New York-1959: Family Gathering In Mid-Century Living Room

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

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Family Gathering In Mid-Century Living Room — Clip Details

NEW YORK-1959: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a warm domestic scene in a mid-century American living room. An elderly woman in a pink patterned blouse and glasses sits at a table, smiling as she converses with a younger woman with a 1950s-style bouffant hairstyle. In the background, a man in a dark suit and glasses relaxes in a green armchair. The room features a dark wood cabinet with a floral arrangement and a photo album, and a spinning wheel is visible in the corner. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, intimate family moment from the late 1950s.

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: 125575518

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: Useful for 1950s New York home-movie requests needing an intimate domestic family gathering for documentary, museum, education or editorial use.
Period detail: Visible clues may show a late-1950s living room with patterned blouse, bouffant hairstyle, green upholstered chair, dark wood cabinet, framed wall art and a spinning wheel.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged family interaction as seated adults talk, smile and relax around a table inside a private living room.
What appears in frame: Frames show an elderly woman in glasses, a younger woman at the table, a man in a green armchair, a side cabinet, flowers, framed pictures, a photo album and a spinning wheel.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, dense grain, uneven exposure, handheld framing and saturated color typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a domestic-life insert, memory beat, family-history cutaway or transition into a mid-century interior scene.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for private family life in a furnished American home, with adults gathered informally rather than posing for a formal portrait.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness, privacy and property considerations should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1959 New York family gathering, 1950s living room home movie, 8mm domestic interior and mid-century family conversation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with New York 1959 family interiors, then with broader 1950s home-movie domestic life.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 New York home-movie frame showing adults in a private living room, including a woman in glasses at a table and a man seated in a green armchair. — Family members sit and talk in a mid-century living room.

1959 New York home-movie frame with a younger woman seen from behind while an elderly woman in a pink blouse smiles at the table. — Two women converse at the table while a man sits in the background.

A smiling woman appears in profile during the family gathering.

1959 New York home-movie frame showing two women near a table, a man in a green chair, framed pictures, flowers and a spinning wheel in a private interior. — The camera widens to include the seated man, cabinet and spinning wheel.

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