Ontario Canada-1958: A Couple Dancing Together At A Home Party

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationOntario, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Ontario Canada

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A Couple Dancing Together At A Home Party — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Ontario Canada in 1958 captures a joyful couple dancing together at a home party. The woman wears a red patterned dress with a pearl necklace, while the man is in a blue and white plaid shirt. They laugh and move rhythmically in a warmly lit room with wood-paneled walls and patterned curtains. Other guests, including a woman in a black and white striped top, watch and smile, creating an intimate, nostalgic atmosphere of mid-century domestic celebration. The footage shows natural film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of Super 8 home movies.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
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: 123612037

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: 1958 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: Ontario, Canada 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 Canadian home-life requests needing real domestic party footage, couples dancing, and informal adult socializing for documentary, museum, or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The wood-paneled room, patterned curtains, pearl necklace, red dress, and plaid shirt may show mid-century home-party styling consistent with the 1958 Ontario metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged laughter, close dancing, seated guests, and casual attention among adults at a private gathering.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dancing couple, seated women, a smiling man, wood paneling, reddish curtains, a couch or bench, and warm indoor lighting.
Film character: The 8mm image has warm color, visible grain, soft focus, slight motion blur, and handheld framing that give it authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, party cutaway, transition into family celebration material, or insert for mid-century leisure and domestic intimacy.
Historical context: The clip documents a private social moment in Ontario, Canada, showing adults gathered indoors for music and dancing without broader public-event context.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property permissions may require review separate from copyright or physical-film ownership.
Research search match: Researchers may find this through searches for 1958 Ontario 8mm home movie party, mid-century couple dancing indoors, or Canadian family gathering footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Ontario 1958 home interiors, and then broader 1950s party, dance, and family celebration footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1958 Ontario home-movie footage, a woman in a red patterned dress smiles while dancing closely with a man in a plaid shirt. — A laughing couple dances in a warmly lit room during a home party.

The dancing couple turns toward the camera in a 1958 Ontario home interior, with patterned curtains behind them. — The man smiles broadly as he and his partner continue dancing.

A seated guest watches the couple dance in a wood-paneled Ontario home-party room from 1958. — A woman seated at the side watches the dancers move past her.

Seated guests look on from a wood-paneled room as the couple dances at the edge of this 1958 Ontario home-movie frame. — Guests watch from the side as the dancers move partly out of frame.

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