New York-1959: Old Woman With Glasses Unwrapping Present Of A Sweater

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Old Woman With Glasses Unwrapping Present Of A Sweater — Clip Details

A woman in a blue dress and glasses unwraps a pink cardigan sweater in a 1959 home kitchen. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures her excited expression as she holds up the new garment, with a vintage stove and refrigerator visible in the background. The warm, slightly faded colors and film grain evoke authentic mid-century domestic life. This home movie clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into a personal moment of gift-giving and joy 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 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: 125575065

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 1101 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: north pole,game farm,amusement park, reel 2
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1959 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 a domestic gift-giving moment, an older woman, or mid-century family interior for documentary or educational editing.
Period detail: The kitchen appliances, boxed gift, cardigan style, eyeglasses, and 8mm color palette support a late-1950s domestic setting without identifying a specific household.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged family exchange as the woman unwraps and holds up a pink cardigan while another older adult watches from beside the table.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an older woman in glasses, a pink cardigan, a kitchen stove, a refrigerator, a gift box, tableware, shelves, and an older man seated nearby.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, slight color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that give the domestic scene clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a memory beat, family-life insert, holiday or birthday cutaway, or transition into themes of domestic care and personal celebration.
Historical context: The scene shows a private mid-century kitchen gift exchange, suggesting everyday family life rather than a public event or identifiable civic setting.
Research note: Faces and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed separately from any copyright assessment of the film scan.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1959 New York home movie, older woman opening present, pink cardigan gift, vintage kitchen, and 8mm family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1959 New York family interiors, and finally with home-movie gift-giving or kitchen scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1959 New York home-movie frame, an older man with glasses sits in a private kitchen near shelves, a chair, and a small tray. — An older man watches from the kitchen as the gift exchange begins.

An older woman in a blue dress holds up a pink cardigan in a 1959 New York kitchen, with a stove and open gift box visible. — The woman lifts the pink cardigan from the open gift box.

The woman displays the pink cardigan toward the camera in the home kitchen, with the stove, refrigerator, and open box behind it. — The cardigan is held open for the camera in the kitchen.

The woman lowers or folds the pink cardigan beside the open gift box in the 1959 New York kitchen, with a refrigerator behind her. — She lowers the sweater after showing it to the camera.

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