New York City-1958: Round Tubular Fluorescent Light On Ceiling Turned On

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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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Round Tubular Fluorescent Light On Ceiling Turned On — Clip Details

NEW YORK CITY-1958: A close-up view of a round tubular fluorescent light fixture mounted on a textured ceiling, captured on 8mm film. The light is illuminated, casting a bright circular glow against the dark surroundings. The camera remains mostly static, with slight movement and focus shifts, revealing the characteristic grain and soft focus of vintage home movie footage. The scene is intimate and atmospheric, evoking a sense of mid-century domestic or commercial interior life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124559814

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s New York interior inserts needing a close view of illuminated fluorescent ceiling fixtures on 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The round tubular fluorescent ceiling lights may show mid-century interior lighting, with textured ceiling surfaces and simple utilitarian fixtures visible.
Home-movie behavior: The camera lingers from below with slight movement and focus softness, giving the fixture the casual attention of an unstaged home-movie observation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two round fluorescent fixtures, glowing circular tubes, dark ceiling areas, textured surfaces, central fixture stems, and heavy shadow.
Film character: The clip has strong 8mm grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and dark falloff around bright light rings that create a physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an interior cutaway, atmospheric transition, or memory beat between domestic or commercial New York scenes.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for everyday artificial lighting in a mid-century interior without identifying a specific building or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, though copyright and any location or property questions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searchers may find it with phrases such as 1958 New York 8mm fluorescent ceiling light, mid-century interior light fixture, or vintage home movie lighting cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel interior shots, then other 1958 New York clips, then broader mid-century lighting or domestic-detail footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New York 8mm frame showing two illuminated round fluorescent ceiling fixtures from below in a dark interior. — Two circular fluorescent ceiling lights glow against a dark textured ceiling.

Close 8mm view of illuminated circular ceiling fixtures, with bright rings and soft focus in a dark 1958 New York interior. — Bright circular light rings dominate the upper part of the dark frame.

The camera drops below the fixtures, leaving a dark textured interior surface and only faint edge light from the ceiling area. — The view shifts away from the fixtures into a darker textured surface.

Final 8mm frame holds on a dim textured interior surface with a central dark vertical band after the ceiling lights leave view. — A dim textured surface fills the frame after the lights move out of view.

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