Michigan-1959: Women Clearing Dinner Table in Michigan

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

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Women Clearing Dinner Table in Michigan — Clip Details

MICHIGAN-1959: A woman in a vibrant red turtleneck and dark skirt clears a dinner table in a mid-century home kitchen. She moves with purpose, her reflection visible in a mirror against a brick-patterned wall. In a later shot, another woman in a white blouse and dark skirt takes over the task. The footage, shot on 8mm film, captures authentic domestic life with warm, slightly faded colors and natural film grain, evoking a nostalgic 1950s American household.

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: 125573742

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 American home-life requests needing brief domestic table-clearing footage for documentary, museum, education, or period-memory edits.
Period detail: The kitchen or dining area may show mid-century domestic details, including a brick-patterned wall, simple chairs, tablecloth, mirror, painted doors, and modest tableware.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in unstaged household routine as two women clear a dinner table while the camera observes from inside a private home.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adult women, a covered dining table, plates, chairs, a wall mirror, brick-patterned wall covering, painted doors, and window light.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, warm faded color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing consistent with scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a domestic insert, family-memory cutaway, transition between meal scenes, or quiet establishing beat for everyday 1950s interiors.
Historical context: The clip documents ordinary household labor and social space in a Michigan home, with women moving around the dinner table in a private interior.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed in addition to any separate copyright assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Michigan home movie, 1950s dinner table clearing, women in mid-century kitchen, and 8mm domestic family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Michigan 1959 interiors, then broader 1950s family meal and household routine footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1959 Michigan home interior, a woman in a red top stands near a covered dinner table with chairs, doors, and a wall mirror visible. — Woman in red beside the dinner table, reflected in a wall mirror.

A woman in a red top clears items from a dinner table in a 1959 Michigan private home interior, with her reflection visible in the mirror. — Woman in red gathers table items in the kitchen or dining area.

The woman in red moves past the dinner table in a Michigan home interior, with chairs, a mirror, and painted doors framing the scene. — Red-clad woman moves through the dining area during table clearing.

A woman in a white blouse leans across a dinner table in the same 1959 Michigan home interior, with tableware and a wall mirror behind her. — Woman in white takes over clearing the dinner table.

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