New York-1955: Family Eating Together Around Small Table

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

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Family Eating Together Around Small Table — Clip Details

A family gathers around a small dining table in a cozy home setting, sharing a meal in this 1955 8mm home movie. Adults of various ages sit together, eating from bowls and drinking from glasses, with a woman in a dark patterned dress and glasses serving food. The warm, slightly faded colors and visible film grain evoke a nostalgic, intimate atmosphere. The scene captures quiet domestic life and familial connection in mid-century America.

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: 125503985

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, 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: 1950s New York 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a brief domestic family meal scene or mid-century private-interior cutaway.
Period detail: The clip shows a small home dining table, patterned dresses, short-sleeve shirts, serving bowls, glassware, and warm interior colors consistent with the supplied 1955 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal family behavior as adults eat, pass bowls, lean into conversation, and continue the meal without staged presentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a crowded dining table, seated adults, a woman serving from a blue bowl, drinking glasses, serving dishes, a wall cabinet, table linens, and a close private home interior.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, warm faded color, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a domestic-life insert, family-memory beat, meal-time cutaway, or transition into a broader sequence about mid-century home routines.
Historical context: The footage visually documents adult family dining in a private New York home, with social emphasis on shared food, table service, and close indoor gathering.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so copyright, likeness, privacy, and property permissions should be reviewed separately before reuse.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1955 New York family dinner 8mm home movie, mid-century adults eating at table, and private home meal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with New York 1955 domestic footage, and then with broader family meal or home-interior themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1955 New York home-movie frame, adults gather closely around a small dining table as a woman in glasses holds a blue serving bowl. — Family gathered around a small dining table.

Adults sit around a crowded dining table in a private New York interior, with a woman in glasses near the back and dishes spread across the table. — Adults eating together in a private home.

The home-movie frame shows several adults at a small table, with a woman holding a bowl and food, glasses, and serving dishes arranged in front of them. — Close family meal around a table.

Adults continue a shared meal around a small dining table in the 1955 New York home-movie footage, with bowls, plates, glasses, and close indoor seating visible. — Shared meal in a small home dining space.

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