Hagerstown Maryland USA-1958: Slow Sliding Visual Of A Decorated Tree Prepped

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationHagerstown, Maryland, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Slow Sliding Visual Of A Decorated Tree Prepped — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a slow sliding visual of a decorated Christmas tree in Hagerstown, Maryland. The tree is adorned with colorful lights and tinsel, glowing softly in a dimly lit room. The grainy, nostalgic quality of the Super 8 footage highlights the era's holiday decor, with a white door and curtain visible in the background. The camera glides gently across the tree, emphasizing the festive atmosphere of a mid-century American home during the holiday season.

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: 123606354

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 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: Hagerstown, Maryland, 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 1950s American holiday home-life requests needing a brief archival Christmas tree insert or domestic seasonal cutaway.
Period detail: The tinsel-heavy tree, colored bulbs, curtained door and dim interior may show mid-century holiday decorating taste in a Hagerstown home.
Home-movie behavior: The slow sliding camera movement treats the decorated tree as the subject, preserving an unstaged family record of holiday preparation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a Christmas tree, silver tinsel, colored lights, ornaments, a white door, curtain, wall and dark room edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, dark edge falloff and slight exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a holiday memory beat, domestic transition, seasonal insert or quiet cutaway within a mid-century sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents Christmas decor inside a private American home, with attention on the tree rather than people or public events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos or audible music are indicated, but copyright and private-interior context should still be reviewed for use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm Christmas tree home movie, Hagerstown Maryland holiday interior, and vintage tinsel tree footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel holiday interiors, then Hagerstown or 1958 home movies, then broader Christmas decor and family-seasonal footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Hagerstown home-movie frame showing a tinsel-covered Christmas tree near a white door in a dim interior. — A decorated Christmas tree stands beside a curtained white door in a dim room.

Close 1958 8mm view of a tinsel-covered Christmas tree with colored lights in a Hagerstown interior. — The camera moves closer across the tree's tinsel, lights and ornaments.

1958 home-movie frame of the lower decorated Christmas tree, with tinsel and colored lights filling the view. — Silver tinsel and colored bulbs fill the lower part of the Christmas tree.

Final 1958 Hagerstown frame showing the decorated tree sliding past a white door and curtain in the background. — The sliding view ends with the lit, tinsel-covered tree against the doorway.

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