New York-1955: Family Gathering at Round Table, Woman Laughing

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

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Family Gathering at Round Table, Woman Laughing — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1955: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a family gathering in a cozy restaurant. A woman in a black floral dress laughs heartily while seated at a round table with others, including a man in a plaid shirt and a woman in a white top smoking. The table is set with a cake, cups, and jars, suggesting a celebration. The warm, grainy footage with soft focus and natural lighting evokes a nostalgic, intimate atmosphere of mid-century American family life.

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: 125504269

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 home-movie footage for productions needing an intimate restaurant family gathering or celebration insert.
Period detail: The clothing, tableware, cigarette, and small restaurant booth setting may show mid-century social dining details supported by the 1955 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged family interaction as seated adults smile, laugh, smoke, and turn toward one another around a shared table.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adults at a restaurant table, a cake or dessert, cups and saucers, jars, a cigarette, booth seating, patterned walls, and floral clothing.
Film character: The 8mm image has warm color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a memory beat, family-life cutaway, restaurant celebration insert, or transition within a mid-century domestic sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for adult social dining and family celebration in a private interior, without identifying the people or occasion.
Research note: Visible faces and a private restaurant interior require likeness and property review, separate from any copyright assessment of the film scan.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s New York family restaurant home movie, 8mm family celebration, adults smoking at dinner, and mid-century dining footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1955 New York material, and then with family gatherings, restaurant interiors, or celebration themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1955 New York home-movie frame showing adults at a restaurant table, including a laughing woman in a floral dress and others nearby. — Family members sit close together at a restaurant table with dessert and cups in view.

1955 New York home-movie frame of adults gathered in a restaurant booth, with a woman in a white top smoking in the foreground. — Seated adults look across the table as a woman in the foreground holds a cigarette.

1955 New York home-movie frame showing a laughing woman in a dark floral dress at a table with cups, jars, and dessert nearby. — A woman laughs at the table during a casual restaurant gathering.

1955 New York home-movie frame with adults in a restaurant interior, including a seated man in a white shirt smoking near the table. — A man smokes beside the booth while others remain seated around the table.

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