Phoenix Arizona USA-1956: Child Clapping Hands at Birthday Party

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationPhoenix, Arizona, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 Phoenix Arizona

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Child Clapping Hands at Birthday Party — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Phoenix, Arizona, 1956, capturing a young child in a joyful moment. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus evoke authentic mid-century nostalgia. A child in a light-colored shirt claps hands, their face partially visible with a subtle smile, suggesting a birthday celebration. The dimly lit indoor setting and natural film imperfections, including dust and scratches, highlight the authentic archival quality of this classic home movie.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120782210

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1956 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: Phoenix, Arizona, 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

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 brief 1950s Phoenix home-movie clip can serve requests for mid-century domestic celebration footage, especially intimate family-party inserts or memory sequences.
Period detail: The soft color 8mm look, light indoor clothing, and home-interior setting may show a mid-1950s family birthday environment, though the visible frames do not contain date-specific objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged close-up moment of a young person or child near party decorations, with handheld framing emphasizing informal family observation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale foreground shapes, dark green foliage or decorations, a partial hand or arm, soft indoor shadows, film dust, and a horizontal scan or splice-like band across the contact sheet.
Film character: The footage has faded color, soft focus, heavy exposure variation, visible grain, dust specks, and handheld 8mm framing that mark it as scanned physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a very short domestic-memory cutaway, party atmosphere insert, or transitional flash of mid-century family celebration.
Historical context: The scene suggests private family celebration culture in a postwar American home, but the frames do not independently confirm the birthday details beyond the supplied metadata.
Research note: People and a private interior are indicated, so copyright, likeness, and property considerations should be reviewed separately before commercial or public-facing use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s Phoenix home movie birthday party, vintage 8mm child clapping, mid-century family celebration footage, and faded color home-movie interior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Phoenix or 1956 family interiors, and then with broader birthday, childhood, and home-celebration material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Faded 8mm frame from the supplied 1956 Phoenix home-movie clip showing a soft, overexposed close-up with a pale hand or arm near dark green foliage or decoration. — Soft close-up near foliage or decoration.

Soft, faded color 8mm frame from the supplied Phoenix home-movie clip with an indistinct pale foreground shape against dark green interior decoration or foliage. — Blurred close-up against a dark green background.

Faded 8mm home-movie frame showing a pale, soft-focus close-up shape beside dark foliage or decoration, with visible dust and exposure variation. — Soft-focus pale foreground near dark foliage.

Soft, overexposed frame from the supplied 1956 Phoenix home movie showing a pale close-up form, dark green leaves, and a curved dark edge at the lower right. — Overexposed close-up with leaves at the edge.

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