New York USA-1958: People Dancing in a Home Party

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

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People Dancing in a Home Party — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a lively indoor celebration in New York. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows people in period attire—women in patterned dresses and men in dark suits—dancing and interacting in a warmly lit room. A woman in a pink patterned dress moves gracefully, her arm extended, while another person in a dark jacket appears in close-up. The handheld camera follows the action with natural motion, capturing candid moments of joy and connection. The film’s soft focus and rich film grain evoke a nostalgic, intimate atmosphere of mid-century American life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
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: 123042280

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 brief indoor party dancing, candid social interaction, or mid-century private celebration atmosphere.
Period detail: The clothing, domestic wall paneling, doorway, and color 8mm home-movie texture may show late-1950s party style in a private New York interior.
Home-movie behavior: The clip captures informal dancing and hand contact at close range, with guests reacting naturally to a handheld camera inside the room.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pink patterned dress, dark suit jacket, seated older man, doorway, interior wall, hands touching, and soft party-room lighting.
Film character: The 8mm scan has heavy grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, magenta color fading, vertical film marks, and handheld framing that signal original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, social-history insert, transition into domestic celebration, or cutaway for mid-century party life.
Historical context: The footage offers a private social view of adults dancing indoors, useful as visual context for mid-century American home gatherings without asserting a specific event.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed in addition to any copyright or source-license assessment.
Research search match: Searches such as 1950s New York home movie party, 8mm indoor dancing, mid-century house celebration, and vintage guests dancing are likely matches.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1958 New York home interiors, then broader 1950s party and dancing scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New York home-movie frame with a pink-clad guest partly blocking a seated older man near a doorway in a private room. — A guest moves through the foreground while an older man sits in the background.

Close handheld 8mm frame of party movement, with pink fabric and a dark jacket filling most of the New York interior scene. — Blurred close-up of guests moving together during the indoor party.

Smiling woman in a light pink patterned dress appears in a 1958 New York private interior, cropped by the handheld home-movie frame. — A smiling woman in a patterned dress is filmed at close range.

Hands meet near the lower edge of a 1958 New York home-party frame, with a dark jacket, pink sleeve, wall, and doorway visible. — Guests clasp hands during the indoor dancing sequence.

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