New York-1950: Traveling To Thailand

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Year1950
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1950 New York

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Traveling To Thailand — Clip Details

A grainy, high-contrast 8mm home movie from 1950 captures a fleeting moment of a woman and child traveling through New York. The footage begins with a blank, scratched frame, then reveals a blurry view of a building and a figure in a dark hat. The image remains out of focus, with visible film grain and scratches, suggesting a personal, archival recording. The scene is a quiet, nostalgic glimpse of mid-century life, with the subjects partially obscured by the film's age and quality.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124923656

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: 1950 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

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 1950s New York travel or departure sequences needing brief, atmospheric 8mm home-movie material with indistinct people and city-edge exteriors.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century urban buildings, a pole, exterior railings or fencing, and a dark-hatted figure, with the 1950 New York setting supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual, unstable home-movie viewpoint, where travel is suggested through fleeting glimpses rather than posed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include scratched leader-like frames, soft building facades, a dark hat or head shape, a vertical pole, fencing or railing, window rows, and a partial figure at frame edge.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, high contrast, soft focus, exposure fluctuation, scratches, and contact-print texture that read as physical home-movie evidence.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short memory beat, travel transition, or cutaway to suggest departure, movement, or fragmentary family footage.
Historical context: The material gives a modest view of travel-era urban surroundings and partially seen people without enough visual detail to identify the street, building, or activity.
Research note: People appear only indistinctly, but likeness review may still be needed; no visible logos or music are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property checks.
Research search match: Researchers might find this under 1950 New York 8mm travel footage, blurry home movie city exterior, woman or family travel fragment, or scratched mid-century home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other 1950 New York travel material, then broader home-movie clips about family journeys or departures.

Still Frames From This Clip

Soft, scratched 8mm frame from the New York travel clip with indistinct pale shapes and dark vertical film borders. — A blurred, scratched opening frame with no clearly identifiable subject.

Faint, nearly washed-out 8mm view with scratches and barely visible exterior forms in the New York travel footage. — A washed-out frame with only faint exterior detail visible.

Blurred 1950 New York home-movie frame showing soft building forms and a dark-hatted figure near the lower right edge. — A soft exterior glimpse with a partially obscured dark-hatted figure.

Soft 8mm New York travel frame with a vertical pole, building windows, fencing or railing, and a partial person at the right edge. — A blurred city exterior with a partial figure entering the edge of the frame.

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