Philadelphia Pennsylvania-1962: Panning To The Right Over A Concrete Platform With Benjamin Franklin Plaque

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Philadelphia Pennsylvania

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Panning To The Right Over A Concrete Platform With... — Clip Details

PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA-1962: Panning across a concrete platform bordered by a black wrought-iron gate and a brick wall, this 8mm home movie captures a quiet urban scene. The camera movement reveals a dark plaque mounted on the brick, inscribed with a poem about Benjamin Franklin. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic period detail for historical documentaries, editorial content, or vintage-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127708945

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 1619 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: philadelphia,penn
Date: 1962 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 1960s Philadelphia archival requests needing a quiet civic-site cutaway with a Benjamin Franklin memorial plaque and surrounding street-level detail.
Period detail: The brickwork, iron railing, concrete platform, and filmed plaque may show mid-century visitor footage of a historic Philadelphia marker in 1962.
Home-movie behavior: The short rightward pan has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering first on the platform and railing before settling on the Franklin-related plaque.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a concrete platform, black iron gate, brick wall, dark plaque, white inscription, film-edge shadowing, and slight handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, warm color shifts, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet edge shadows that signal physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, establishing cutaway, location transition, or reflective memory beat tied to Franklin or historic Philadelphia.
Historical context: The clip visually connects a public-looking brick-and-iron setting with a plaque honoring Benjamin Franklin as a printer, without confirming the exact site from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but plaque text, site permissions, property issues, and underlying copyright should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 Philadelphia 8mm footage, Benjamin Franklin plaque, historic marker, iron gate, brick wall, and home-movie civic landmark cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1962 Philadelphia material, then Franklin, historic-marker, brick-wall, or public-site cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 Philadelphia home-movie frame showing a concrete platform bordered by a black iron gate and brickwork. — The pan begins on a concrete platform and iron railing, with brickwork visible at the left edge.

1962 Philadelphia frame with a concrete platform, iron gate, and heavy dark vertical edge shadows from the film or contact sheet. — The rightward pan continues across the platform and railing, with dark vertical borders intruding on the view.

A dark Benjamin Franklin-related plaque on a brick wall appears in the 1962 Philadelphia home-movie pan. — The camera reaches a dark plaque on the brick wall, with inscription text partly legible.

The pan settles on a dark plaque about Benjamin Franklin, mounted on brick below a black iron railing in Philadelphia. — The final frame centers the Franklin-related plaque against the brick wall beneath the iron railing.

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