Hagerstown Maryland Usaa-1963: Men In Dress Clothes Play Tennis In Park

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationHagerstown, Maryland, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Hagerstown Maryland

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Men In Dress Clothes Play Tennis In Park — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a man in a white dress shirt and tie playing a casual game of tennis in a suburban park. He swings a wooden paddle, hitting a ball across a grassy area bordered by a paved path and dense evergreen trees. The footage shows natural motion blur and the characteristic grain of Super 8 film, with a brief glimpse of a classic American car in the background. The scene evokes a nostalgic, everyday moment of recreation from the early 1960s.

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: 123682383

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: 1963 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 1960s documentary or education edits needing casual suburban recreation, informal sports, or everyday leisure footage from Hagerstown, Maryland.
Period detail: The dress shirt, tie, paved park road, wooden paddle, and classic car in the background support an early-1960s home-movie setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged moment of men casually playing a ball game outdoors while dressed more formally than modern recreational wear.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include men in dress clothes, a small ball, a wooden paddle, a paved park path, mown grass, evergreen trees, and a classic car.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, handheld framing, motion blur, uneven exposure, and visible grain that give the footage its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or transition for mid-century leisure, parks, amateur sports, or family-reel sequences.
Historical context: The scene suggests everyday postwar suburban leisure, with adults using open park space for informal recreation rather than organized competition.
Research note: People are visible, so copyright, likeness, and any location identification questions should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Search phrases include 1963 8mm Hagerstown park recreation, men playing paddle ball in dress clothes, and vintage home movie casual sports.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Hagerstown or 1963 Maryland park footage, then broader 1960s home-movie recreation scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Hagerstown, Maryland, a man in a white shirt and tie stands near a park path during a casual 1963 outdoor game. — A dressed man waits near a paved path in a tree-lined park.

A man in dark clothing holds a paddle on a Hagerstown park path, with a classic car and trees visible behind him. — A player with a paddle stands across the path near a parked car.

Motion blur shows the white-shirted player moving across a grassy Hagerstown park scene beside the paved path. — The white-shirted player moves quickly through the handheld frame.

The frame drifts across the Hagerstown park landscape, showing grass, a paved path, and dense trees in soft 8mm blur. — The camera swings across the park landscape after the action.

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