New York USA-1958: Church Lets Out

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

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Church Lets Out — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1958: A group of women in vintage 1950s attire exit a building, likely a church, on a sunny day. The women wear colorful dresses and coats—maroon, blue, green, and light-colored suits—along with hats and glasses, reflecting the era's fashion. They walk down steps and along a porch, smiling and interacting as they leave. Shot on 8mm film, the footage features natural color, slight motion blur, and authentic grain, capturing a candid moment of community and family life from the late 1950s.

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: 123042541

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 community, church, or family-life sequences needing candid 8mm footage of adults leaving a building after a gathering.
Period detail: The clip shows mid-century dresses, coats, hats, glasses, and formal daywear that align with the provided 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged movement as women step down from a porch, smile, steady one another, and pass the camera casually.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include porch columns, exterior steps, trimmed shrubs, older women in hats, colorful dresses, light coats, glasses, and strong daylight.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft color, visible grain, handheld framing, slight motion blur, and exposure shifts typical of home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for churchgoing, neighborhood life, aging relatives, or Sunday social routines.
Historical context: The footage may show postwar community life through formal dress and social exit behavior, without identifying the building or congregation.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review is advised; no logos are apparent, and copyright clearance remains separate from personal rights.
Research search match: Natural searches include 1958 New York church home movie, women leaving church 8mm, 1950s Sunday dresses, and vintage community gathering footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel family scenes, then with New York 1958 material, and then with churchgoing or community-gathering footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New York home-movie frame of women in mid-century attire leaving a building and walking down porch steps. — Women in dresses and coats move down the steps outside a building.

1958 New York frame showing older women in hats and light coats exiting a building, with faces visible. — Older women in hats and coats descend the steps as others follow.

1958 New York home-movie frame of women in formal mid-century clothing leaving a porch and steps. — Women pause and descend near the entrance, framed by the porch and shrubs.

1958 New York frame of women leaving a building, including light coats, hats, dresses, and visible faces. — Women in formal clothing continue down the exterior steps in bright daylight.

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