New York City-1956: Man In Blue Suit Standing On Gravel Road

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 New York City

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Man In Blue Suit Standing On Gravel Road — Clip Details

A man in a blue suit stands on a gravel road in a quiet suburban setting, captured on 8mm film in 1956. He wears a white shirt and tie, with a slight smile as he looks toward the camera. The background features a white house, trees with autumn foliage, and a wooden fence. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and a handheld camera feel, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American home movie.

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: 124557441

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: 1956 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: New York City, New York, 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

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 1950s American home-movie requests needing an adult man in formal clothing posed outdoors for documentary, education, or period-life edits.
Period detail: The blue suit, white shirt, tie, gravel road, wooden fence, modest white house, and autumn trees may show mid-century suburban or outer-borough surroundings.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears to stand and lightly pose for the camera, giving the clip an unstaged family-film quality rather than a directed performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a suited man, pale gravel road, white house, wooden fence, leafing trees, autumn foliage, strong daylight, and dark film gate edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and handheld framing consistent with original home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief character insert, family-memory beat, suburban exterior cutaway, or transition into a mid-century personal-history sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a quiet domestic outdoor setting with formal adult dress, but the frames do not identify the person, house, neighborhood, or occasion.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so copyright licensing should be separated from any needed likeness or location review for the visible setting.
Research search match: Search matches include 1950s 8mm man in suit outdoors, New York home movie gravel road, mid-century suburban exterior, and adult posing for camera.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1956 New York footage, then broader 1950s home-movie scenes of people outdoors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 8mm frame of a man in a blue suit standing on a gravel road in a quiet New York setting with trees, fence, and a white house behind him. — A suited man stands on a gravel road with a white house and autumn trees in the background.

1956 8mm frame showing the suited man facing the camera on a pale gravel road, with trees, a fence, and a white house visible behind him. — The man faces the camera in bright daylight on the open road surface.

1956 8mm frame of the man in a blue suit standing with his hands together on the gravel road, backed by trees, fencing, and a white house. — The suited man shifts posture while standing in the same outdoor setting.

Soft 1956 8mm frame showing the suited man farther back on the gravel road, with a white house, fence, trees, and dark gate edges around the scene. — A softer final frame holds on the man standing in the road near the house and trees.

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