Saint Louis Missouri-1959: Man With Glasses Walking Toward Camera In Dark Room

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationSaint Louis, Missouri, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Saint Louis Missouri

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Man With Glasses Walking Toward Camera In Dark Room — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this grainy home movie captures a man in glasses walking toward the camera in a dimly lit room. The footage exhibits heavy film grain, a reddish color cast, and low resolution typical of vintage Super 8 home movies. The man, wearing a dark shirt, moves through a shadowy interior with faint background details, creating an intimate, nostalgic atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic 1950s home movie footage for documentaries, editorial projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 124560879

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: 1959 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: Saint Louis, Missouri, 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 requests needing late-1950s 8mm home-movie footage of an adult man in a dim interior for documentary memory, family archive, or period-life sequences.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1959 domestic interior in Saint Louis, with dark clothing, eyeglasses, framed wall decor, and low household lighting as modest period clues.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the unstaged approach toward the camera, with the subject acknowledging or engaging the person filming in an informal indoor moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man with glasses, a dark shirt, shadowy room edges, framed wall decor, a possible window or wall opening, heavy grain, and reddish exposure shifts.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries dense grain, soft focus, dim exposure, reddish color cast, gate edges, and uneven frame brightness that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, interior cutaway, transition into family material, or atmospheric insert for mid-century personal footage.
Historical context: The footage offers a small-scale view of informal adult presence inside a home or room, without enough visible detail to support broader social claims.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed in addition to separate copyright and source-format checks.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Saint Louis 8mm home movie, man with glasses indoors, dim room family footage, and vintage personal archive insert.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Saint Louis interiors, then broader 1950s home-movie scenes of adults indoors.

Still Frames From This Clip

In this 1959 Saint Louis 8mm frame, a man with glasses appears near the top of a dim room, partly obscured by grain and low exposure. — A man with glasses appears faintly in a dark interior at the start of the clip.

A dim 1959 Saint Louis home-movie frame shows faint interior details, reddish film cast, and very little of the subject clearly visible. — The room falls into darkness as the figure is mostly outside the visible frame.

The man with glasses appears at the side of a dim 1959 Saint Louis interior, with framed wall decor and heavy 8mm grain visible. — The man enters the frame near wall decor in the shadowy room.

A man with glasses faces the camera in a dark 1959 Saint Louis home-movie frame, with soft focus, reddish cast, and faint background decor. — The man faces the camera more clearly near the end of the short interior shot.

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