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Around 3,900 wedding clips, and the 1960s hold more than half of them. A wedding was worth a whole roll of film, so even camera-shy families brought one out for it.
The footage favors the day's set pieces: the church steps, the receiving line, confetti and rice, the car pulling away. More of it is international than most of the archive, with a real run of English weddings alongside the American ones, almost all on 8mm and 16mm.
3,887 archival clips matching “Weddings & Ceremonies” — page 42 of 65
Wedding reels work for romance and nostalgia spots, family-history documentaries, and period scenes that need a real ceremony of the era rather than a restaged one. The church-steps exit and the first-dance footage get pulled most.
The 1940s and 50s weddings are formal and posed, the camera kept at a respectful distance. The 1960s, the peak, get closer and warmer in color. The 1970s bring the era's own style: wide lapels, long veils, receptions that ran later.
