New York-1955: Woman Wearing Black Dress Serves Green and White Cake at Dinner Table

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

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Woman Wearing Black Dress Serves Green and White Cake at... — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1955 captures a family gathering in New York, centered on a festive meal. A woman in a black dress serves a green-frosted cake with white icing, while a man in a white shirt cuts into it. The table is set with plates of food, cups, and a yellow tablecloth, all under warm indoor lighting. The footage shows natural film grain and slight camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, intimate atmosphere of a mid-century celebration.

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: 125504163

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 an intimate family dinner or celebration insert with adults serving cake indoors.
Period detail: The clothing, table setting, yellow tablecloth, 8mm color stock, and domestic dining room may show mid-1950s family entertaining style.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal, close-range home-movie behavior as adults lean over the table, serve cake, and react naturally to one another.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a green-and-white cake, woman in a black dress, man in a white shirt, cups, plates of food, yellow tablecloth, and wood-paneled interior.
Film character: The clip has warm indoor exposure, visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight handheld movement, and contact-print density shifts that support its home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief celebration cutaway, family-memory beat, meal transition, or domestic-life insert in a mid-century sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a private household gathering around food and cake, offering visual context for family celebration without identifying the occasion.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property considerations may apply separately from any copyright review.
Research search match: Searches it may satisfy include 1950s New York home movie family dinner, 8mm cake serving, mid-century indoor celebration, and vintage family meal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1955 New York interiors, then broader family dinner, cake, or home celebration footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 New York home-movie frame showing a woman in a black dress serving near a green-and-white cake at an indoor dinner table. — A woman leans over the table as cake and dinner plates fill the foreground.

1955 New York home-movie frame with adults around a yellow-covered dinner table and a green-frosted cake in the center. — Adults gather closely around the cake during the indoor meal.

1955 New York home-movie frame showing a man in a white shirt cutting a green-and-white cake at a family dinner table. — A seated man begins cutting the cake amid cups and plates of food.

1955 New York home-movie frame showing a smiling man cutting a green-frosted cake during an indoor family meal. — The man smiles while cutting the green-frosted cake at the table.

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