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New Cumberland Penn-1946: Man Working on Car Engine in Yard

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

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Man Working on Car Engine in Yard — Clip Details

A man in a dark suit works on a classic 1940s automobile with its hood open in a suburban yard. Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures the man inspecting the engine, reaching into the bay, and then stepping away from the car. The black-and-white footage shows a quiet residential setting with bare trees and a house in the background. The grainy texture and film edges enhance its authentic archival quality.

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
125877040

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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Topics & Keywords

  • car mechanic house work engine
  • man
  • reaches
  • engine
  • bay
  • work
  • car
  • house
  • transportation
  • new cumberland penn
  • 1946
  • 1946 home movie footage
  • vintage 8mm film
  • classic car repair
  • man working on engine
  • 1940s automobile
  • suburban life 1946
  • black and white home movie
  • 8mm film grain
  • retro car maintenance
  • vintage transportation footage
  • mid-century America
  • archival 1940s footage
  • man in suit working
  • engine bay repair
  • old car maintenance
  • historical home movie
  • nostalgic 1940s clip
  • editorial vintage footage
  • 8mm home movie
  • New Cumberland Pennsylvania

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1940s home-movie requests needing a brief suburban automobile maintenance scene for documentary, museum, education, or period lifestyle edits.
Period detail
The open hood, rounded grille, headlamp shape, dark suit, bare trees, and yard setting support a mid-1940s domestic automobile scene in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania.
Home-movie behavior
The value is in the unstaged action of a man checking an engine, leaning into the bay, and walking away as the camera observes from a family-home perspective.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a man, open car hood, front grille, headlamp, engine bay, lawn, bare trees, house siding, and a narrow walkway.
Film character
Black-and-white 8mm footage shows visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate edges, and handheld framing that mark it as original physical home-movie film.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a short insert, domestic labor cutaway, transportation detail, or quiet memory beat within a 1940s family or suburban sequence.
Historical context
The clip shows ordinary household car attention in a residential yard, offering visual context for mid-century mobility and family-maintained transportation without implying a specific event.
Research note
A visible adult may require likeness review, and copyright clearance should be assessed separately from any location, vehicle, or personal-identification concerns.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1946 8mm home movie car repair, 1940s man working on automobile engine, New Cumberland Pennsylvania suburban yard, and vintage family film transportation.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other New Cumberland 1946 scenes, then related 1940s home-movie clips of cars, yards, houses, and household work.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1946 New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, a man stands near the open hood of a classic car in a suburban yard.
A man stands by the front of a car with the hood raised.
A man bends over the open engine bay of a 1940s car in a New Cumberland yard, with bare trees behind him.
The man leans forward to inspect or adjust something under the hood.
The man continues working under the raised hood of the car, framed by the lawn and leafless trees of the yard.
The raised hood frames the man as he reaches into the engine compartment.
The man walks away along a narrow walkway beside house siding, with bare trees and lawn visible beyond.
After working on the car, the man steps away along the side of the house.

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