New York-1959: Man in Plaid Shirt and Boy in Kitchen

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

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Man in Plaid Shirt and Boy in Kitchen — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1959 captures a man in a plaid shirt and glasses in a dimly lit kitchen, smiling and gesturing toward the camera. The footage shows a young boy in a striped shirt from behind, standing near a lampshade and a decorative wall medallion. The grainy, green-tinted film has a distinct 1950s home movie aesthetic with natural lighting and slight camera shake, evoking a sense of personal memory and domestic life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
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: 125575279

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 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 (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 a brief domestic kitchen moment with family or household interaction.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1950s interior details, including dark kitchen cabinetry, a wall medallion, a pleated lampshade, and tabletop decorative objects.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged household presence: a man smiles and gestures toward the camera while another figure turns away nearby.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a plaid-shirted man with glasses, a striped-shirt figure, kitchen cabinets, a lampshade, wall decor, a chair, and tabletop ornaments.
Film character: The 8mm footage has heavy grain, greenish color shift, uneven exposure, soft focus, and handheld movement that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a domestic memory beat, kitchen cutaway, family-life insert, or transition within a 1950s personal-history sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers a modest view of private indoor leisure and household space without supporting broader claims beyond domestic life in the stated era and location.
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: Useful search matches include 1959 New York 8mm home movie kitchen, man in plaid shirt glasses, and 1950s family interior footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1959 New York home movies, then with domestic interiors or family gathering footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1959 New York home interior, a striped-shirt figure faces away near a pleated lampshade and decorative wall medallion. — A striped-shirt figure stands with their back to the camera in a domestic interior.

A man in glasses and a plaid shirt stands in a dim 1959 New York kitchen with cabinets and decorative items behind him. — A plaid-shirted man stands in a kitchen, facing the camera.

The 1959 New York home-movie frame shows a smiling man in a plaid shirt beside kitchen cabinets and tabletop ornaments. — The man smiles beside kitchen cabinets and decorative household objects.

A blurred 1959 New York home interior frame shows a chair, lamp, cabinet, and furnishings during a quick handheld camera move. — The camera swings across a furnished room, leaving the chair and lamp blurred.

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