shows the roped water, grassy shoreline, scattered trees, and low hills beyond Middletown. — The camera holds on the roped water feature and surrounding park grounds.

The home-movie pan widens across the Middletown recreation area, with benches, open lawn, a roped lagoon, small evergreens, and a hill in back. — Benches and open grass frame the roped lagoon area.

A late frame shows park benches in shade, a stone outdoor fireplace, small evergreens, curved lagoon edge, and open hillside in the background. — Park benches and a stone fireplace sit near the curved lagoon edge.

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