Camden New Jersey USA-1964: Vintage 8mm Footage of a Formal Dance Party

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationCamden, New Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Camden New Jersey

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Vintage 8mm Footage of a Formal Dance Party — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Camden, New Jersey, 1964, captures a formal dance event. A couple in elegant attire—a man in a white tuxedo with a black bow tie and a woman in a light-colored gown—dance closely under dim, atmospheric lighting. The grainy, low-light footage shows other guests in formal wear, including a woman in a patterned dress, moving across the dance floor. The scene exudes a nostalgic, intimate mood, characteristic of mid-century American social gatherings.

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: 123988694

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 2368 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: xmas,nancy,dell ee davis
Reel-level year note: 1964
Reel-level location note: woddbury new jersey
Date: 1964 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: Camden, New Jersey, 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 archive requests needing 1960s American formal dance or social-event home-movie footage for documentary, museum, education, or period-memory edits.
Period detail: Formalwear, a white dinner jacket, light evening gowns, close dancing, and dim party lighting may show mid-1960s social-dance style in Camden, New Jersey.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged value in its close, handheld view of guests dancing, turning, and gathering in low light rather than performing for a formal camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a couple dancing close, a white tuxedo jacket, light gowns, patterned dresses, dark dance-floor surroundings, guest silhouettes, and bright party lights.
Film character: The 8mm image carries heavy grain, low-light color shifts, soft focus, handheld framing, and contact-sheet edge artifacts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, dance-floor cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century social life, romance, celebration, or nightlife.
Historical context: The footage visually places adults in formal attire at a private or community dance gathering, offering social context without identifying the event or participants.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so copyright licensing should be considered separately from likeness, privacy, and any venue or event permissions.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1964 Camden New Jersey 8mm formal dance, 1960s home movie party, vintage couple dancing, and mid-century social gathering footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Camden or New Jersey material from 1964, then broader 1960s formal party and dancing scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1964 Camden home-movie footage, a man in a white dinner jacket dances closely with a woman in a light gown under dim lighting. — A formally dressed couple dances close together in low party light.

A low-light 8mm frame shows formal-dressed guests on the dance floor, with a white tuxedo jacket partly visible near the center. — Guests in formalwear move through a dark, crowded dance-floor scene.

The frame shows a woman in a shiny patterned dress dancing near another formally dressed guest in dark blue 8mm party lighting. — A patterned evening dress catches the light as guests dance nearby.

A dark, grainy Camden dance-party frame shows bright lights above a crowded room with guests and partial figures in formal clothing. — Bright party lights glow over a crowded, low-light dance scene.

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