Rockaway Beach New York USA-1967: Man Laughing While Holding Candle at Family Party

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Year1967
Decade1960s
LocationRockaway Beach, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1967 Rockaway Beach New York

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Man Laughing While Holding Candle at Family Party — Clip Details

A man in a dark suit and tie laughs heartily while holding a red candlestick in a vintage 1967 home movie from Rockaway Beach, New York. The scene unfolds in a warmly lit kitchen with wooden cabinets and floral arrangements, viewed through a doorway. In the foreground, guests including a woman in a pink dress and glasses are seated at a table, suggesting a festive family gathering. The footage exhibits classic 8mm film grain, color shifts, and soft focus, capturing a candid moment of joy and nostalgia from a mid-century American celebration.

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: 121304513

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 2234 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: chris piraino,
Reel-level year note: 1967
Reel-level location note: lynbrook new york
Date: 1967 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: Rockaway Beach, New York, 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: Useful for 1960s U.S. home-movie requests needing a candid family party interior in Rockaway Beach, New York.
Period detail: The suit, narrow tie, glasses, wood kitchen cabinets, red candlestick and floral table decorations support a mid-1960s domestic setting.
Home-movie behavior: An adult man laughs while holding a candlestick as seated guests talk below him, giving the clip unstaged family-gathering value.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a laughing suited man, red candlestick, kitchen cabinets, flowers, seated women, dining chairs, bottles and glassware.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, color shifts, dark frame edges and handheld reframing typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: This works as a short insert, memory beat or transition for a documentary sequence about family celebrations or domestic social life.
Historical context: The scene shows a private indoor gathering where adults appear to be seated around a table while a man performs or jokes from the kitchen area.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so copyright status should be assessed separately from likeness and property permissions.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1967 Rockaway Beach home movie, 1960s family party, man laughing with candle, and vintage kitchen gathering.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1967 Rockaway Beach footage, then broader 1960s family party interiors.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1967 Rockaway Beach home movie, a suited man laughs while holding a red candlestick behind flowers in a kitchen. — A suited man laughs with a red candlestick near flowers and kitchen cabinets.

A 1967 Rockaway Beach party scene shows a suited man with a red candle in the kitchen and seated guests below the doorway. — Guests sit at a table while a suited man stands behind them holding a candle.

In the 1967 Rockaway Beach interior, two women sit at a table while a suited man stands in the kitchen background. — Two women sit at the table as the man remains visible in the kitchen doorway.

A 1967 Rockaway Beach home-movie frame shows two seated women at a party table with the suited man and flowers behind them. — Women converse at the table while the suited man stands farther back in the kitchen.

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