Harrisburg Penn-1946: A Few Friends Playing Croquet With Style In A Nice Backyard

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

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A Few Friends Playing Croquet With Style In A Nice Backyard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a group of men playing croquet in a suburban backyard. Dressed in light-colored shirts and trousers typical of the post-war era, they take turns bending to aim their mallets at the wickets. The setting features a brick house with white-trimmed windows and a grassy lawn, with one man observing while others focus on the game. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and natural daylight, offering an authentic slice of mid-century American leisure. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 125875044

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

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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 American home-movie requests needing a brief backyard leisure scene with adults playing croquet for documentary, museum, education, or period lifestyle edits.
Period detail: The light shirts, belted trousers, croquet mallets, brick house, and trimmed residential lawn may show mid-1940s suburban leisure consistent with the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual, unstaged rhythm of adults taking turns, watching, and bending over shots during an informal backyard game.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adult men, croquet mallets, a small lawn, wickets or game pieces, a brick house with white-trimmed windows, shrubs, a tree, and strong daylight shadows.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, mild exposure variation, and slight motion blur that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, domestic-life cutaway, leisure transition, or memory beat within a postwar American family or neighborhood sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for adult social recreation in a residential yard without making claims about the identities, relationships, or occasion behind the gathering.
Research note: People and a residence are visible, so likeness and property context may require review separate from copyright or physical-film ownership status.
Research search match: Researcher searches might include 1940s Harrisburg home movie croquet, vintage 8mm backyard game, postwar American leisure footage, and men playing croquet on lawn.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Harrisburg or 1946 home movies, then broader 1940s backyard recreation and family leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Harrisburg home-movie frame showing men in light clothing playing croquet on a residential lawn. — A player bends toward the lawn while another man stands behind during a backyard croquet game.

A man leans over a croquet shot while another watches near a brick house in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1946. — One man lines up a croquet play as another stands near the house watching.

Home-movie frame from the 1946 Harrisburg croquet scene, with men spaced across a residential backyard. — A standing player waits on the lawn as another figure appears near the garden edge.

Three adult men stand around the croquet area in a 1946 Harrisburg backyard home-movie scene. — Players gather near the garden bed between croquet turns in the backyard.

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