New York USA-1958: Two Middle Aged Ladies Wearing Glasses In The Kitchen Smiling

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

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Two Middle Aged Ladies Wearing Glasses In The Kitchen... — Clip Details

Two middle-aged women in a 1958 New York kitchen share a warm, smiling conversation. One woman, wearing glasses and a blue patterned dress with a white collar, stands near a wall-mounted rack of metal spatulas and kitchen tools. The other, with reddish hair, wears a floral-patterned top. The scene, shot on 8mm film, captures intimate domestic life with soft lighting and authentic period details. The women’s expressions convey genuine connection and joy, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American home 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: 123042340

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports 1950s New York domestic-life requests for documentary inserts, education edits, or period home-interior cutaways.
Period detail: The kitchen utensil rack, tiled wall, eyeglasses, dresses, and soft 8mm color may show late-1950s middle-class home details.
Home-movie behavior: Two women appear relaxed and smiling in a kitchen doorway, with the camera observing informal conversation rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two women with glasses, a doorway, white wall tiles, hanging metal utensils, patterned clothing, and a dark interior hall.
Film character: The clip has handheld 8mm texture with visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight motion blur typical of scanned home movies.
Edit role: Use as a brief domestic insert, memory beat, conversational cutaway, or transition into mid-century kitchen and family-life material.
Historical context: The footage gives a private-interior view of women socializing in a home kitchen, reflecting everyday domestic space without broader event context.
Research note: Faces and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property considerations remain separate from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1958 New York home movie kitchen, middle-aged women smiling, 8mm domestic interior, and mid-century family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel interiors, then other 1958 New York home scenes, then broader mid-century kitchen and family conversation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1958 New York home kitchen, a woman in glasses and a blue patterned dress smiles beside a doorway. — Smiling woman in glasses stands near a kitchen doorway during an informal indoor moment.

In a 1958 New York kitchen doorway, a woman with glasses smiles while other adults are partly visible nearby. — A woman smiles in the doorway while the home-movie camera catches nearby figures in motion.

A woman with glasses looks toward another adult in a 1958 New York kitchen doorway, with soft 8mm blur. — Two women share a casual kitchen-doorway exchange, one facing the camera and one seen from behind.

A 1958 New York kitchen wall shows hanging utensils and tiles, with a smiling woman partly visible at frame edge. — Hanging kitchen tools and tiled wall frame a partial view of a smiling woman in glasses.

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