New York-1954: Young Couple Dancing At Party With Guests In Background

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

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Young Couple Dancing At Party With Guests In Background — Clip Details

A young couple dances at a 1954 New York party, captured on vintage 8mm film. The man wears a gray suit with a white boutonniere, while the woman is in a dark dress with a styled updo. They embrace closely, moving to music in a dimly lit room with other guests seated at tables in the background. The footage shows natural film grain, slight motion blur, and warm, faded colors typical of home movies from the era. Other guests are visible, some talking and others watching, creating an intimate, nostalgic atmosphere of mid-century 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: 124928915

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 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: Supports archive requests for 1950s New York social life, party dancing, and intimate home-movie material for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits.
Period detail: The formal suit, boutonniere, dark cocktail dress, curled updo, and dim indoor party setting appear consistent with mid-1950s social dress and home-movie coverage.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged closeness of the couple dancing while nearby guests sit, talk, and watch from tables in a private indoor gathering.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dancing couple, formal clothing, a boutonniere, curled hairstyles, seated guests, tables, dim walls, and dark room edges.
Film character: The 8mm image has warm faded color, visible grain, soft focus, handheld framing, and motion blur that give the scene physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a memory beat, social-history insert, romantic cutaway, or transition into a sequence about mid-century parties and private celebrations.
Historical context: The footage shows a small indoor social gathering where adults dance closely and guests sit at tables, offering a glimpse of domestic or private-event leisure culture.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness, privacy, and property review may be needed separately from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s New York party dancing, 8mm home movie couple dancing, mid-century guests at tables, and vintage private celebration footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1954 New York interiors, and then with broader 1950s party, dancing, and social-gathering footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A young couple appears to dance at a 1954 New York party, with soft focus, formal clothing, and a partial guest at the left edge. — A couple dances closely in a dim indoor party setting.

The couple dances in close embrace at the New York party, with the woman's dark dress and curled updo prominent from behind. — The couple is framed from behind while dancing in close embrace.

A close view of the dancing couple shows formal dress and seated guests at tables in the background of the 1954 New York party. — Seated guests and tables appear behind the dancing couple.

The woman, wearing glasses and a dark dress, dances closely with a suited man as seated guests remain visible behind them. — A woman in glasses looks toward the camera while dancing.

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