New York-1955: Woman Serving Large White Cake To Family At Dinner Table

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

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Woman Serving Large White Cake To Family At Dinner Table — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1955: A woman in a black dress and glasses serves a large white cake with green frosting to a man in a white shirt at a dinner table. The scene unfolds in a warmly lit home with textured walls and framed artwork, capturing a candid moment of a family gathering. The vintage 8mm film shows natural grain and color saturation typical of mid-century home movies, with a woman in a patterned dress briefly visible in the background. The atmosphere is intimate and nostalgic, reflecting a classic American family celebration from the 1950s.

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 and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125504161

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news and educational productions. Not permitted in advertising, commercial or branded content, or broadcast promotion.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: New York, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
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 New York home-movie requests needing family celebration, birthday-style cake service, or domestic dinner-table atmosphere.
Period detail: The clothing, eyeglasses, tableware, wallpaper, framed wall art, and 8mm color look support a mid-1950s private-home setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the candid, unstaged interaction as a woman carries and serves a decorated cake while seated relatives look on.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a black dress, a seated man in a white shirt, a large white cake with green frosting, a red wall lamp, dinner plates, cups, wallpaper, and framed pictures.
Film character: The clip has warm 8mm color, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that preserve the texture of a family home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an insert, memory beat, or transition for family gatherings, birthdays, home dining, or mid-century domestic life.
Historical context: The scene shows a private family meal or celebration in a modest interior, offering social context around home entertaining and shared dessert service.
Research note: Faces and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property permissions may require review separate from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1950s New York family dinner, 8mm birthday cake, grandmother serving cake, home movie celebration, or mid-century domestic interior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other New York 1955 family interiors, then broader 1950s home celebration and dining footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1955 New York home interior, a woman in glasses carries a white cake with green frosting beside a seated man in a white shirt. — A woman brings a decorated cake toward the dinner table as a seated man looks aside.

The woman in a black dress presents the decorated cake near the seated man, with wallpaper, small framed art, and a red wall lamp behind them. — The cake is held at table height as the family gathering continues in the home interior.

The woman moves the white and green cake closer to the table, with the seated man, dinnerware, and another person partly visible in the foreground. — The cake is brought into the center of a crowded dinner-table scene.

At the end of the clip, the woman leans over the dining table with the cake among plates, cups, and seated relatives in the private home. — The cake reaches the table as relatives gather around the meal.

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