Catskill New York-1957: A Family Crossing The Road With Picnic Baskets

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationCatskill, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Catskill New York

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A Family Crossing The Road With Picnic Baskets — Clip Details

A family walks across a sun-drenched road in Catskill, New York, in 1957, carrying picnic baskets and coolers. Men in patterned shirts and women in summer dresses stroll past a row of classic American cars from the era. The footage, shot on 8mm film, captures the relaxed, nostalgic atmosphere of a mid-century family outing. The grainy, slightly faded color and natural motion evoke a genuine home movie feel, with the subjects moving from left to right across a grassy roadside.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 123442447

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 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1957 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: Catskill, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s family-outing requests needing a brief roadside picnic arrival or departure moment in home-movie color footage.
Period detail: The cars, summer clothing, woven picnic baskets, and metal cooler support a mid-century setting consistent with the supplied 1957 Catskill, New York metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual, unstaged movement as adults walk together across a roadside area with picnic supplies.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adults, picnic baskets, a white cooler, summer dresses, patterned shirts, parked 1950s cars, grass, road, and bright daylight.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld framing, and uneven exposure typical of family-shot reversal film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for a family picnic, road trip, summer outing, or mid-century leisure sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows everyday leisure travel and group movement near parked cars, offering visual context for family recreation in the 1950s.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no clear logos or private-property interiors are visible, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1957 Catskill New York home movie, 1950s family picnic, vintage roadside outing, 8mm summer travel, and classic cars.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel family outing footage, then other Catskill or 1957 material, then broader 1950s picnic, road-trip, and leisure clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Catskill, New York, adults in summer clothing carry picnic baskets and a cooler past parked mid-century cars in 1957 home-movie footage. — Adults with picnic supplies cross a sunny roadside beside parked cars.

Adults in summer outfits walk rightward with woven picnic baskets along a Catskill roadside, with 1950s cars parked behind them. — A small group carries picnic baskets past parked cars on a bright day.

Two men move across a grassy roadside with a white cooler, with mid-century cars parked behind them in the supplied 1957 Catskill setting. — Men carry a cooler through a grassy parking area lined with cars.

Adults carrying baskets walk near a line of parked 1950s cars, captured as casual 8mm home-movie footage in Catskill, New York. — Picnic-goers pass between the road and parked cars with baskets in hand.

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