New Cumberland Penn-1946: Man Shakes Out Hand Towel, Wipes Hands, and Walks

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

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Man Shakes Out Hand Towel, Wipes Hands, and Walks — Clip Details

A man in a dark sweater and trousers stands in front of a paneled garage door in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, 1946. Shot on 8mm film, the grainy black-and-white footage captures him shaking out a hand towel, wiping his hands, and then walking forward. The vintage home movie style, with natural lighting and slight camera movement, evokes a candid moment from mid-20th century American life.

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: 125876216

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 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 American home-movie requests needing a brief everyday exterior moment of a man drying his hands outside a garage.
Period detail: The clothing, paneled garage door, black-and-white 8mm look, and 1946 New Cumberland metadata support a mid-1940s domestic setting.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears relaxed and unposed as he shakes out a towel, wipes his hands, and moves toward the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an adult man, dark sweater, trousers, hand towel, paneled garage door, window panes, strong sunlight, and soft frame edges.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, high-contrast daylight exposure, slight softness, and handheld home-movie framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short domestic insert, transitional beat, or character cutaway within a 1940s family-life sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers a small view of routine domestic activity in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, without showing a public event or identifiable landmark.
Research note: A visible adult face and likely residential exterior call for likeness and property review, separate from any copyright or source licensing checks.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1946 8mm home movie, New Cumberland Pennsylvania man outside garage, towel wiping hands, and 1940s domestic footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other New Cumberland 1946 clips, then broader 1940s home-life and exterior household activity footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1946 New Cumberland home-movie footage, an adult man is partly cropped while standing by a paneled garage door. — The man stands partly out of frame beside the garage door.

An adult man in a dark sweater stands outside a garage door in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, in 1946 footage. — The man faces the camera near the garage door.

The man handles a small towel outside the paneled garage door in this 1946 New Cumberland home movie. — The man works a small towel in his hands.

A close, slightly soft 8mm frame shows the man facing the camera outside a garage door in 1946 New Cumberland footage. — The man comes close to the camera at the end of the clip.

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