New York-1948: Woman in Purple Dress Walking Through Garden

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

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Woman in Purple Dress Walking Through Garden — Clip Details

A woman in a vibrant purple dress with white trim and pearl buttons walks through a lush garden on a sunny day in this 1948 8mm home movie. Shot in New York, the footage captures her smiling as she moves past a white picket fence and dense green foliage. The warm, saturated colors and natural light highlight the mid-century fashion and serene suburban atmosphere. This vintage 8mm film clip offers authentic archival footage of everyday life in the late 1940s, perfect for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific projects.

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: 124875988

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 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: Supports 1940s New York home-movie requests needing a brief garden scene with an adult woman walking in daylight for documentary, museum, education, or period montage use.
Period detail: The woman's purple dress with white trim and pearl-like buttons, the 8mm color, and the suburban garden setting are visible mid-century clues consistent with the supplied 1948 date.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears relaxed and aware of the camera, smiling as she walks through the garden in an informal family-film moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an adult woman, a purple dress with white trim, pearl-like buttons, green shrubs, pale flowers, tree shade, sunlight, and a white picket fence.
Film character: The clip has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, mild grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that give it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short memory beat, domestic-life insert, garden cutaway, or transitional glimpse of 1940s leisure and dress.
Historical context: The scene shows an adult woman outdoors in a cultivated garden, offering visual context for everyday home and leisure settings without confirming identity or occasion.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright, with no logos or audible music indicated in the supplied metadata.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1948 New York 8mm home movie, woman walking in garden, mid-century dress, sunny garden footage, and vintage family film flowers.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with New York 1948 material, and then with related garden, women, fashion, and home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1948 New York 8mm home-movie frame, an adult woman in a purple dress with white trim walks through a sunlit garden near a white fence. — Woman in a purple dress walking through a leafy garden beside a white picket fence.

A 1948 New York home-movie frame shows an adult woman in a purple dress moving through a green garden with trees and bright foliage behind her. — Woman facing the camera while moving through a shaded garden.

In this 1948 New York frame, the woman smiles toward the camera while standing or walking near pale flowering shrubs and dense greenery. — Smiling woman in purple dress among garden plants and pale blossoms.

The 1948 New York 8mm frame catches the woman partly at the edge of the shot as she walks past pale flowering shrubs in a bright garden. — Woman walking out of frame beside flowering shrubs in the garden.

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