Des Moines Iowa USA-1959: Woman Sewing Indoors in Des Moines

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationDes Moines, Iowa, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Iowa

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Woman Sewing Indoors in Des Moines — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from 1959 in Des Moines, Iowa, showing a grown Caucasian woman in a white shirt engaged in a tailoring task indoors. She is seen in profile, focused on her work, with a colorful, patterned curtain featuring abstract figures in red, blue, and green visible behind her. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and slight motion blur, capturing a quiet, domestic moment of concentration and craftsmanship in a mid-century American home.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
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: 120808029

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 1319 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: iowa
Date: 1959 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: Des Moines, Iowa, 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 1959 Des Moines 8mm home-movie clip can support archival requests for mid-century American domestic labor, sewing, tailoring, or quiet indoor household activity.
Period detail: The white shirt, short dark hairstyle, patterned curtains, and soft color 8mm interior photography may show a late-1950s home setting consistent with the supplied Des Moines metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears absorbed in a close domestic task, giving the footage unstaged value as a private household moment rather than a posed portrait.
What appears in frame: Across the frames, a woman in profile, a white shirt, short dark hair, patterned curtains, a green interior wall, and a bright window edge are visible.
Film character: The clip has a soft 8mm film texture with visible grain, muted color, slight blur, and close handheld framing typical of scanned home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or domestic-work insert within a sequence about home life, sewing, family routines, or mid-century interiors.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for household work and interior decor in an American home, while the exact task details beyond tailoring or sewing-related activity are not fully visible in the frames.
Research note: A visible adult face/profile and private interior are present, so likeness, privacy, and property considerations should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1950s 8mm home movie sewing indoors, Des Moines Iowa domestic work, woman tailoring at home, and mid-century home interior curtains.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1959 Des Moines domestic interiors, and then with broader home-movie clips of sewing, tailoring, or household work.

Still Frames From This Clip

Woman in profile beside patterned curtains.

Woman focused on an indoor task.

A close 8mm frame shows the woman looking down as if concentrating on a task, with patterned curtains and a bright window edge behind her. — Woman looking down at her work.

The final frame keeps the woman in close side view as she looks downward near colorful curtains, preserving a quiet domestic moment from the 1959 Des Moines home movie. — Close side view during a domestic task.

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