New York-1949: Woman Serving Family Dinner In 1940s Home Movie

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Year1949
Decade1940s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1949 New York

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Woman Serving Family Dinner In 1940s Home Movie — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1949: A woman in a blue and white polka dot dress and yellow floral apron serves a meal at a dining table. The table is set with a fresh salad, tomatoes, olives, and glassware, with a bottle of dark liquid visible. The footage, shot on 8mm film, captures a candid moment of a family dinner, with another person partially visible in the background. The warm, slightly grainy quality and soft focus are characteristic of vintage home movies from the late 1940s.

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: 124881913

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: 1949 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: New York, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1940s domestic-life requests needing real 8mm New York home-movie footage of a family dinner or meal service inside a private residence.
Period detail: The clothing, table setting, glassware, candlestick, and warm interior dining scene support a late-1940s home-movie reading, with New York and 1949 supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged family meal moment as a woman serves food while others sit or stand nearby, giving editors candid domestic behavior rather than posed portraiture.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a polka dot dress and floral apron, a dining table, salad, tomatoes, olives, glassware, bottles, plates, and a candlestick.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, contact-frame borders, and handheld blur that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a domestic insert, meal-preparation cutaway, family-memory beat, or transition into a sequence about postwar home life.
Historical context: The footage shows a private indoor meal setting and may help illustrate mid-century family dining customs without making broader claims about New York households.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property considerations remain separate from any copyright review and should be checked for intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1949 New York 8mm family dinner, 1940s home movie dining table, woman serving meal, and vintage domestic interior footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other New York 1949 home movies, then broader 1940s family dinner or domestic interior footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A woman leans near the dining table while another person is partly seen in the dim background.

1949 New York dining-room frame with a woman in a polka dot dress and floral apron serving beside a table set with food and glassware. — A woman stands at the table as a meal with salad, plates, and drinks is served.

1949 New York home-movie frame showing a crowded dinner table with bottles, candlestick, plates, salad, and a woman in an apron nearby. — Bottles and a candlestick stand among dishes on the dinner table as a woman remains beside the meal.

Blurred 1949 New York home-movie frame of a woman beside a dinner table with plates, salad, glassware, and serving dishes. — Motion blur softens the table scene as the woman continues serving or standing beside the meal.

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