Harrisburg Penn-1946: Handwritten Christmas Card And Newspaper Clipping

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationHarrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Harrisburg Penn

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Handwritten Christmas Card And Newspaper Clipping — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1946, featuring a close-up of a handwritten Christmas card with 'Merry Christmas From Peg & Jim' in elegant script. The card includes festive illustrations of holly and bells, with visible film grain and slight wear. The scene transitions to a dark frame, then to a newspaper clipping with text about a man in a tawny-colored affair and rope sandals, followed by a small photo labeled 'SWIM SUIT'. The footage captures the nostalgic texture and imperfections of mid-20th century home film.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125874859

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: 1946 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: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s editorial projects needing an intimate home-movie insert of holiday correspondence and printed ephemera from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Period detail: The handwritten Christmas greeting, decorative holly and bells, serif newspaper text, and small swimsuit clipping support a mid-1940s paper-ephemera reading.
Home-movie behavior: The camera studies personal keepsakes at close range, preserving a quiet household record rather than a staged public scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a handwritten Christmas card, festive ink drawings, dark transition frames, newspaper columns, a small swimsuit photograph, and aged paper texture.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate shadows, and slight frame instability that emphasize its original home-film source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, memory beat, holiday insert, or transition between family-history material and printed-document context.
Historical context: The frames show private paper objects and newspaper text, suggesting everyday reading and holiday exchange without identifying people or a public event.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but the newspaper excerpt and handwritten note may require copyright or source review separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Searches for 1940s 8mm Christmas card footage, Harrisburg home movie ephemera, handwritten holiday greeting, or vintage newspaper clipping may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Harrisburg 1946 footage, then related 1940s home-movie paper ephemera, cards, letters, and newspaper inserts.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close-up of a handwritten Christmas card reading Merry Christmas from Peg and Jim, with small holiday drawings visible on aged paper. — Handwritten Christmas greeting with small festive illustrations.

Dark transition frame from the 8mm reel, with only a small pale portion of the previous paper object visible at the top edge. — Brief dark transition between close-up paper views.

Close-up of a newspaper clipping with readable fragments about clothing and sandals, framed by dark 8mm gate edges. — Newspaper text seen in close-up through the film frame.

Newspaper clipping showing two columns of text and a small printed photograph captioned SWIM SUIT, seen in soft 8mm focus. — Printed clipping with a small swimsuit photograph and surrounding article text.

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