New York-1954: Formal Dinner Party With Guests In 1950s Attire

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

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Formal Dinner Party With Guests In 1950s Attire — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1954: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a formal dinner party in a dimly lit restaurant. Guests in 1950s attire, including a man in a suit with a boutonniere and women in elegant dresses, are seated at a table with bottles and glasses. The footage shows lively conversation and social interaction, with a priest in clerical clothing visible among the guests. The warm, grainy quality of the Super 8 film evokes a nostalgic, intimate atmosphere of mid-century American social life.

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: 124928864

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 requests needing 1950s New York home-movie footage of formal restaurant dining, adult social gatherings, or mid-century celebration cutaways.
Period detail: The clip may show 1950s formal attire, including dark suits, dresses, a boutonniere, table linens, glass bottles, and a dim restaurant interior.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the candid, close-table perspective as guests converse, turn toward one another, and react naturally during a private dinner.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include seated adults, formal clothing, a man with a boutonniere, women in dresses, bottles, glasses, folded napkins, and upholstered seating.
Film character: The 8mm footage has warm color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing consistent with scanned mid-century home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, social-history cutaway, restaurant transition, or intimate memory beat within a 1950s sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for adult social dining and formal private gatherings in mid-century American home-movie footage.
Research note: Faces, private interior details, possible bottle labels, and clerical clothing are visible, so likeness, property, trademark, and contextual review may be needed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1954 New York dinner party home movie, 1950s formal restaurant gathering, 8mm banquet footage, and mid-century social dining.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby same-reel dinner scenes, then other New York 1954 material, then broader 1950s formal gatherings or restaurant interiors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 New York home-movie frame showing adults in formal attire seated around a dim restaurant table with bottles and glasses. — Guests converse around a crowded table during a formal restaurant dinner.

Adults in 1950s formal dress sit and talk at a restaurant table in New York, with table linens, bottles, and glassware visible. — Formal dinner guests sit shoulder to shoulder at a restaurant table.

A 1954 New York dinner-party frame shows guests in formal clothing, with a suited man near the table and women seated in the foreground. — The camera shifts along the table, catching guests in conversation and motion.

A suited man with a boutonniere sits beside women at a formal New York restaurant dinner, with bottles, glasses, and napkins on the table. — A suited guest with a boutonniere sits at the table as others listen nearby.

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