Indiana-1959: Women Prepare Meal in 1950s Kitchen, One Carves Ham

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationIndiana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Indiana

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Women Prepare Meal in 1950s Kitchen, One Carves Ham — Clip Details

INDIANA-1959: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a domestic kitchen scene from the late 1950s. Two women, one in a black dress and another in a blue and white striped dress, prepare a meal together. The woman in the striped dress, wearing glasses, carves a large cooked ham on the counter while the other woman assists. The kitchen features cream-colored cabinets, a stove, and a window with blinds. The footage shows natural, unposed activity, with warm lighting and the characteristic grain of 8mm film, evoking a nostalgic, authentic slice of mid-century American 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: 125512679

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1959 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Indiana, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for archival requests about late-1950s Midwestern domestic life, meal preparation, family gatherings, or everyday kitchen interiors in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: Visible period clues include cream cabinets, wall-mounted paper towel holder, window blinds, aprons, a compact stove, and home-cooked food consistent with a 1959 kitchen scene.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unposed household action, with women working around a kitchen counter while another adult briefly appears nearby.
What appears in frame: The frames show two women, a carved ham, foil-covered dishes, a stove, cream cabinetry, curtained windows, countertop containers, and a man in a plaid shirt.
Film character: The clip has warm 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure variation, and handheld framing that support its home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a domestic insert, food-preparation cutaway, family-memory beat, or transition into a scene about 1950s home life.
Historical context: The footage visually documents informal food preparation inside a private Indiana home, showing gendered household activity without proving broader social conclusions.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property considerations may apply separately from any copyright status or source licensing.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Indiana home movie kitchen, 1950s women preparing meal, 8mm domestic food preparation, and mid-century family cooking footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then other 1959 Indiana home interiors, then broader 1950s meal preparation or family gathering footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1959 Indiana home kitchen, a woman in glasses and a striped dress works at a counter with ham and foil-covered dishes. — A woman carves ham at a kitchen counter with foil-covered dishes nearby.

The woman in glasses continues preparing food at the counter in the Indiana kitchen, with ham, foil dishes, cabinets, and stove visible. — Food preparation continues beside the stove and kitchen counter.

A woman in a black dress and apron faces the kitchen counter while a man in a plaid shirt stands at the side of the frame. — Another adult joins the kitchen scene as food preparation continues.

Two women prepare food together at the counter in the 1959 Indiana kitchen, with ham, foil dishes, cabinets, and window visible. — Two women share meal-preparation tasks at the kitchen counter.

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