New York USA-1959: Middle Aged Man Wearing A Top Hat Walking Through A Doorway

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Middle Aged Man Wearing A Top Hat Walking Through A Doorway — Clip Details

NEW YORK USA-1959: A middle-aged man in a dark suit, white shirt, and tie walks through an arched doorway, wearing a distinctive gray and black fedora and glasses. The 8mm film captures the grainy, slightly overexposed quality of a home movie, with warm red walls and a vintage ambiance. The man moves from shadow into light, his expression neutral, before the scene cuts to a bouquet of white flowers in a purple vase, suggesting a personal, nostalgic moment from a 1950s home recording.

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: 123044114

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 1101 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: north pole,game farm,amusement park, reel 2
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1959 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 a dressed adult man entering an interior doorway and a brief domestic cutaway.
Period detail: The dark suit, narrow tie, brimmed hat, arched doorway, red wall, and purple flower vase support a late-1950s domestic or social-occasion setting.
Home-movie behavior: The man moves casually from shadow into light as if filmed by someone nearby, with the final flower shot adding an unstaged home-recording detail.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an arched doorway, red interior wall, suited man, brimmed hat, glasses, wall fixture, dark couch or bed, and white flowers in a purple vase.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, warm color shift, gate edges, and handheld framing that mark it as physical home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief arrival insert, interior transition, personal-memory beat, or cutaway within a 1950s family or social sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually reflects mid-century formal dress and private interior filming without establishing a specific event beyond the supplied New York 1959 metadata.
Research note: Faces and private interior property are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed in addition to any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1959 New York 8mm home movie, suited man entering doorway, mid-century interior, brimmed hat, or domestic flowers cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other New York 1959 interiors, then broader 1950s family gathering or formal-dress home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1959 New York home-movie footage, a suited man in a dark brimmed hat appears in shadow inside an arched doorway. — A suited man stands partly in shadow at an arched doorway.

The man, wearing glasses, a suit, tie, and dark brimmed hat, faces the camera in a red-walled New York interior. — The man steps into clearer light beside the doorway.

A close, slightly overexposed view shows the suited man in a gray-and-dark brimmed hat passing near the camera. — The man passes close to the lens, filling the left side of the frame.

A domestic cutaway shows white flowers in a purple vase near dark furniture inside the same warm red-walled interior. — White flowers in a purple vase sit beside dark furniture.

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