Seaside New Jersey USA-1949: The Clam Cake Gathering

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationSeaside, New Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1949 Seaside New Jersey

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The Clam Cake Gathering — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1949 in Seaside, New Jersey, showing a close-up of a decorated cake with the inscription 'The Gathering of the Clan' in cursive script. The cake features pink and white frosting flowers with green leaves, a classic mid-century design. The image has a soft, grainy quality typical of 8mm film, with muted colors and a nostalgic, intimate atmosphere. The camera remains steady, focusing on the cake as a centerpiece for a family reunion or social gathering.

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: 120774847

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 1071 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: jody eileen,steves bar mitzvah,barkins bungalows,canada,hotel,puerto rico
Reel-level year note: 1949-1955-1957-1970
Reel-level location note: canada,st. thomas,new jersey, philadephia
Date: 1949 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: Seaside, New Jersey, 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: This 1949 8mm home-movie clip helps answer requests for mid-century family gathering, reunion, food centerpiece, or domestic celebration inserts for documentary and museum productions.
Period detail: The decorated sheet cake, cursive icing inscription, pastel frosting flowers, muted color, and 8mm texture may show late-1940s American home-event styling supported by the supplied Seaside, New Jersey metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds close on the cake as an informal record of a family or social gathering centerpiece rather than a staged commercial food shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rectangular frosted cake, cursive writing reading The Gathering of the Clan, pink icing flowers, green icing leaves, white border frosting, soft focus, and dark surrounding tabletop or background.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, low-light exposure, slight blur, and steady home-movie framing that give it useful physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, memory beat, title-adjacent insert, or transition into a family reunion, celebration, or food-focused archival sequence.
Historical context: The visible cake inscription suggests a clan or family-gathering theme, while the footage remains limited to the decorated object and does not show attendees or wider location detail.
Research note: No people, children, logos, brands, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright status and any family-event context should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1949 8mm family gathering cake, Seaside New Jersey home movie food centerpiece, vintage reunion cake footage, and mid-century decorated cake close-up.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1949 Seaside, New Jersey material, and then with broader mid-century family gathering, reunion, cake, or food-and-drink home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close-up from 1949 8mm home-movie footage in Seaside, New Jersey, showing a decorated cake inscribed The Gathering of the Clan with pink frosting flowers and green leaves. — Cake inscription and frosting flowers.

The 8mm frame holds on the decorated gathering cake, with the cursive inscription, pastel flowers, green leaves, and white frosting border visible in soft mid-century color. — Decorated gathering cake in close-up.

A close 8mm view shows the cake inscription The Gathering of the Clan, pink icing flowers, green leaves, and a white piped border, with no people visible in frame. — Script lettering on a reunion-style cake.

The final frame keeps the decorated cake centered, showing the clan-gathering inscription, floral frosting, muted color, and grainy 8mm home-movie texture. — Centered view of the decorated cake.

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