New York-1948: An Empty Yard Then A Man Walking Down A Walk Touching His Shirt

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

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An Empty Yard Then A Man Walking Down A Walk Touching... — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1948: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a man in a dark shirt and trousers walking along a suburban sidewalk. He carries a white object and gestures toward his chest while walking past a wooden fence. The scene unfolds in front of a single-story house with a driveway and classic 1940s automobiles parked nearby. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight color fading, and the characteristic soft focus of 8mm home movie film, evoking a nostalgic, everyday moment from mid-century America.

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: 124876667

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 1940s New York home-movie footage for everyday suburban street, yard, and adult pedestrian inserts in documentary or period-memory edits.
Period detail: Visible clues may show a mid-century residential block, including single-story houses, a sidewalk, a low fence, and rounded 1940s-era parked cars.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged moment of an adult man walking toward the camera, carrying a light object and touching or adjusting his shirt.
What appears in frame: The frames show a lawn, sidewalk, fence, single-story house, driveway or garage area, parked cars, and an adult man in dark clothing.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, light color fading, visible grain, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that suit home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, neighborhood transition, or memory beat for mid-century domestic life and informal pedestrian movement.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for postwar residential streetscape and family-film observation without identifying the man or household.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and contextual use should be reviewed separately from copyright and collection licensing.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 New York 8mm home movie, man walking on sidewalk, suburban house and fence, and mid-century parked cars.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other New York 1948 residential scenes, then broader 1940s home-movie street footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York home-movie frame showing an empty yard, sidewalk, house exterior, and fence before the man enters view. — Empty residential yard and sidewalk at the start of the shot.

Adult man in dark shirt and trousers walks toward the camera on a New York residential sidewalk with parked cars behind him. — Man walking along the sidewalk in front of houses and parked cars.

The man continues toward the camera, holding a light object and passing a low fence on a residential New York sidewalk. — Man approaching while carrying a light-colored object beside the fence.

The man faces the camera and touches or adjusts his shirt, with a fence, house, and parked car in the residential background. — Man gestures toward his shirt near the fence at the end of the clip.

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