New York-1939: Family Eating Dinner At Table In Home Movie

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Year1939
Decade1930s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1939 New York

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Family Eating Dinner At Table In Home Movie — Clip Details

A grainy black-and-white 8mm home movie from 1939 captures a quiet domestic scene in New York. Three people, including a young child in a high chair, are seated around a table covered with a white lace tablecloth. The woman on the left, wearing a dark dress with a light collar, eats from a plate. The child in the center is actively eating, while the older woman on the right, with light-colored hair, also dines. The setting appears to be a modest dining room with curtains and a cabinet visible in the background. The footage has a soft focus and natural lighting, evoking a nostalgic, intimate family moment from the late 1930s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
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: 125455128

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 1676 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: jane
Reel-level year note: 1939
Reel-level location note: new york,washington
Date: 1939 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 1930s New York domestic life, family dining, and quiet home-interior moments for documentary or educational use.
Period detail: The lace tablecloth, modest dining room, curtained window, and formal dark clothing may show everyday late-1930s home dining style.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged meal behavior, with adults and a young child eating and interacting at a small table.
What appears in frame: Three people sit around a table with dishes, cups, a lace cloth, a child-height chair, curtains, and a cabinet or shelf behind them.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, high-contrast black-and-white exposure, and slight frame instability give the scan a small-gauge home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a domestic-life insert, family-memory beat, or quiet transition in a 1930s urban home sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for private family meals and intergenerational home life without identifying the household or occasion.
Research note: Visible faces and a private interior require likeness, privacy, and property review, separate from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1939 New York home movie family dinner, black-and-white 8mm dining room, and vintage family eating footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1939 New York interiors, then broader family dining and domestic-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 New York home-movie frame showing two adults and a young child seated around a dining table in a curtained room. — Adults and a young child sit at a dining table during a home meal.

Black-and-white 1939 New York home-movie frame of a woman eating as a child and older woman sit at the same table. — The woman at left eats while the child and older woman remain seated at the table.

1939 New York home interior frame with a woman at left lifting something to her mouth while a child sits at the center. — A woman eats or drinks while the child remains seated at the center of the table.

Black-and-white home-movie frame from 1939 New York showing an older woman reaching toward a child at the dinner table. — The older woman reaches toward the child as the family meal continues.

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