New Cumberland Penn-1946: Man Cleaning His Vintage Car

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationNew Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 New Cumberland

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Man Cleaning His Vintage Car — Clip Details

A man in a dark sweater and trousers meticulously cleans a vintage car in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, in 1946. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures him wiping the hood, fender, and wheel with a cloth, his focused expression visible in the sunlight. The grainy black-and-white image, with natural shadows and film artifacts, evokes a nostalgic, personal home movie from the postwar era. This authentic archival clip shows a man taking pride in his vehicle, offering a quiet moment of domestic life and automotive care.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
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: 125876197

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: New Cumberland, 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 or documentary requests needing domestic postwar-era car care and everyday life in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.
Period detail: The rounded automobile body, dark sweater and trousers, and black-and-white 8mm look support a mid-1940s home-movie setting without visible brand identification.
Home-movie behavior: The footage captures an unstaged moment of a man leaning over his car, wiping the hood, fender, and wheel with focused attention.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man, a dark vintage car, a cloth, a front fender, a wheel, paneled garage doors, brickwork, and hard sunlight.
Film character: The clip has a grainy 8mm black-and-white texture with contrasty sunlight, slight softness, and contact-print artifacts that read as original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, domestic routine cutaway, automotive-care detail, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows private household attention to an automobile, offering social texture around ownership, maintenance, and leisure without making broader claims.
Research note: A visible adult face may require likeness review, and copyright, location, and property considerations should be assessed separately from the absence of visible logos.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 8mm home movie car cleaning, 1940s man washing automobile, New Cumberland Pennsylvania domestic footage, and vintage car care cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with New Cumberland or 1946 Pennsylvania material, and finally with domestic car-maintenance footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, a man in dark clothing leans over the front of a vintage car in 1946 home-movie footage. — A man leans over the front of a dark vintage car beside paneled garage doors.

The man stands near the car's hood and front fender, holding a cloth in the bright 1946 outdoor scene. — The man pauses beside the car's front end with a cleaning cloth in hand.

The man bends toward the wheel and lower fender of the vintage car, appearing to wipe or inspect the surface. — He bends over the front wheel area while working close to the fender.

A close view shows the man leaning across the dark fender and wheel area of the car in the 1946 home-movie sequence. — The man continues cleaning across the fender and wheel area of the car.

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