New York USA-1958: Women Sharing Communal Dinner At Table With Food And Drink

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

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Women Sharing Communal Dinner At Table With Food And Drink — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1958 captures a warm, intimate communal dinner in New York. The grainy, color-saturated footage shows a table laden with dishes, including a red bowl of soup and a yellow teapot, as women in period attire—some wearing glasses and patterned blouses—eat and converse. The dim lighting and close-up shots create a nostalgic, personal atmosphere, evoking mid-century family gatherings and shared meals.

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: 123041875

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-movie requests needing an intimate domestic dinner or women's shared meal for documentary, museum, education, or period-memory use.
Period detail: The patterned blouses, eyeglasses, ceramic teapot, tableware, and saturated 8mm color may show mid-century domestic dining customs.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the close, unstaged table perspective as women eat, talk, and handle cups and plates during a private meal.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include women seated at a crowded table, plates of food, a red serving bowl, blue teacups, a yellow teapot, utensils, and patterned clothing.
Film character: The clip has handheld 8mm texture with visible grain, uneven exposure, soft focus, and warm color shifts that support an archival home-movie feel.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a domestic-life insert, family-memory beat, meal cutaway, or transition into a broader 1950s social setting.
Historical context: The footage documents a private communal meal and suggests everyday mid-century hospitality without identifying the participants or occasion.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed in addition to separate copyright assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 New York 8mm home movie dinner, women eating at table, mid-century family meal, and vintage domestic food footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with New York 1958 home interiors, and then with related 1950s dining or family-gathering footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New York home-movie frame showing a woman eating at a crowded dinner table with dishes, cups, and tableware. — A woman eats at a packed table with cups, plates, and shared food.

1958 New York dinner footage with women seated close together at a table, one holding food and another partly visible in glasses. — Women sit closely around the dinner table during the meal.

1958 New York home-movie still of an older woman at the dinner table with a yellow teapot, cups, and plates nearby. — An older woman sits at the table near a yellow teapot and teacups.

1958 New York dinner table detail with a red serving bowl, blue cups, yellow teapot, plates, and women seated at the edges. — The tabletop shows shared dishes, cups, a red bowl, and a yellow teapot.

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