New York City-1955: Woman In Living Room By Vintage TV Set

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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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Woman In Living Room By Vintage TV Set — Clip Details

NEW YORK CITY-1955: A woman in a light cardigan and patterned dress sits in a vintage living room, her hand resting near a classic wooden console television. The 8mm film captures the warm, grainy aesthetic of mid-century home life, with the TV set featuring a rounded screen and wood-grain cabinet. The scene evokes nostalgia for 1950s domestic moments, with soft lighting and period-appropriate decor, including a glass vase on the TV stand. This authentic home movie footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, and historical storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
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: 125303600

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 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s domestic-life requests needing authentic home-movie footage of a woman beside a mid-century television in a private living room.
Period detail: The rounded-screen wooden television cabinet, upholstered chair, glass vase, and soft interior decor support a mid-1950s home setting in the supplied New York City metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears relaxed and conversational near the television, giving the clip an unstaged family-room quality rather than a formal portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden console TV, rounded screen, control knobs, glass vase, upholstered chair, pale wall, patterned dress, and light cardigan.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, warm color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing typical of mid-century home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a domestic-history insert, television-era cutaway, memory beat, or transition within a sequence on 1950s home life.
Historical context: The clip shows television as part of a private living-room setting, offering visual context for postwar domestic interiors without identifying the family or household.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness, privacy, and property concerns should be reviewed separately from any footage copyright assessment.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s woman with television, New York City home movie living room, 8mm vintage TV set, and mid-century domestic interior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1955 New York City interiors, and then with broader mid-century family and television-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 New York City home-movie frame showing a wooden console TV and part of a woman seated nearby in a living room. — A wooden television cabinet fills the frame while a seated woman is partly visible at the side.

1955 New York City interior frame with a mid-century wooden TV set and a woman partly visible beside an upholstered chair. — The television cabinet and nearby chair dominate the living-room view as the woman remains partly out of frame.

1955 New York City home interior showing a console television and a woman's hand gesturing near an upholstered chair. — A hand gestures beside the television, suggesting an informal moment in the living room.

1955 New York City home-movie frame showing a woman in a light cardigan seated beside a wooden TV cabinet. — The woman sits beside the television, looking toward the set or someone nearby in the room.

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