New Cumberland Penn-1946: Military Couple Embracing on House Steps

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

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Military Couple Embracing on House Steps — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1946 captures a military man in uniform sharing an intimate kiss and smiling with his wife in front of a brick house. The grainy black-and-white footage shows them standing on the steps, their faces close in a tender moment. The man wears a formal military jacket with insignia, while the woman is dressed in a dark coat with a fur collar. The scene exudes warmth and nostalgia, with the couple's joyful expressions and the classic mid-century setting creating a timeless, personal memory.

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: 125876805

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: This 1946 8mm home-movie clip supports archival requests for postwar-era domestic life, military family reunion imagery, and intimate couple moments for documentary or museum use.
Period detail: The uniform jacket with insignia, fur-collared coat, monochrome film, and brick residential steps point to a mid-1940s home setting in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, as supplied by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The couple appears relaxed and aware of the camera, sharing a kiss and then smiling in the informal manner of a family-filmed home movie.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man in military uniform, a woman in a dark coat with a fur collar, brick exterior walls, house steps or entry details, close-up faces, and soft shadows across the frame.
Film character: The clip has a grainy black-and-white 8mm texture with soft focus, uneven exposure, slight blur, and visible frame divisions that reinforce its home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, relationship insert, military-family cutaway, or transition into a personal postwar domestic story.
Historical context: The footage visually connects military service with private family life, showing a uniformed man and his wife outside a brick residence without making a broader claim about the event being filmed.
Research note: People and military uniform details are visible, so likeness and context review may be needed in addition to standard copyright assessment, while no logos, minors, or audible music are indicated.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1940s military husband and wife home movie, New Cumberland Pennsylvania 8mm family footage, soldier kissing wife outside house, and black-and-white postwar couple on brick steps.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1946 New Cumberland or Pennsylvania home-movie material, and then with broader themes of military families, homecomings, couples, and mid-century domestic life.

Still Frames From This Clip

Soft-focus black-and-white 8mm frame showing shadowed exterior surfaces near the brick house setting in the New Cumberland, Pennsylvania clip. — Shadowed exterior detail before the couple appears.

In the 1946 New Cumberland home-movie frame, a man in military uniform kisses a woman in a dark coat with a fur collar beside a brick house exterior. — Uniformed man kisses woman outside the brick house.

A smiling uniformed man and woman stand close together in front of a brick house wall in this 1946 New Cumberland home-movie frame. — The couple smiles toward the camera.

Close black-and-white frame of the smiling uniformed man in front of the brick house background, with the woman partly visible at the side. — Close-up of the uniformed man smiling.

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