New York-1948: Man Bends Down in Yard Then White House With Screen Door

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 New York

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Man Bends Down in Yard Then White House With Screen Door — Clip Details

A man in patterned swim trunks bends down in a sunlit yard, smiling at the camera in this 1948 8mm home movie. The scene shifts to a white clapboard house with a dark screen door and window, capturing a quiet suburban moment. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and authentic 1940s home movie quality, evoking nostalgia for mid-century American life.

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: 124876535

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: Reel 2269 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: wedding,decoration day,wj nolan jr
Reel-level year note: 1948
Reel-level location note: geneva new york
Date: 1948 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 1940s New York home-movie projects needing a brief domestic yard and clapboard-house cutaway.
Period detail: The patterned swim trunks, simple clapboard siding, dark screen door, and soft 8mm color may show a late-1940s suburban or small-town setting.
Home-movie behavior: A man bends close to the camera and smiles, giving the clip an informal family-filmed quality before the view settles on the house exterior.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a smiling man in swim trunks, sunlit grass, white clapboard siding, a dark screen door, a tall window, porch trim, and strong film-edge borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has heavy exposure shifts, soft focus, visible grain, faded color, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short memory beat, exterior transition, or domestic-life insert within a mid-century family or neighborhood sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents ordinary private-life surroundings rather than a public event, with attention on leisure, yard space, and a modest house exterior.
Research note: A visible adult face and house exterior may require likeness or property review depending on use; copyright status is separate from these concerns.
Research search match: Searches such as 1948 New York 8mm home movie, man in yard, white clapboard house, screen door, and mid-century family footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other New York 1948 home movies, then related mid-century yard and house exterior footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1948 New York home-movie footage, a smiling man bends in a sunlit yard, partly washed out by exposure. — A man bends toward the camera in a bright yard, with the home-movie exposure nearly bleaching the scene.

The camera frames a white clapboard house in New York, with a dark screen door and adjacent window visible in soft 8mm color. — A white clapboard exterior fills the frame, centered on a dark screen door beside a tall window.

A closer 1948 New York view shows clapboard siding and a dark screen door, with soft focus and faded home-movie color. — The handheld camera moves closer to the house, holding on the siding and dark screen door.

The final frame is a blurred, pale view of the house exterior, with siding and a vertical doorway or wall edge barely defined. — The clip ends on a soft, washed-out view of the clapboard exterior as the camera drifts.

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