New York-1949: Woman Laughing While Holding a Drink

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

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Woman Laughing While Holding a Drink — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1949: A woman in a rust-colored collared blouse smiles and laughs while holding a glass with a drink, her dark hair styled in a classic 1940s updo. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures a candid moment of joy and conversation in a dimly lit room with a window blind in the background. The warm color palette and natural film grain evoke a nostalgic, intimate home movie feel from the post-war era.

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: 124882285

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 requests needing late-1940s New York home-movie footage of adult social conversation, drinking, and candid domestic leisure for documentary or editorial use.
Period detail: The woman's styled dark hair, rust-colored collared blouse, indoor lamp, and window blind may show late-1940s domestic fashion and room details supported by the 1949 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip offers an unstaged social moment as a woman smiles, laughs, talks, and handles a drink while someone nearby films from close range.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a rust blouse, a drinking glass, a small white napkin or tissue, window blinds, dark interior walls, and a table lamp.
Film character: The 8mm scan has warm color, soft focus, visible grain, close handheld framing, and uneven low-light exposure that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, reaction shot, domestic cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about postwar social life or family gatherings.
Historical context: The scene shows adult indoor socializing in a private room, with clothing and decor giving a modest domestic context rather than a public New York landmark.
Research note: A recognizable adult face and private interior are visible, so copyright, likeness, and property permissions should be reviewed separately before sensitive or commercial use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1949 New York 8mm home movie woman laughing with drink, vintage domestic party footage, and 1940s candid indoor conversation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with New York 1949 domestic interiors, then with other 1940s adult socializing or home-gathering clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In this 1949 New York home-movie frame, a woman in a rust-colored collared blouse smiles in a dim private interior beside window blinds. — A woman smiles while seated indoors near window blinds.

A woman in a rust blouse smiles and appears to speak while holding a glass in a dim 1949 New York home interior. — The woman holds a drink and smiles during conversation.

The woman laughs or smiles broadly while holding a glass, with window blinds and a dark private room behind her. — A candid laugh as the woman keeps a drink in hand.

The woman is partly out of frame near a lit table lamp, still holding a glass in the dim home-movie interior. — The camera drifts as the woman and a table lamp share the frame.

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