New York City-1955: Christmas Tree In City Showing Colorful Ornaments And Lights

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Year1955
Decade1950s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1955 New York City

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Christmas Tree In City Showing Colorful Ornaments And Lights — Clip Details

NEW YORK CITY-1955: A vibrant, out-of-focus Christmas tree glows with colorful ornaments and warm lights against the backdrop of a towering city skyscraper. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the festive spirit of a mid-century holiday season with a soft, dreamy quality. The tree is adorned with red, yellow, and blue baubles, their bokeh effect creating a magical, nostalgic atmosphere. The surrounding urban environment, with its classic architecture and illuminated windows, enhances the sense of a bustling city celebrating the holidays. This vintage home movie offers a charming glimpse into 1950s New York City life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125302844

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 1038 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: rockefeller center rockettes, baby grag, sylvia,mom,jack,stuart,robert,toni
Reel-level year note: 1955
Reel-level location note: new york city
Date: 1955 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 City, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s New York City holiday atmosphere, especially as a brief editorial cutaway for Christmas, urban winter, or mid-century home-movie sequences.
Period detail: The frame may show a mid-century city Christmas tree set against tall office buildings, with colorful ornaments and small lights visible through soft 8mm focus.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on a public holiday display rather than staged action or identifiable people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a decorated Christmas tree, red yellow blue and white ornaments, warm light points, dark branches, high-rise windows, and narrow city-building facades.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that give the holiday lights a diffused home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, transition, or memory beat to signal Christmas in New York City without relying on identifiable people.
Historical context: The footage reflects a public urban holiday display in New York City, with the decorated tree framed close to dense commercial architecture.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or display permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1955 New York City Christmas tree, vintage 8mm holiday lights, mid-century urban Christmas, and home movie city ornaments.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel holiday footage, then other 1955 New York City exteriors, then broader 1950s Christmas lights, decorations, and urban winter scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Soft 8mm view of a decorated Christmas tree in New York City, with colorful ornaments and lights against tall building facades. — Colorful ornaments and lights on a city Christmas tree, framed against high-rise windows.

Decorated holiday tree in soft focus, with red, yellow, blue, and white ornaments near dark high-rise architecture. — A softly focused holiday tree fills the frame beside vertical city-building forms.

Close, grainy 8mm frame of a New York City Christmas tree with dense ornaments and light points before tall buildings. — The tree appears densely decorated, with ornaments and lights softened by the film focus.

Wider soft-focus view of the decorated Christmas tree, with colorful ornaments and lights set among New York City high-rises. — A wider view places the ornamented tree among tall urban building facades.

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