New Cumberland Penn-1946: Couple Opening Car Door

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

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Couple Opening Car Door — Clip Details

A man in a suit and fedora opens the door of a vintage 1940s automobile in a quiet residential neighborhood. A woman in period attire approaches the car, interacting with the man as they prepare to depart. The footage, shot on 8mm film, captures the everyday life of a couple in post-war America, with classic automobiles parked along tree-lined streets. The grainy black-and-white image and subtle camera shake evoke a nostalgic, authentic home movie feel from the 1940s.

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: 125876680

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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s documentary, museum, or editorial sequences needing a brief everyday departure scene with adults and a parked automobile in a Pennsylvania residential setting.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-1940s dress, including a man's suit and fedora, a woman's coat or dark outfit, and rounded prewar or immediate postwar automobile styling.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged action of adults approaching and opening a car door on a neighborhood street, filmed from a casual home-movie distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a suited man, a woman near a car door, parked 1940s automobiles, bare trees, sidewalks, houses, and soft residential street detail.
Film character: The 8mm black-and-white scan has pronounced grain, soft focus, slight handheld instability, and uneven exposure that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, transition, or memory beat for postwar domestic routines, neighborhood life, or automobile-centered everyday travel.
Historical context: The clip visually situates adult mobility and street life in a quiet New Cumberland neighborhood without making claims beyond the visible home-movie scene.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are legible, and copyright, privacy, and property questions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1940s Pennsylvania home movie, New Cumberland street scene, couple opening car door, vintage automobile departure, and 8mm neighborhood footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1946 New Cumberland material, then broader 1940s home-movie scenes of cars, couples, and residential streets.

Still Frames From This Clip

In New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, a man in a suit and fedora stands by a parked car on a quiet 1946 residential street. — A suited man stands beside a parked automobile as the home-movie camera looks across the street.

A woman in dark period clothing stands at an open automobile door on a 1946 New Cumberland residential street. — A woman appears by the open door of a parked car, with other automobiles lining the street behind her.

The camera catches motion blur as a woman moves beside the open car door during the New Cumberland street scene. — Motion blur emphasizes the home-movie capture as the woman moves near the open automobile door.

A woman walks away along a residential sidewalk in New Cumberland, with parked 1940s cars and a tree in the foreground. — The scene closes with the woman walking along the sidewalk past a tree and parked automobiles.

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