New York-1954: Couple Dancing in a Restaurant

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

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Couple Dancing in a Restaurant — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1954 captures a couple dancing in a dimly lit restaurant or banquet hall. The man wears a dark suit while the woman is in a black dress with a white patterned skirt and a pearl necklace. Their movements are intimate and graceful, with the camera capturing close-ups of their embrace and the surrounding tables with white tablecloths and red chairs. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color shifts, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American social scene.

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: 124929276

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: 1950s New York home-movie footage suited to documentary or museum edits needing an intimate restaurant dancing moment with identifiable adults visible.
Period detail: The clothing, pearl necklace, white tablecloths and red chairs support a mid-century restaurant or banquet-hall setting, consistent with the 1954 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld camera stays close to the dancers, preserving an unstaged family or social gathering perspective rather than a formal performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a suited man, a blonde woman in a black top and patterned skirt, pearls, table settings, lamps, red chairs and dim interior walls.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, warm color shifts, visible grain, exposure falloff and slight frame instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, social-life insert, romantic cutaway or transition within a mid-century family or New York nightlife sequence.
Historical context: The clip shows adult social dancing in an indoor dining or banquet space, offering visual context for private celebration and leisure in the 1950s.
Research note: Adults, faces and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed in addition to separate copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s New York restaurant dancing, 8mm couple dancing, mid-century banquet hall, home movie social gathering and vintage adult dance.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel restaurant or family scenes, then with 1954 New York interiors, then with broader mid-century dancing and social gathering footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1954 New York home-movie frame of an adult couple dancing close together in a dim restaurant or banquet room. — A suited man and woman in pearls dance near set tables and red chairs.

Adult couple dancing in a dim New York restaurant setting, with the woman turning and raising her arm. — The woman lifts her arm as the couple turns between tables.

Close home-movie view of the dancing couple, centered on the woman's white patterned skirt and the man's arm. — The camera drops to the dancers' embrace and the woman's full patterned skirt.

Soft, motion-blurred 1954 home-movie frame of the couple dancing close, with the woman's full skirt filling the foreground. — Motion blur emphasizes the couple's turn and the sweep of the woman's skirt.

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