New York City-1958: Woman In Black Dress Walking In Backyard

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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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Woman In Black Dress Walking In Backyard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a black dress walking through a grassy yard outside a white-sided house. The footage shows her moving toward the camera with a neutral expression, while another person in a light shirt is briefly visible in the background near a wooden fence. The scene has a grainy, blue-tinted quality typical of 8mm film from the late 1950s, with natural lighting and a handheld camera feel. The overall mood is candid and nostalgic, offering a glimpse into everyday life in mid-century America.

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: 124559236

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 a brief backyard portrait or domestic-life insert with adults visible.
Period detail: The black sleeveless dress, white-sided house, yard fencing, and 8mm color stock may show late-1950s everyday residential surroundings.
Home-movie behavior: The woman walks toward the camera with a neutral, informal expression, giving the clip an unstaged family-film quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a dark dress, grassy yard, white house siding, shrubs, a wooden fence, trees, and a briefly seen adult in a light shirt.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, blue-green color shift, uneven exposure, rounded frame edges, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short memory beat, domestic-life cutaway, or transition into a mid-century family or neighborhood sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers a modest view of adult leisure or posing in a residential yard, without enough visual evidence to identify the household or occasion.
Research note: Adult faces and a residential exterior are visible, so likeness and property context may require review separate from copyright status.
Research search match: Searches such as 1958 New York City 8mm backyard woman, 1950s home movie woman in yard, and vintage residential family film match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 New York City home movies, then broader 1950s backyard and domestic-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New York City 8mm frame showing a shaded backyard with trees, shrubs, fencing, and part of a white-sided house. — A shaded residential yard appears before the woman enters the center of the shot.

1958 New York City home-movie frame of a woman in a dark sleeveless dress walking in a grassy backyard near a house. — The woman crosses the yard with the house and shrubs behind her.

1958 New York City 8mm frame showing the woman closer to camera in the backyard, with house siding and fencing behind her. — The woman pauses or slows as she faces the handheld camera in the yard.

1958 New York City home-movie frame with a closer view of the woman approaching the camera in a residential backyard. — A closer frame captures the woman approaching the camera near the end of the shot.

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