Albany New York-1955: White Woman With Short Brown Hair Sitting In A Blue Dress

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only. $149 flat from Stockfilm for documentary, news and educational use, plus internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationAlbany, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Before you add to cart: 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. Checkout will only offer editorial, educational, internal and social/web scopes.

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

White Woman With Short Brown Hair Sitting In A Blue Dress — Clip Details

ALBANY NEW YORK-1955: A woman with short brown hair sits in a blue patterned dress, her face illuminated by the glow of a cigarette she holds. The scene is dark, with out-of-focus lights suggesting a nighttime setting, possibly inside a car or at a drive-in. The footage, shot on 8mm film, captures a candid moment of quiet contemplation. The clip transitions to a festive indoor scene with a brightly lit Christmas tree adorned with colorful ornaments and tinsel, while the woman remains seated in the background, creating a nostalgic contrast between a solitary moment and holiday celebration.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
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: 123433193

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1956 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Albany, New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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.

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s home-movie requests needing a quiet nighttime portrait of an adult woman, with holiday-party context from the same short clip.
Period detail: The blue dress, cigarette gesture, low available light and 8mm color stock support a mid-1950s domestic or social setting, with Albany and 1956 supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears unposed as she sits in darkness and handles a cigarette, giving the clip the candid intimacy of a family or social gathering filmed nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an adult woman, blue patterned dress, dark surroundings, cigarette or small object near her mouth, soft colored lights, car-like shadows and grainy 8mm exposure.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, warm highlights, dark underexposed areas and handheld framing that preserve the feel of an original home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an intimate insert, memory beat, nighttime cutaway or transition into the later Christmas-tree interior described in the clip metadata.
Historical context: The scene may show a mid-century adult social moment where smoking, evening leisure and holiday gathering imagery appear within a private home-movie record.
Research note: Faces and private-property context are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed separately from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm woman smoking, Albany New York home movie, blue dress nighttime portrait, holiday party cutaway and mid-century candid footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Albany 1956 material, then 1950s holiday, party, nighttime and domestic home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In metadata-supported Albany, 1956, an adult woman in a blue patterned dress sits in low light with small out-of-focus lights nearby. — A woman sits in darkness, her blue dress and face catching the available light.

In the Albany 1956 home-movie scene, the seated woman lifts a cigarette or small object toward her mouth under low light. — The seated woman raises a small object toward her mouth in the dark scene.

The 1956 Albany home-movie frame shows the seated woman turned sideways, holding a small glass or object in the dim light. — The woman turns sideways while holding a small object in the low-lit setting.

In this metadata-supported Albany 1956 frame, the woman remains seated in a blue dress, partly lit against a dark background with distant lights. — The woman remains seated, partly illuminated against a dark nighttime background.

Visually Similar Clips