Albany New York-1955: Woman Wearing Long Coat Shoveling Several Inches Of Snow

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

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Woman Wearing Long Coat Shoveling Several Inches Of Snow — Clip Details

A woman in a long dark coat and headscarf shovels snow in a residential yard during a winter day in Albany, New York, 1955. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures her steady, rhythmic motion as she clears several inches of snow from the yard. The scene is framed by bare trees and a wooden fence, with a soft, grainy texture and vintage color palette typical of mid-century home movies. The natural, unscripted action evokes a sense of everyday life and seasonal chore in the 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: 123435366

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

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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 for 1950s archival requests about winter chores, domestic life, and residential snow cleanup in Albany, New York, for documentary or education edits.
Period detail: The long dark coat, headscarf, metal snow shovel, bare trees, and soft 8mm color may show mid-century winter home-movie detail.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged moment of a woman steadily shoveling snow, with the camera observing an ordinary household task from a fixed outdoor viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a dark coat, light headscarf, snow shovel, deep snow, bare trees, shrubs, and a fence line beyond the yard.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color drift, and contact-sheet edge darkness that give the snow scene physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, winter transition, domestic-life cutaway, or memory beat within a 1950s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene shows everyday winter labor in a residential yard, with clothing and setting suggesting practical cold-weather routines rather than a staged event.
Research note: A visible adult appears in the footage, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright, with no logos or audible music indicated in the metadata.
Research search match: Searches for 1950s 8mm woman shoveling snow, Albany winter yard, vintage home movie snow chore, and mid-century residential winter footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Albany or 1956 winter footage, then broader 1950s snow and household chore scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Albany, New York home-movie footage, a woman in a dark coat and headscarf begins shoveling deep snow in a residential yard. — A woman clears snow with a shovel while standing in a snow-covered yard.

The woman continues shoveling snow in the Albany yard, with bare trees, shrubs, and a fence visible beyond the snowy ground. — The shovel moves through the snow as the woman works across the yard.

A woman in winter clothing bends over the shovel while clearing snow in a residential Albany yard captured on 8mm film. — The woman leans into the shovel while clearing several inches of snow.

The woman extends the shovel to throw snow aside, with a low snowbank, bare trees, and fence line in the background. — Snow is tossed aside as the woman continues clearing the yard.

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