New York-1954: A Formal Dinner Party With Guests In Suits Enjoying Food And Drink

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Year1954
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Formal Dinner Party With Guests In Suits Enjoying Food... — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1954 captures a formal dinner gathering in New York. Guests in suits and elegant attire enjoy a lavish meal at a table set with fine china, glassware, and a green bottle. The warm, slightly grainy footage shows people eating, conversing, and savoring the occasion, with a woman in a black dress and pearl earrings smiling. The scene exudes mid-century sophistication and nostalgic charm, preserved in classic Super 8 film.

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: 124928829

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 1069 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: barlans, bears house,goodmans,bar mitzvah,steve
Reel-level year note: 1953-1954
Reel-level location note: new york city
Date: 1954 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 1950s New York social-life requests needing real home-movie footage of a formal adult dinner gathering.
Period detail: The suits, dark dresses, pearls, table linens, china, glassware, and bottled drinks support a mid-century formal dining setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in unstaged dinner behavior, with guests eating, smiling, turning toward one another, and sharing a crowded table.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include suited guests, women in dark formal clothing, plates of food, bread rolls, china, glasses, bottles, and a white tablecloth.
Film character: The 8mm scan has warm color, visible grain, soft focus, exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, memory beat, or transition for mid-century family celebrations, dining, or urban social life.
Historical context: The footage shows a private adult social meal and may reflect middle-class formal entertaining customs in 1950s New York.
Research note: Faces, a private interior, possible bottle branding, and property or likeness concerns should be reviewed separately from film copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1954 New York 8mm dinner party, 1950s formal meal home movie, guests eating at table, and vintage social gathering footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1954 New York scenes, then broader 1950s home-movie clips of meals, parties, and formal gatherings.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 New York home-movie frame showing adults at a formal dinner table with china, drinks, and a smiling woman in dark attire. — Adults sit around a crowded formal dinner table with food, drink, and conversation.

A suited dinner guest sits in profile at a table set with food, glassware, and bottles.

Handheld 8mm frame from a 1954 New York dinner showing table settings, bread rolls, drinks, and guests in motion blur. — The camera passes over a busy dinner table with plates, rolls, glasses, and seated guests.

1954 New York dinner-party frame showing guests around a formal table with food, rolls, glasses, and utensils in use. — Guests continue eating at a formal table with plates of food, bread rolls, and glassware.

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