Michigan-1959: Man Wearing White Shirt And Glasses Eats From A Glass Bowl

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 in Michigan

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Man Wearing White Shirt And Glasses Eats From A Glass Bowl — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1959 captures a family gathering in Michigan, featuring a man in a white shirt and glasses eating from a glass bowl. The footage shows a woman in a blue dress and another woman in a light-colored blouse, all engaged in a casual meal. The scene is shot in dim lighting with a strong blue color cast, typical of 8mm film from the era, and exhibits natural grain and slight motion blur. The handheld camera follows the subjects in a personal, intimate style, conveying a nostalgic, everyday moment from the late 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, 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: 125572864

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 2228 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: howard black,
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: flint michigan
Date: 1959 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: Michigan, 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Michigan home-life requests needing intimate family meal footage, domestic interiors, or everyday postwar American social scenes.
Period detail: The clothing, eyeglasses, tableware, and 8mm color home-movie format support a late-1950s domestic setting, with Michigan and 1959 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged family behavior as adults sit and eat in dim indoor light while the handheld camera moves close to faces and table activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adults at a meal, a man in glasses, a white shirt, a blue dress, a glass bowl, spoons, dim walls, and soft household lighting.
Film character: The footage has saturated blue color shift, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld movement typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a domestic-life cutaway, family-memory insert, meal transition, or quiet beat within a 1950s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents casual indoor family dining and social presence in a private home, showing ordinary clothing and table interaction rather than a formal event.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed separately from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1959 Michigan 8mm family meal, 1950s home movie man with glasses eating, and vintage domestic dining footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Michigan home interiors, then broader family meal and domestic gathering footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A woman in a blue dress stands near a wall in low indoor light.

Close 8mm frame of a man in glasses and a light shirt looking down during a Michigan family meal scene. — A man in glasses is seen in close-up as he looks down at the table.

A man in a white shirt and glasses sits at a table in a dim 1959 Michigan home interior, with another adult partly visible. — The seated man reaches near a glass bowl while another person is partly visible at the table.

The man in a white shirt and glasses remains seated at the table as other family members are partly visible in the dim home interior. — Family members gather around the table as the man in glasses looks down toward the meal.

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