Hagerstown Maryland USA-1959: Couple Playing Cards in Dimly Lit Room

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationHagerstown, Maryland, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Couple Playing Cards in Dimly Lit Room — Clip Details

HAGERSTOWN MARYLAND USA-1959: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a cozy domestic scene. A woman in a vibrant pink sweater and dark pants sits in a wooden chair, her legs crossed, wearing red and black plaid socks. She watches intently as a man in a blue and white checkered shirt plays a card game at a table. The dimly lit room, with a fireplace and candlesticks in the background, evokes a warm, intimate 1950s atmosphere. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows natural grain and color shifts typical of the era, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: InteriorNight
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: 123620762

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: 1959 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: Hagerstown, Maryland, 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 domestic-life requests needing brief 8mm home-movie footage of adults playing cards in a private living room.
Period detail: The clothing, wooden chairs, small card table, candlesticks, and dim interior may show late-1950s middle-class home furnishings and leisure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged value in the quiet watching, seated posture, and hand movement around a casual card game.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adults, a card table, wooden chairs, playing cards, plaid socks, candlesticks, and a dark living-room interior.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, color shift, and handheld framing typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a domestic cutaway, family-memory insert, or quiet transition into a scene about home recreation.
Historical context: The scene documents adult leisure in a private Hagerstown home without making broader claims beyond visible indoor social activity.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1959 Hagerstown home movie, 1950s adults playing cards, 8mm living room, and vintage domestic leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Hagerstown 1959 material, then similar 1950s home interiors or card-game scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1959 Hagerstown home-movie frame, a woman in a pink sweater sits near a card table in a dim living room. — A seated woman watches from beside the card table in a dim interior.

A woman in a pink sweater sits beside a small card table as another adult's hand reaches into the frame. — A hand enters near the cards while the seated woman looks on.

The card table fills the frame as an adult's hand reaches across it, with the seated woman partly visible nearby. — The camera moves closer to the tabletop action during the card game.

A man in a blue checkered shirt leans toward the card table in this 1959 Hagerstown living-room scene. — A man leans over the table during the card game, framed by chairs and dark furnishings.

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