New York-1939: Family Dining Together in 1930s Home Movie

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

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Family Dining Together in 1930s Home Movie — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1939: A family gathers for a meal in a warmly lit dining room, captured on 8mm film. A woman in a dark dress sits at a table covered with a white lace tablecloth, while a child in a high chair eats at the center. Another woman joins the table, and the scene is filled with the quiet intimacy of a mid-century household. The footage shows natural film grain, slight camera shake, and the soft focus characteristic of home movies from the era, evoking a sense of nostalgia and domestic life in the 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: 125455152

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: 1939 New York home-movie dining-room footage for documentary or museum projects needing domestic family life from the late 1930s.
Period detail: The lace tablecloth, high chair, formal table setting, and dark dresses may show late-1930s household dining customs in a private New York interior.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the quiet, unstaged meal behavior as adults sit near a small child and interact around the table.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lace-covered dining table, seated adults, a child in a high chair, curtained windows, candles or table items, flowers, and dark interior furniture.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, vertical marks, and slight handheld framing that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief domestic insert, family-memory beat, or transition into a sequence about household life in the 1930s.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for private family dining and caregiving inside a New York home without proving broader social or economic conditions.
Research note: People, a child, faces, and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property permissions should be reviewed separately from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1939 New York family dinner 8mm, 1930s home movie dining room, child in high chair archival footage, and vintage household meal.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other New York 1939 home interiors, and then with broader 1930s family dining footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1939 New York home-movie frame showing adults at a lace-covered dining table with a child in a high chair. — Family members sit around a dining table as a small child faces the camera from a high chair.

1939 New York interior with adults seated on either side of a child in a high chair at a household meal. — Adults sit at either side of the table while the child remains centered in the high chair.

Soft 8mm frame of a New York dining room, with a child in a high chair and an adult seated beside the table. — The table setting and high chair are centered as an adult sits in profile at the right edge.

1939 New York home interior showing an adult seated beside a lace-covered table and a child in a high chair. — An adult sits at the right side of the dining table while the child remains framed near the window.

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