New York USA-1958: Family Dinner at Home

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Family Dinner at Home — Clip Details

A grainy 8mm home movie from 1958 captures a dimly lit family dinner in New York. A man in a striped shirt and tie sits at a table, while a woman in a patterned dress serves food from a red bowl. The scene is intimate and nostalgic, with vintage tableware and a textured wall in the background, evoking a warm, personal holiday memory.

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: 123041856

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 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1958 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: 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 1950s New York home-life requests needing real 8mm footage of an indoor family dinner or holiday meal.
Period detail: The tableware, patterned dress, shirt and tie, and dim interior may show late-1950s domestic style in a private home.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged family interaction, with adults eating and serving food at close range in a lived-in interior.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include seated adults, a dining table, red serving bowl, plates, cups, textured wall, upholstered chair, and dark film borders.
Film character: Grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and visible frame edges give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a memory beat, domestic-life insert, holiday dinner cutaway, or transition into family-history material.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for mid-century private dining rituals without making claims beyond a family meal in a New York home.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so copyright, likeness, and property considerations should be reviewed separately before reuse.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm family dinner, New York home movie, vintage tableware, holiday meal, and mid-century domestic footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with New York 1958 home interiors, then with broader family dinner or holiday home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New York home-movie frame showing a man in a shirt and tie seated near a table against a textured wall. — A seated man appears at the dinner table in a dim private interior.

1958 New York home interior with a seated man at dinner, red bowl and tableware visible in soft 8mm focus. — The dinner table comes into view with serving bowls and cups in front of the seated man.

1958 New York home-movie frame showing a woman at a dinner table with plates, bowls, and serving dishes. — A woman serves or handles food at the table among plates, bowls, and tableware.

1958 New York home interior showing a woman seated at dinner with a bowl, tableware, and food on the table. — A seated woman looks down toward a bowl as food and tableware fill the foreground.

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