New York City-1958: Lady And Man Posing For A Camera

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 New York City

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Lady And Man Posing For A Camera — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1958 captures a candid moment in New York City, featuring a woman in a black dress and a man in a blue shirt. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows them posing and interacting near a building with white brick walls. The woman's dark hair and light-colored shoes are visible as she stands on grass, while the man holds a cigarette. The handheld camera movement and film grain evoke a nostalgic, 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: 124559113

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 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1958 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: New York City, 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 1950s New York City home-movie requests needing brief candid shots of adults posing near a residential or institutional exterior.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1950s casual clothing, including a sleeveless dark dress and short-sleeve blue collared shirt, beside pale brick or tile walls.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal interaction, with adults turning toward the camera, moving casually, and acknowledging the home-movie operator.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a dark dress, a man in a blue shirt, pale exterior walls, grass, shrubs, a cigarette, and handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, color shift, uneven exposure, and brief handheld drift that give it recognizable home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, personal travel insert, or transitional cutaway for mid-century urban home-movie sequences.
Historical context: The footage records informal social posing outside a building, offering everyday visual context rather than evidence of a named event or landmark.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright status is separate from personal clearance.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 New York City home movie, 8mm adults posing outside, vintage couple near building, and mid-century candid people footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 New York City exteriors, then broader home-movie scenes of adults posing for camera.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1958 New York City home-movie footage, a woman in a dark dress stands near a pale building wall while another adult moves behind her. — A woman in a dark dress is filmed near a building exterior during an informal outdoor moment.

A woman in a sleeveless dark dress faces a man in a blue shirt near pale exterior walls and greenery in the New York City home movie. — The woman turns away from camera while a man in a blue shirt stands beside the building.

The home-movie camera follows a woman in a dark sleeveless dress as she moves near a pale building wall and patch of grass. — A woman in a dark dress moves through the frame beside the exterior wall.

A man in a blue collared shirt faces the camera outdoors, with foliage behind him and the soft grain of 8mm footage visible. — A man in a blue shirt stands close to the camera during the brief outdoor home-movie shot.

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