Paramus New Jersey-1959: Woman Wearing Pearls and Boy Eating Salad

Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationParamus, New Jersey, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Paramus New Jersey

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Woman Wearing Pearls and Boy Eating Salad — Clip Details

A dimly lit 8mm home movie from 1959 captures a quiet family moment in Paramus, New Jersey. A woman wearing a pearl necklace and a dark dress is seen in close-up, her face partially obscured by shadow. A young boy in a blue and white checkered shirt sits beside her, focused on a bowl of salad. The grainy, low-light footage shows a hand using tongs to serve vegetables, with a green salad and a dark bowl visible. The intimate, candid scene evokes a sense of nostalgia and domestic life from the late 1950s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127288016

Rights & Clearance

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 1097 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: christening kids
Reel-level year note: 1959-1959
Reel-level location note: new jersey
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: Paramus, New Jersey, 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.

View source reel context Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s domestic-life requests needing brief 8mm family dinner or gathering footage from Paramus, New Jersey.
Period detail: Pearl necklace, dark dress, checkered shirt, tableware and salad service may show late-1950s family dining style.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged closeness of relatives seated at a table while a boy eats and a hand serves food.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in pearls, a boy in a checkered shirt, salad greens, serving tongs, bowls, plates and dim interior light.
Film character: The clip has a grainy low-light 8mm look with soft focus, deep shadows, muted color and handheld home-movie framing.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, memory beat or domestic cutaway in a sequence about family meals or postwar home life.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for mid-century private family gatherings without identifying the people or household beyond supplied metadata.
Research note: People, faces and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property review may be needed separate from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Paramus New Jersey home movie, 1950s family dinner, woman wearing pearls, boy eating salad and 8mm domestic footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1959 Paramus material, then broader 1950s family meal or indoor gathering clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1959 Paramus home-movie footage, a woman wearing pearls sits close to the camera in shadow at an indoor gathering. — Woman wearing a pearl necklace sits in low light during a family gathering.

A hand uses yellow serving tongs over salad greens in dim 1959 Paramus home-movie footage. — Serving tongs hover over a bowl of salad at the table.

A boy in a blue checkered shirt sits at a crowded indoor table in 1959 Paramus home-movie footage. — Boy in a checkered shirt sits close to adults at the table.

The boy leans over food at the table as an adult hand appears nearby in the dim 1959 Paramus interior. — Boy leans toward his food during the family meal.

Visually Similar Clips