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Historic street scenes, family life, travel and everyday details captured on film. Explore individual frames, check the source footage and license the image you need for $49. Each still page lists its download size and permitted uses.

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VALLEY FORGE PARK direction sign on a wooded bank near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, circa 1962, 8mm home movie

A white VALLEY FORGE PARK sign with a left arrow stands on a brushy bank, circa 1962.

1962 · Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, United States

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Handheld 8mm view of the Valley Forge Park arrow sign on a shaded Pennsylvania hillside, circa 1962

The handheld camera drifts, placing the Valley Forge Park sign right of centre on the shaded slope.

1962 · Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, United States

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Legible VALLEY FORGE PARK sign above a dirt path through brush, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, circa 1962 home movie

The lettering and arrow read clearly as the frame settles on the sign and the path below it.

1962 · Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, United States

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Closing frame of a Valley Forge Park sign on a dim wooded bank in Pennsylvania, circa 1962, grainy 8mm colour film

The shot closes on the sign against dark green foliage, showing the grainy, low-light colour of the original 8mm film.

1962 · Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, United States

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Golfer swings his club high above his shoulder before a bunker shot, circa 1969, United States 8mm film

The golfer reaches the top of a steep backswing before striking down into the sand.

1969 · United States

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Red-and-cream gondola on the cable car up Pico Isabel de Torres, Puerto Plata, in grainy circa 1977 home movie film

Lower on the line, the red cabin passes in front of dense tropical growth on the mountainside.

1977 · Puerto Plata, Puerto Plata Province, Dominican Republic

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Two caribou walking right beneath a scarred mountain slope as the Super 8 camera pans, likely Denali National Park, circa 1980

The handheld camera pans right to follow the two caribou past the scarred slope.

1980 · Denali National Park, Alaska, United States

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Pale grizzly sow and two cubs on tundra below an eroded ochre bank, probably interior Alaska, circa 1980 Super 8

A pale grizzly sow grazes while her two cubs sit in the grass nearby, probably interior Alaska, circa 1980.

1980 · Alaska, United States

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Glacier face below a steep snow-patched mountainside in coastal Alaska, circa 1982, on blue-shifted Super 8 film

A steep mountainside streaked with snow patches rises above the ice front as the camera keeps panning.

1982 · Alaska, United States

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Ice-strewn water at the foot of a steep rocky hillside in an Alaska fjord, Super 8 film circa 1982

The camera tilts up from the ice field to a steep rocky hillside at the water's edge.

1982 · Alaska, United States

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Handheld Super 8 view of a cascade spilling into saltwater below forest, likely coastal Alaska, circa 1982

The handheld camera drifts slightly as the cascade keeps pouring into the water below the forest.

1982 · Alaska, United States

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Red-roofed public building with high dormers, likely the New York State Capitol in Albany, above trees and cars, circa 1954

A large building with steep red corner roofs and high dormers, likely the New York State Capitol, stands over 1950s traffic.

1954 · New York, United States

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Footprints cross a snowy suburban yard past a bare tree toward a neighbouring pale green house, United States, circa 1965 home movie.

The pan begins on the neighbour's house, a spruce and a trail of footprints in the snow, circa 1965.

1965 · United States

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Mid-pan view of a covered porch and stone wall with a double window on a snowy day, United States, circa 1965 home movie.

The camera moves right past the covered porch to the stone front and its double window.

1965 · United States

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Stone-front cottage with steep gable and pale green clapboard wing in fresh snow under a blue sky, United States, circa 1965 home movie.

The stone-front cottage in full view, with snow on the porch roof and shrubs along the foundation, circa 1965.

1965 · United States

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End of the pan on a stone gable front with curtained window and snow-dusted shrubs, United States, circa 1965 home movie.

The shot comes to rest on the stone gable, with strong shadows from low winter sun.

1965 · United States

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Circa 1965 8mm view of a stone-front cottage in the United States, its steep roof, porch and shrubs covered in fresh snow.

The front of the stone cottage after a snowfall, with the porch at left and shrubs along the wall, circa 1965.

1965 · United States

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Circa 1965 home movie frame in the United States as the camera reaches a detached garage beside a snowy stone cottage.

The pan reaches the detached garage, with a bare tree in the foreground and the clapboard wing behind the shrubs.

1965 · United States

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Winter view circa 1965 of a stone and clapboard cottage corner in the United States, with a garage behind a bare tree.

The held framing: stone gable, clapboard wing, garage and bare tree under an overcast winter sky.

1965 · United States

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8mm home movie still circa 1965, United States: snowy yard, stone cottage, cream garage door and a bare foreground tree.

Near the end of the shot, the garage door with its row of small windows shows clearly behind the bare tree.

1965 · United States

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Shaded tree and half-timbered red brick building at the Memorial Home Community, Penney Farms, Florida, circa 1950, on 8mm film.

The pan begins on a shaded tree and a half-timbered brick building at Penney Farms, Florida, circa 1950.

1950 · Penney Farms, Florida, United States

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Chimney and narrow brick gable beside a half-timbered wing at Penney Farms, Florida, circa 1950, as blue sky enters the frame.

The camera pans past a tall chimney to a narrow brick gable with a small oval opening.

1950 · Penney Farms, Florida, United States

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A dark 1940s sedan enters the frame beside Tudor-style brick buildings at Penney Farms, Florida, circa 1950.

A dark rounded sedan comes into view on the road beside the half-timbered buildings.

1950 · Penney Farms, Florida, United States

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Late-1940s sedan drives up the road past the Memorial Home Community buildings, Penney Farms, Florida, circa 1950, with two vehicles behind.

The pan ends on the road, where a dark sedan approaches ahead of a light-coloured car and a third vehicle.

1950 · Penney Farms, Florida, United States

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