Albany New York-1955: Holiday Dining Table Set with Party Food

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

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Holiday Dining Table Set with Party Food — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Albany, New York, in 1955 captures a festive holiday dining table set for a celebration. The table is laden with classic party snacks: sliced ham on a blue plate, a platter of crackers and cheese, and bowls of coleslaw and green beans. A light brown teacup sits on a blue saucer, and silverware is neatly arranged. The tablecloth features a holiday pattern with holly, pinecones, and red ribbons, evoking a warm, nostalgic mid-century American holiday gathering. The footage shows slight camera movement, with a grainy, color-bleached look characteristic of 8mm film from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123435169

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$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful 1950s 8mm home-movie cutaway for productions needing mid-century American holiday dining, party food, or domestic celebration atmosphere.
Period detail: Visible clues include pastel dishware, neatly arranged silverware, sliced ham, crackers, cheese, serving bowls, and a printed holiday tablecloth that may show mid-century entertaining style.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged family perspective on a prepared holiday table, focusing on food and place settings rather than posed people.
What appears in frame: Across the frames are a blue plate of sliced ham, crackers and cheese, a teacup on a blue saucer, bread slices, coleslaw, green beans, silverware, and a holiday-patterned cloth.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight handheld drift, dark frame edges, and muted color that give the table scene physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a holiday meal insert, domestic transition, food cutaway, or brief memory beat within a 1950s family-gathering sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents home entertaining and holiday table presentation in Albany-area family material from the mid-1950s without showing guests or hosts.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or collection permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm holiday table footage, mid-century party food home movie, vintage Albany family celebration, and domestic food cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Albany 1956 family scenes, then broader 1950s holiday dining or home-entertaining footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Albany 1956 home-movie frame showing a holiday table with a teacup, blue saucer, silverware, crackers, cheese, and festive cloth. — Close table detail with cup, saucer, silverware, crackers, cheese, and holiday-patterned fabric.

Albany 1956 holiday table frame with a teacup on a blue saucer, silverware, crackers, cheese, and red ribbon tablecloth detail. — Cup and saucer sit near crackers, cheese, and neatly arranged silverware on the holiday table.

Albany 1956 home-movie frame showing sliced ham on a blue plate, crackers and cheese, a cup and saucer, and festive tablecloth. — Sliced ham and party snacks fill the holiday table with cup, saucer, and serving dishes nearby.

Albany 1956 holiday table frame with bread slices, sliced ham, coleslaw, green beans, crackers, cheese, and serving bowls. — The table widens to show bread, ham, coleslaw, green beans, crackers, and cheese in serving dishes.

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