Catskill New York USA-1959: Bespectacled Young Man In Striped Pajamas Opening Christmas Gift

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationCatskill, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Catskill New York

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Bespectacled Young Man In Striped Pajamas Opening... — Clip Details

A bespectacled young man in striped pajamas opens a Christmas gift in a cozy 1959 home. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures his focused expression as he unwraps a red and white box, revealing a small present. The warm, grainy image shows a vintage television and framed photos in the background, evoking mid-century Americana. This authentic home movie moment reflects holiday nostalgia and personal memory from the late 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: 123618242

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 1101 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: north pole,game farm,amusement park, reel 2
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1959 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing late-1950s American home-movie Christmas interiors, gift opening, and intimate family holiday atmosphere for documentary or museum edits.
Period detail: The striped pajama shirt, framed family photographs, upholstered chair, and vintage television may show a mid-century domestic setting consistent with the 1959 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The man quietly unwraps and examines a present, giving the clip an unstaged family-memory quality centered on a private holiday moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bespectacled young man, striped pajamas, wrapping paper, a red-and-white gift box, framed photos, a chair, a wristwatch, and a television.
Film character: The 8mm footage has warm color, soft focus, visible grain, and slight handheld framing that give the scene a personal home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a Christmas morning insert, a family memory beat, or a cutaway for mid-century domestic life and gift exchange.
Historical context: The scene reflects a private indoor holiday gathering and the everyday domestic objects of a late-1950s American household, based on visible details and metadata.
Research note: A recognizable adult face and private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed separate from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm Christmas home movie, man opening gift, Catskill New York family interior, striped pajamas, and vintage television.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Christmas scenes, then Catskill 1959 home interiors, then broader 1950s holiday gift-opening footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a Catskill, New York home-movie frame from 1959, a bespectacled young man in striped pajamas opens patterned wrapping paper beside a chair. — A young man unwraps a holiday gift in a mid-century home interior.

The 1959 Catskill home-movie frame shows the man lifting a red-and-white gift box while holding loosened wrapping paper. — The opened package reveals a red-and-white box as he looks down.

A bespectacled man in striped pajamas holds the opened gift box in a private Catskill interior, with framed photos and furniture behind him. — He pauses with the opened box in hand after removing the wrapping.

The man turns toward someone off camera and raises the opened box, with a vintage television and framed photographs visible in the home interior. — He shows the opened gift box toward someone outside the frame.

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