Hagerstown Maryland USA-1961: People Walking Through A Field Far Away From The

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationHagerstown, Maryland, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Hagerstown Maryland

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People Walking Through A Field Far Away From The — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a grassy field bordered by dense green bushes under natural daylight. A small, dark, indistinct figure moves slowly across the middle ground, appearing to walk through the field. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and soft focus, with a dark vignette framing the edges. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment of rural life, with no clear faces or identifiable clothing, emphasizing the atmosphere of a forgotten summer day in Hagerstown, Maryland.

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: 123749180

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: 1961 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

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: 1960s rural Maryland home-movie field footage for documentary cutaways, quiet transitions, or archival atmosphere around everyday countryside life.
Period detail: The metadata places the clip in Hagerstown, Maryland in 1961, while the frames show only a grassy field and dense bushes without dateable clothing, vehicles, signs, or landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a distant home-movie vantage as a small indistinct dark form appears to move slowly near the brush line.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include sunlit grass, dense green shrubs, a small dark indistinct figure or shape, soft background foliage, frame borders, and film grain.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight flicker, and dark edge vignetting that reflect scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet rural insert, memory beat, transition, or environmental cutaway between more identifiable Hagerstown or 1960s family footage.
Historical context: The scene records an ordinary outdoor field edge rather than a public landmark, offering social context for casual home-movie observation of rural or suburban open space.
Research note: No faces, logos, brands, or clear private property are visible, but copyright, location, and any likeness or property questions should still be reviewed against source records.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1961 8mm Maryland field, Hagerstown home movie countryside, vintage rural bushes and grass, and distant figure in field archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Hagerstown material, then broader 1960s rural field or home-movie landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Hagerstown home-movie frame showing sunlit grass, dense green bushes, and a distant indistinct dark form near the field edge. — A distant dark form sits or moves near the brush line beyond a grassy field.

1961 Hagerstown frame with soft-focus grass, thick shrubs, and a small distant dark form near the lower edge of the bushes. — The camera holds on the field as the distant dark form remains near the shrubs.

1961 Hagerstown home-movie view of a grassy field, dense foliage, and a faint indistinct dark shape near the bushes. — A faint dark shape appears near the brush line in the soft, grainy field view.

1961 Hagerstown frame showing a grainy grassy field and dense shrubs, with any figure or object too indistinct to identify. — The field and shrub line fill the frame, with no identifiable subject visible.

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