New York City-1956: Middle Aged Woman Serves Beverages Outdoors To A Couple

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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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Middle Aged Woman Serves Beverages Outdoors To A Couple — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1956 captures a middle-aged woman in a dark blue dress serving sparkling beverages to a couple outdoors in New York City. The man wears a light blue button-down shirt and dark trousers, while the woman carries a tray with glasses and a bottle. They stand on a concrete path beside a house with white siding, with a classic 1950s sedan parked nearby. The footage shows natural daylight, slight film grain, and a casual, nostalgic atmosphere of a mid-century social gathering.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 124557756

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: Yes
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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s New York home-movie requests needing a brief outdoor social gathering, hospitality, or mid-century domestic-life insert.
Period detail: The dark dress, button-down shirt, tray service, and rounded 1950s sedan support the supplied 1956 period identification.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal, unstaged exchange as a woman serves drinks to adults outside a home while the camera observes casually.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adults outdoors, a beverage tray, glasses, a bottle, a white-sided house, concrete path, shrubbery, and a parked sedan.
Film character: The 8mm footage has saturated color, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing typical of scanned home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, memory beat, or social-life insert between broader scenes of 1950s family gatherings or suburban visits.
Historical context: The clip shows mid-century adults socializing outdoors in a domestic setting, with clothing and automobile details anchoring the scene visually.
Research note: People, faces, and an identifiable automobile are visible, so likeness, trademark, and property context should be reviewed separately from footage copyright.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1956 8mm New York home movie, woman serving drinks outdoors, 1950s couple social gathering, and vintage sedan driveway scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1956 New York domestic footage, then with 1950s outdoor entertaining or beverage service clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1956 New York home-movie footage, a man and woman stand outside near a white-sided house and shrubs. — A couple stands outdoors beside a house before the beverage service.

A woman in a dark blue dress serves beverages from a tray outdoors, with a 1950s sedan visible behind her. — A woman carries a tray of glasses and a bottle near the parked car.

The woman continues serving beverages outdoors, partly framed by film edge and the sedan behind her. — The server handles the bottle and glasses in a driveway setting.

A woman in a blue dress holds a tray of sparkling beverages near a parked 1950s sedan in the outdoor scene. — The beverage tray is shown clearly as the woman stands by the car.

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