New York-1948: Video Of A Garden And The Front Of A Garage

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

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Video Of A Garden And The Front Of A Garage — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1948, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban scene in New York. The footage begins with a close-up of a house's exterior, showing a window and wooden siding, then pans to reveal a garage door opening into a dimly lit interior with tools and a large container. The camera moves to a view of the front yard, featuring a white fence, a lawn, and a small evergreen tree, all bathed in the warm, faded tones of mid-century film. The grainy texture and soft focus evoke a strong sense of nostalgia and everyday life in the late 1940s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124876659

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 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 requests needing a quiet suburban exterior, garage, lawn, and garden cutaway for documentary or educational editing.
Period detail: The wooden siding, simple garage opening, small lawn, shrubs, and domestic yard may show mid-century suburban residential surroundings consistent with the 1948 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged household viewpoint, lingering briefly on ordinary exterior details rather than presenting a planned architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a house window, wood siding, open garage, dark interior storage, lawn, shrubs, walkway, and a small evergreen tree.
Film character: Soft focus, warm faded color, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld instability give the 8mm scan a tactile home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a residential establishing insert, memory transition, or quiet cutaway between family-life scenes from the same era.
Historical context: The clip documents everyday domestic space and yard care in a New York home-movie context without identifiable people, signage, or public landmarks visible.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the visible residence and garage area should still be reviewed for property and copyright context.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1948 New York 8mm home movie, suburban garage exterior, vintage front yard, mid-century house siding, and domestic garden footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1948 New York residential scenes, then broader home-movie clips of gardens, yards, and garages.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York home-movie frame showing a wood-sided house exterior, window, and partial garage opening in soft 8mm color. — House siding, window, and garage edge in a quiet residential exterior.

Open residential garage in New York, 1948, with dim storage space, equipment, and large containers visible from outside. — Open garage doorway with stored household or yard items inside.

Residential front yard in 1948 New York with lawn, shrubs, a small white fence, and house exterior visible in faded 8mm color. — Front lawn and shrubs beside a modest residential exterior.

Soft 8mm view of a New York residential lawn, curved walkway, shrubs, and garage-side exterior, dated by metadata to 1948. — Curved walkway and lawn beside shrubs and the house exterior.

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