Detroit Michigan-1948: Typed Wedding Title Card Naming a Couple and a Lutheran Church

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationDetroit, Michigan, United States
Duration2s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 · Detroit, Michigan, United States
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What is in this clip

wedding
home-made film titles
typewritten text
family record keeping
church community
amateur filmmaking
postwar America

Shot type: detail
Camera: static
Setting: indoor · Typed paper title card filmed in close-up on a flat surface
Time and weather: unknown
Lighting: Uneven artificial light on the card, brighter toward the lower right
People: 0 · No people are visible; only typed text on a card.
Objects: typed paper title card · typewriter lettering
Readable signs: INE BUDDENBAUM · and · RT HOOPER · at · EDALE PARK · V. LUTHERAN CHURCH
Colors: grey · grey-brown · black
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: High

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The typed card is on screen from the first frame, with the two surnames and the church name readable.
The frame weaves slightly sideways while the lettering stays soft but legible.
The picture rides up a little and the top of a typed date line appears at the bottom edge.

Typed Wedding Title Card Naming a Couple and a Lutheran... — Clip Details

Detroit, Michigan, circa 1948 home movie footage of a home-typed title card that opens a wedding reel. The typewritten capitals are cropped at the left edge and read '...INE BUDDENBAUM and ...RT HOOPER at ...EDALE PARK ...V. LUTHERAN CHURCH', with the top of a date line just entering at the bottom of the frame. The card is filmed in tight close-up on 8mm and held for two seconds, with slight gate weave, soft focus and dust specks over grey paper.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 2s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000288

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People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1948 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: Detroit, Michigan, 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: Answers requests for an authentic 1940s home-movie title card to open a postwar wedding sequence or to illustrate how amateur filmmakers titled their reels.
Period detail: Typewriter capitals on plain paper, filmed as a home-made title, and the abbreviation 'Ev. Lutheran Church' are consistent with a 1940s American family reel.
Home-movie behavior: The filmmaker typed a card with the couple's names and the church and filmed it close up, a careful amateur touch that frames the reel as a family record.
What appears in frame: A grey paper card, cropped typewritten capitals giving two surnames, the words 'and' and 'at', a church name, dust specks, and the top of a date line at the bottom edge.
Film character: Soft close focus, bleeding ink edges, mottled grey-brown paper tone, dust, fine scratches and gentle gate weave give it the texture of projected 8mm.
Edit role: Works as an opening title insert or a short text cutaway that anchors following wedding footage to a named church.
Historical context: The card names Rosedale Park Evangelical Lutheran Church in Detroit, a stone church dedicated in November 1942, which places the wedding reel in the following decade.
Research note: No faces appear, but the card shows the surnames of private individuals and a named church; copyright in the film is separate from any privacy or naming considerations.
Research search match: Typed wedding title card 8mm, 1940s home movie intertitle, Detroit Lutheran church wedding film, typewritten text on old film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the church doorway, arriving guests and bridal party shots from the same reel, then with other 1940s Detroit footage or other home-made title cards.

Still Frames From This Clip

Home-typed 8mm wedding title card, Detroit, Michigan, circa 1948, naming two surnames and Rosedale Park Ev. Lutheran Church, left edge cropped. — The typed title card that opens the wedding reel, its left edge cut off by the frame.
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Typewritten card from a circa 1948 Detroit wedding home movie, the frame shifted so the words LUTHERAN CHURCH sit clear of the right edge. — Gate weave moves the card sideways; the church line stays readable.
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Soft-focus 8mm frame of a wedding title card filmed in Detroit, circa 1948, with film dust and scratches over typed names and a church name. — Soft close focus and film dust over the typed names and church.
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Final frame of a circa 1948 Detroit wedding title card on 8mm, the picture riding up so the top of a typed date line shows at the bottom edge. — The picture rides up at the end and a typed date line starts to enter at the bottom.
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