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New Cumberland Penn-1946: Misty Hills And A Man In A Striped Shirt

  • Year1946
  • Decade1940s
  • LocationNew Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1946 New Cumberland
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Misty Hills And A Man In A Striped Shirt — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a misty, atmospheric view of rolling hills and dense forest from an elevated vantage point. The grainy black-and-white footage shows a circular structure, possibly a water tower or reservoir, nestled among the trees. The scene transitions to a close-up of a man in a striped shirt, appearing contemplative as he holds a handkerchief to his face. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, film grain, and dark borders, evoking a sense of quiet nostalgia and personal memory from post-war America.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details
Black & white
Resolution
4K Digitally Restored
License
Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
5s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
125875830

Rights & Clearance

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

  • 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 record not linked for this clip
Date
1946 Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location
New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence
Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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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Topics & Keywords

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  • black and white archival footage
  • misty hills landscape
  • post-war America
  • Super 8 home movie
  • 1940s family footage
  • nostalgic countryside
  • old film grain
  • man with handkerchief
  • 1946 Pennsylvania
  • retro documentary clip
  • vintage film footage
  • historical home movie
  • classic 8mm
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  • rural landscape
  • 1940s nostalgia
  • black and white film
  • vintage memory footage

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
1946 8mm home-movie footage suited for documentary uses needing a quiet postwar Pennsylvania landscape insert or memory transition.
Period detail
The frames show soft black-and-white 8mm views of wooded hills and a distant built structure, with no precise landmark identifiable from the stills.
Home-movie behavior
The viewpoint feels like an unstaged visitor or family observation from an elevated overlook, lingering on misty terrain rather than a formal subject.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include rolling wooded hills, pale overcast sky, a distant circular structure, dark frame edges, soft vegetation, and film gate borders.
Film character
The footage carries dense grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and dark 8mm frame edges that give the scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a landscape cutaway, atmospheric transition, establishing insert, or reflective memory beat before or after family footage.
Historical context
As 1940s home-movie material from New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, it shows a personal view of local terrain without confirming a specific site or event.
Research note
People are flagged elsewhere in the clip, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are visible here, and copyright and location rights should be checked separately.
Research search match
Useful search phrases include 1946 Pennsylvania 8mm hills, New Cumberland home movie landscape, misty wooded hills, and black-and-white family film cutaway.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 New Cumberland material, then broader home-movie landscapes and reflective postwar cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 8mm home-movie frame from New Cumberland showing misty wooded hills and a distant built structure through soft focus.
Misty wooded hills with a distant structure below the overlook.
Black-and-white 8mm view over New Cumberland hills, with a small distant structure partly obscured by trees and film-edge shadows.
A distant structure sits low in the wooded landscape.
Soft 1946 8mm landscape frame showing layered Pennsylvania hills and dark foreground vegetation beneath a pale sky.
Layered hills recede into haze beneath a pale sky.
New Cumberland 8mm home-movie frame showing a dark wooded foreground and sloping hills fading into a pale overcast sky.
A sloping wooded hillside fills the final landscape frame.

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