Japan-1952: Friends Gathering For Dinner At A Japanese Home

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationJapan
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Friends Gathering For Dinner At A Japanese Home — Clip Details

A group of friends gathers around a dining table in a cozy Japanese home in 1952, sharing a warm dinner. Men in casual shirts and a woman in a red top converse and eat, with a roasted chicken centerpiece on the table. The scene is captured on 8mm film, showing soft colors, natural lighting from a window with blinds, and vintage wallpaper and red curtains. The handheld camera captures intimate moments of laughter and conversation, evoking a nostalgic, authentic home movie feel.

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: 125227560

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1952 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: Japan 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Japan home-movie dinner scene suited for documentary inserts about expatriate or social domestic life, informal entertaining, and mid-century private interiors.
Period detail: Visible clues include 1950s casual shirts, patterned wallpaper, red curtains, window blinds, tableware, and an indoor dining setup that may show a private Japanese home setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the informal, unstaged interaction as adults sit closely around a meal, smoke, listen, and converse while the handheld camera observes from the table edge.
What appears in frame: The frames show seated adults, a dining table, roasted poultry in a pan, cups and dishes, cigarettes, red curtains, window blinds, and patterned wallpaper.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, dense indoor exposure, visible grain, slight color shift, and handheld framing that give the scene a direct home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, domestic-life cutaway, or transition into a sequence about meals, friendship, travel, or private social gatherings.
Historical context: The scene documents a small mixed adult gathering around a shared dinner table, offering visual context for mid-century domestic entertaining without identifying the people shown.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed; copyright status is separate from any personal or location permissions.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1952 Japan home movie dinner, 1950s friends at dining table, 8mm private home gathering, or mid-century informal meal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Japan 1952 domestic scenes, and then with broader themes of friends dining, home interiors, and social gatherings.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1952 Japan home-movie frame, adults sit around a dining table with a roasted dish, cups, red curtains, and patterned wallpaper. — Adults gather at a dining table during an informal meal inside a private home.

Adults converse around a dining table in a private home, with red curtains, window blinds, and a central roasted dish visible. — A man gestures while others listen during the table conversation.

The handheld frame shows adults seated at a home dinner table, with food in a pan, cups, red curtains, and a foreground figure from behind. — Guests remain seated around the meal as the camera angle shifts along the table.

Adults at a private dinner table in Japan appear to talk and smoke, with tableware, red curtains, window blinds, and wallpaper in view. — Several adults sit close together at the table as conversation continues.

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