Joliet Illinois USA-1941: Men In Tuxedos Laughing And Playing At Formal Event

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Year1941
Decade1940s
LocationJoliet, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1941 Joliet Illinois

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Men In Tuxedos Laughing And Playing At Formal Event — Clip Details

JOLIET ILLINOIS USA-1941: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a joyful moment of men in tuxedos laughing and playfully covering each other's eyes at a formal event. Shot on 8mm film, the footage features a woman in a dark dress and tiara, followed by a group of smiling men in tuxedos and bow ties, their laughter and camaraderie evident. The warm, slightly faded color palette and film grain evoke a nostalgic 1940s atmosphere, perfect for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or archival storytelling.

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: 124601751

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 2070 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: cb hill jr
Reel-level year note: 1941
Reel-level location note: glencoe illinois
Date: 1941 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: Joliet, Illinois, 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 requests needing 1940s American formal-event home-movie footage, especially inserts about social gatherings, male camaraderie, or celebratory interiors.
Period detail: The tuxedos, bow ties, tiara-like headpiece, and warm 8mm color may show a formal social occasion in Joliet, Illinois, in 1941 as described by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal, playful behavior: adults laugh, crowd together, and cover one another's eyes in a candid party moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include men in tuxedos, a woman in a dark dress, bow ties, a plain wall backdrop, smiling faces, close group spacing, and soft handheld framing.
Film character: The footage has a faded purple color cast, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that preserve its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, social cutaway, or transition into a sequence about formal gatherings, friendship, or wartime-era civilian life.
Historical context: The scene visually reflects a private or semi-private formal gathering, with adults dressed for an occasion but no visible signage identifying the event.
Research note: Faces are clearly visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed; no logos or private property details are evident, and copyright clearance is separate.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1941 8mm home movie formal event, men in tuxedos laughing, Joliet Illinois party footage, and 1940s social gathering film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Joliet 1941 material, then broader 1940s formal-event or home-party scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In supported 1941 Joliet home-movie footage, two men in tuxedos smile as one playfully covers the other's eyes. — Two tuxedoed men share a playful formal-event moment.

At the formal gathering, a tuxedoed man playfully covers a woman's eyes while both lean together and laugh. — A playful gesture between a tuxedoed man and a woman at the event.

Several tuxedoed men gather in front of a plain wall, smiling and laughing in the Joliet formal-event home movie. — A group of men in tuxedos laugh together during the gathering.

Men in tuxedos cluster together, with one man bending forward laughing as others smile behind him at the 1941 Joliet event. — Men in formal wear laugh and crowd into the home-movie frame.

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