Dallas Texas USA-1956: Family Party With Singing

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationDallas, Texas, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 Dallas Texas

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Family Party With Singing — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Dallas, Texas, 1956, capturing a lively family party. The clip opens with guests in period attire dancing in a dimly lit room with greenish-blue ambient lighting, their movements blurred by motion and film grain. The scene transitions to a stage performance where two women sing into a vintage microphone against a textured gold curtain, their expressions animated and joyful. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: high grain, color shifts, and soft focus, evoking authentic mid-century nostalgia. This archival material is ideal for documentaries, retro-themed projects, and historical storytelling.

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: 120785341

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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

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: Dallas, Texas, 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 1950s Dallas 8mm home-movie clip helps answer requests for mid-century family celebration, dancing, and amateur party performance footage for documentary or editorial use.
Period detail: The visible period clues include formal party clothing, dark dresses, short-sleeved blouses, a chrome-style microphone, and a small indoor stage or performance area that may show a mid-1950s social gathering.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged home-movie behavior, with guests dancing close together and women performing or singing before a small audience in a private social setting.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dancing adults, dim green-blue room light, blurred movement, a textured gold curtain, two women singing, a vintage microphone, dark formal clothing, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The footage has a strong physical 8mm character, with heavy grain, soft focus, color shift, underexposed shadows, and motion blur from handheld filming in low interior light.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, party insert, music-performance cutaway, or transition between broader scenes about family gatherings and mid-century social life.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for a domestic or community celebration in Dallas in 1956, showing adults socializing through dancing and informal live singing without identifying the occasion from the frames alone.
Research note: People and likely identifiable faces are visible, audible music is flagged, and use should be reviewed for likeness, music, and location-context issues separately from any film copyright assessment.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1950s Dallas home movie party, 8mm family singing performance, mid-century adults dancing indoors, vintage microphone singer home footage, and 1956 Texas celebration film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other Dallas or 1956 family-gathering footage, and finally thematically related clips of mid-century parties, dancing, singing, or amateur performances.

Still Frames From This Clip

Adults appear to dance at a 1956 Dallas family party, filmed in low green-blue interior light with soft focus and visible film grain. — Guests dance in dim interior light.

Guests at the Dallas party move through a dim interior space, with a woman in a light blouse and patterned skirt visible near the right side of the frame. — Guests move through the party room.

Several adults appear as soft silhouettes while dancing or gathering in the dimly lit 1956 Dallas party room. — Silhouetted guests gather and dance.

Two women sing or perform beside a vintage microphone against a textured gold curtain during the 1956 Dallas family party. — Women perform beside a microphone.

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