Wheeling Ohio-1957: Festive Dinner Table with Cake and Holiday Wreath

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationWheeling, Ohio, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Wheeling Ohio

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Festive Dinner Table with Cake and Holiday Wreath — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this grainy home movie captures a festive dinner table setting in Wheeling, Ohio. The table is laden with a variety of dishes including a fruit salad, tarts, and a large cake, all arranged around a central holiday wreath adorned with red candles and a bow. Glassware, cups, and a bottle are scattered across the table, with warm lighting casting a nostalgic glow over the scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and a soft focus, evoking a sense of intimate family celebration from the mid-20th century.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127278427

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: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1957 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Wheeling, Ohio, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s domestic holiday dining, family celebration, or mid-century food-table cutaways in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The tabletop decor may show a mid-century holiday meal, with red taper candles, a frosted wreath centerpiece, glassware, plated desserts, and serving bowls.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie view of a prepared dinner table before or during a family gathering, with no people visible in the sampled frames.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red candles, a white wreath centerpiece, glass tumblers, cups, a serving bowl of salad, plated pastries, a large decorated cake, and a bottle at the table edge.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, heavy grain, uneven exposure, dark frame edges, and handheld framing that give the table scene clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a cutaway, holiday insert, family-memory beat, or transition into a 1950s domestic celebration sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects home entertaining and holiday table presentation in a private Wheeling, Ohio setting, based on the provided clip metadata and visible decor.
Research note: No people are visible, but private-property context and a partially visible bottle label or packaging should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1957 8mm holiday dinner table, Wheeling Ohio home movie, mid-century family meal, vintage candles and desserts, and 1950s domestic footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1957 Wheeling home movies, and then with broader holiday dining or mid-century family interior footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Wheeling, Ohio home-movie frame showing a holiday dinner table with glassware, serving bowls, desserts, and red candles in soft 8mm focus. — A decorated dinner table with desserts, glassware, and red candle centerpiece.

Holiday table detail from 1957 Wheeling, Ohio footage, centered on red candles, a frosted wreath, glassware, a serving bowl, and a partly visible bottle. — Red candles and a frosted wreath centerpiece sit among serving dishes and glasses.

1957 Wheeling, Ohio home-movie frame showing a holiday dining spread with candles, wreath decor, glassware, a cake, pastries, and a small labeled bottle. — A cake and pastries sit near a candle centerpiece on a crowded holiday table.

Soft 8mm frame from 1957 Wheeling, Ohio showing a festive table with cake, pastries, red candles, frosted wreath decor, cups, and glassware. — The camera lingers on cake, pastries, glassware, and the red candle centerpiece.

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