New York-1948: Family Celebrating Birthday in Home

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Year1948
Decade1940s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1948 New York

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Family Celebrating Birthday in Home — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1948: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a lively family birthday party in a cozy home setting. Guests in 1940s attire, including a woman in a white blouse and a man in a striped shirt, laugh and mingle in a warmly lit room with floral wallpaper. The grainy, color-bleached footage shows a table with a bottle and food, conveying a sense of joyful nostalgia. This authentic archival clip offers a candid glimpse into mid-century American domestic life and celebration.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
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: 124875787

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: Yes
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 2269 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: wedding,decoration day,wj nolan jr
Reel-level year note: 1948
Reel-level location note: geneva new york
Date: 1948 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, 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 1940s New York domestic-life requests needing candid home-movie party footage with adults socializing around food and drinks.
Period detail: Clothing, eyeglasses, interior shutters, floral wallpaper and tableware may show late-1940s middle-class home celebration details.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in unstaged guests smiling, talking, standing close together and moving around a food table in a private room.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adult guests, striped shirt, white blouse, dark suit, eyeglasses, floral wallpaper, shutters, bottles and a party table.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, handheld framing and color fading that give it authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a birthday-party insert, family memory beat, domestic-life cutaway or transition into postwar household scenes.
Historical context: The clip visually documents adults gathered indoors for a social celebration, showing everyday dress and private-home hospitality in the stated period.
Research note: People, faces, private interiors and possible product labels are visible, so likeness, property and trademark review may be needed apart from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1948 New York 8mm birthday party, 1940s family gathering, vintage home movie guests, food and drinks indoors.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel birthday footage, then other 1948 New York home interiors, then broader 1940s family party and celebration material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1948 New York home-movie frame showing adult guests in a private room, including a woman in a white blouse and others partly visible. — Guests stand together in a decorated interior during the party.

1948 New York party frame with a man in a striped shirt gesturing beside other adult guests in a private home interior. — A striped-shirt guest gestures while standing among other adults.

1948 New York home-party frame showing several adult guests, including a suited man and a woman in dark clothing, near interior shutters. — Guests mingle closely in the warmly lit room.

1948 New York party frame showing a tabletop with bottles, food or serving items, and a standing adult guest in a private interior. — Bottles and food sit on the party table as guests move nearby.

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