New York USA-1958: Family Eating Turkey Dinner at Dining Room Table

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

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Family Eating Turkey Dinner at Dining Room Table — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1958: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a family gathering around a dining room table laden with a Thanksgiving feast. The dimly lit scene features a red bowl of soup, a blue teacup, and a roasted turkey, with hands reaching for food and a woman eating with chopsticks. The grainy, warm-toned footage shows a woman with dark hair and glasses, and a man in a suit, all sharing a quiet, intimate meal. The film's characteristic grain and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, personal memory of mid-century American family life.

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: 123041880

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 requests needing 1950s New York home-movie footage of a private family holiday-style dinner for documentary, education, or memory-sequence use.
Period detail: The table setting, formal indoor meal, 8mm color texture, and clothing may show mid-century domestic dining customs in a private New York home.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in unstaged family behavior: hands serving food, diners eating, and a quiet handheld glimpse of people sharing a meal.
What appears in frame: Visible details include a red serving bowl, teacups, plates of food, turkey or poultry, chopsticks, eyeglasses, a wall lamp, and dim dining-room walls.
Film character: The clip has warm 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that give the scene a private home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, domestic cutaway, holiday meal transition, or reflective memory beat within a mid-century family sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a private dining-room gathering and may support broader visual context around family meals, hosting, and food rituals in the late 1950s.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness, privacy, and property considerations should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s family dinner 8mm, New York home movie meal, Thanksgiving table footage, and vintage dining-room gathering.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then other 1958 New York family interiors, then broader 1950s holiday meal or home-dining footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New York home-movie frame of a dim dining table with a red bowl, teacups, plates of food, and diners' hands reaching in. — A handheld view of the dinner table shows serving dishes, cups, plates, and hands during the meal.

1958 New York home-movie frame showing a woman with glasses eating at a dining table set with plates, cups, food, and small red candles. — A woman with glasses eats at the table while plates, cups, and food sit in front of her.

1958 New York home-movie frame of a man with glasses seated in a dim private dining-room interior near a wall lamp. — A seated man is partly lit beside a wall lamp during the indoor family meal.

1958 New York home-movie frame with a dimly lit man partly visible near a wall or corner inside the private dining-room setting. — The final frame holds on a dark interior with a partly visible seated figure near the wall.

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