Saint Louis Missouri USA-1965: Black And White Vaudeville Dancing Man In Tuxedo

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Year1965
Decade1960s
LocationSaint Louis, Missouri, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1965 Saint Louis Missouri

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Black And White Vaudeville Dancing Man In Tuxedo — Clip Details

Black and white vintage 8mm footage from 1965 in Saint Louis, Missouri, showing a man in a tuxedo performing on stage. The grainy, low-light clip captures the performer with a cane, dancing between two vintage microphones under dim stage lighting. The image quality reflects classic home movie film with visible grain and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic vaudeville or nightclub revue atmosphere. The man moves rhythmically, suggesting a tap dance or comedic routine, with the dark backdrop emphasizing the spotlighted performance. This archival 8mm footage offers authentic retro charm for historical or nostalgic projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121296803

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 1026 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1965
Reel-level location note: saint louis
Date: 1965 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: Saint Louis, Missouri, 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: Suits documentary or archival projects exploring mid-century American entertainment, vaudeville revival, or 1960s nightclub revue culture with authentic period footage.
Period detail: Vintage bullet-style microphones on stands, formal tuxedo attire, and near-silhouette stage lighting with 8mm grain suggest a mid-1960s American revue or supper-club performance.
Home-movie behavior: Shot from an audience or observer vantage at moderate distance, the footage preserves an unscripted record of a live stage act in an informal, non-broadcast context.
What appears in frame: Four frames show a man in dark formal attire, two vintage microphone stands, a dimly spotlit dark stage, heavy film grain, soft focus, and a uniformly dark backdrop.
Film character: Heavily underexposed black-and-white 8mm stock yields dense grain, soft focus, and near-silhouette rendering — period texture consistent with low-light amateur filming of a stage act.
Edit role: Works best as a brief memory-beat insert or nostalgic cutaway in a mid-century entertainment segment; the underexposure reinforces a sense of atmospheric, faded recollection.
Historical context: Formal tuxedo attire and vintage stand microphones are consistent with 1960s supper-club or variety-revue staging; no venue signage is visible to independently confirm the Saint Louis location.
Research note: An identifiable performer appears on screen; likeness rights cannot be assessed from footage alone. Audible music, if present, may require synchronization clearance. Rights research advised.
Research search match: Researchers may search: 1960s stage performance, black-and-white vaudeville performer, vintage nightclub act, 8mm revue film, mid-century American entertainment, tuxedo stage act.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same 1965 Saint Louis reel; then with mid-1960s Missouri performance footage; then with other 8mm-format stage acts or vaudeville-era entertainment material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Black-and-white 8mm frame from a 1965 Saint Louis stage performance; a formally dressed man stands near a vintage microphone stand under dim stage lighting. — Performer at stage left with vintage microphone stand, c. 1965.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from an apparent 1965 stage performance; formally dressed performer near a vintage microphone stand against a uniformly dark backdrop. — Tuxedo-clad performer mid-act near microphone stand, c. 1965.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from a 1965 Saint Louis stage act; performer at lower-left with a vintage microphone stand and illuminated capsule tip in the foreground. — Stage performer with vintage microphone stand in foreground, c. 1965.

Black-and-white 8mm frame from a 1965 stage performance; two vintage microphone stands visible with a performer largely obscured by heavy underexposure. — Two vintage microphone stands with obscured performer, heavily underexposed, c. 1965.

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