New York USA-1959: Family Enjoying A Meal Sitting Around Dinner Table And

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

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Family Enjoying A Meal Sitting Around Dinner Table And — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1959 captures a family gathering around a dinner table in New York. A woman in a dark dress smiles warmly, while a man in an orange sweater and another in a suit eat and converse. The scene is intimate and dimly lit, with a record player visible in the background, evoking mid-century domestic life. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows natural movement and laughter, preserving a nostalgic moment of family connection.

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: 123044475

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: This 1959 New York 8mm clip helps support archival requests for mid-century American family dining, private interiors, and intimate domestic-life inserts.
Period detail: Visible period clues include formal tableware, adult dress, dim indoor lighting, and a record player-like object that may show a mid-century home setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged interaction: adults eating, smiling, and conversing around a dinner table as the camera observes from close range.
What appears in frame: The frames show adults at a dinner table with plates, bowls, utensils, serving dishes, a dark private room, and a record player-like object in the background.
Film character: The clip has the texture of scanned 8mm home-movie film, with soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, color fading, and dark frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, domestic cutaway, or transition into family, food, or mid-century home-life material.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for an adult family meal in a private New York home, without supporting broader claims about the people or occasion.
Research note: Faces and a private interior are visible, so copyright, likeness, privacy, and property questions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search phrasing includes 1959 New York 8mm family dinner, mid-century home movie meal, adults eating at table, and domestic interior footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with New York 1959 home-movie material, then with broader family meal or domestic gathering footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 New York 8mm frame showing adults gathered around a dinner table in a dim private interior, with a woman smiling near the camera. — Adults sit close together at a dinner table, with plates, utensils, and a dark interior visible behind them.

1959 New York home-movie frame of adults eating at a dinner table, with bowls, plates, and a record player-like object in the background. — A woman and two men sit at the table while eating, partly obscured by dark film edges.

1959 New York 8mm frame showing adults seated around a dinner table in a private room, with serving dishes and tableware in view. — The table setting fills the foreground as adults continue eating in a dimly lit interior.

Mostly dark 8mm frame from the 1959 New York family dinner clip, with the dining scene no longer clearly visible. — A mostly black frame appears at the end of the contact sheet, with minimal visible scene detail.

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