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New York-1947: Military Women Measure Distance In A Drill Line Early In The

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  • Year1947
  • Decade1940s
  • LocationNew York, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1947 New York

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Military Women Measure Distance In A Drill Line Early In The — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1947: A line of women in dark uniforms and hats perform a synchronized drill on a paved lot in front of a large institutional building. Their arms extend outward in unison, then lower as they stand at attention, showcasing disciplined military-style training. Shot on 8mm film, the footage displays characteristic grain, color fading, and a slightly soft focus, capturing a moment of organized activity during the early post-war era. The scene evokes a sense of order and purpose, likely from a women's service organization or training program.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution
4K restored master (MP4)
License
Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
124758369

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

  • 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
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Date
1947 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence
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Location
New York, 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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Topics & Keywords

  • human
  • service
  • dawn
  • alignment
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  • early
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  • education
  • new york
  • 1947
  • 1947 women's military training
  • vintage 8mm film
  • 1940s women in uniform
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  • women's service organization
  • 1940s home movie
  • New York 1947
  • wartime women's groups
  • archival 8mm footage
  • retro military training
  • women's corps
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  • 1940s American history
  • vintage home movie
  • 8mm film grain
  • historical footage
  • women's training program
  • 1940s Americana
  • old film footage
  • 1947 archival clip

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1940s New York editorial sequences needing women's uniformed drill, postwar training, or organized service activity on 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail
The dark skirted uniforms, brimmed hats, paved lot, and large institutional building may show mid-1940s military-style or service-organization training.
Home-movie behavior
The camera observes from a fixed home-movie distance as the women space themselves, extend arms, and settle into attention without staged close-ups.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a line of uniformed women, outstretched arms, dark hats, a paved open area, a large building, a fence, and a parked car.
Film character
The 8mm scan has soft focus, modest grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that preserves the physical-film character.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a short insert or cutaway for disciplined training, women's service, institutional routines, or postwar civic order.
Historical context
The footage visually reflects women participating in organized uniformed drill during the early postwar period, without identifying the group or building.
Research note
People are visible and the uniforms may imply military or service affiliation, so likeness, institutional identity, and context should be reviewed separately from copyright.
Research search match
Search matches include 1940s New York women's drill footage, 8mm uniformed women training, postwar service organization line drill, and home movie military-style exercise.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with New York 1947 material, and then with related women's service, drill, or institutional training footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1947 New York footage, uniformed women extend their arms in a spacing drill before a large institutional building.
Women in dark uniforms hold their arms outward during a line drill.
Uniformed women in New York, 1947, hold a synchronized spacing posture in front of a large building and fence.
The drill line remains extended as the group keeps measured spacing.
The women transition from arm spacing to attention, with a parked car and institutional building visible behind them.
The formation shifts toward attention after the spacing movement.
At the end of the 1947 New York clip, the uniformed women stand aligned on the paved lot near a building and parked car.
The group holds a still line at attention after the drill motion.

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