Dallas Texas USA-1956: Very Nice Lady Dancing And Smiling To The Jazz

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

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Very Nice Lady Dancing And Smiling To The Jazz — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Dallas, Texas, 1956, captures a woman dancing in a dimly lit room with green walls. The grainy, low-light footage shows her in a dark dress with a white collar, her back to the camera as she moves rhythmically. The scene has a nostalgic, intimate feel, with a brief glimpse of another person in the foreground. The film's characteristic grain and color shift from dark to greenish hues reflect the era's home movie aesthetic.

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: 120786199

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: 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1956 Dallas 8mm home-movie clip helps document mid-century private social dancing for documentary, museum, education, or period memory sequences.
Period detail: The dark dress with a light collar, low interior lighting, green-painted walls, and small-room setting may show a casual 1950s home gathering rather than a public venue.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in an unstaged domestic moment, with a woman moving and smiling informally while the camera follows from close range.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dancing woman, green interior walls, a bright ceiling light, dark shadowed foreground areas, a doorway or wall edge, and another partially seen person or silhouette near the frame edge.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, soft focus, low-light exposure, color shift toward green and blue, and handheld framing that gives it a tactile home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, party cutaway, or intimate memory beat for mid-century family and social-life sequences.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for informal entertainment inside a private Dallas interior in the 1950s, without identifying the people or occasion shown.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property considerations may require review even though no logos, minors, or audible music are indicated.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s Dallas home movie, 8mm woman dancing indoors, vintage family party footage, and mid-century social dancing cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Dallas 1956 home-movie interiors, then broader 1950s dancing, party, and family gathering scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Low-light 1956 Dallas home-movie frame showing a dark green interior wall, shadowed foreground, and indistinct movement at the edge of the room. — Shadowed start of an indoor dancing scene.

A woman in a dark dress with a light collar raises her arms while dancing in a dim Dallas interior recorded on 8mm film in 1956. — Woman dancing with arms raised.

Profile view of the dancer near the wall.

The final frame is largely underexposed, with only a faint green wall area and film grain visible in the private interior. — Dark closing frame of the interior scene.

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