Nebraska-1958: Young Man Grooming His Hair in Mirror

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNebraska, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Nebraska

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Young Man Grooming His Hair in Mirror — Clip Details

A young man in a white t-shirt stands before a mirror in a 1958 Nebraska home, grooming his hair with his hands. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the intimate, everyday ritual in a room with vintage floral wallpaper and wood trim. The warm, slightly faded colors and natural film grain evoke authentic mid-century Americana. This home movie clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into personal grooming routines of the era, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127612185

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 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: Nebraska, 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 Nebraska home-movie requests needing an intimate domestic grooming moment for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The white undershirt, wall mirror, floral wallpaper, wood trim, and small home interior may show mid-century domestic style visible in the 1958 metadata context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip records an unstaged private routine as a young man adjusts his hair in a mirror, giving editors a quiet everyday behavior rather than a posed portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a young man in a white t-shirt, wall mirror, floral wallpaper, wood door trim, interior shadows, and a brief adjacent exterior farm-equipment view.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, warm faded color, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that support its home-movie archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, memory beat, domestic-life cutaway, or transition into themes of youth, appearance, family interiors, or mid-century routine.
Historical context: The footage shows a private household grooming ritual and suggests how casual self-presentation could be recorded within family home movies of the period.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property considerations may remain separate from any copyright or footage licensing review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Nebraska 8mm home movie, young man grooming hair, mirror domestic interior, mid-century bathroom or bedroom routine, and vintage family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other 1958 Nebraska home interiors, then with related grooming, youth, mirror, and everyday family-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1958 Nebraska home interior, a young man in a white t-shirt faces a wall mirror beside floral wallpaper and wood trim. — A young man stands close to a wall mirror while grooming his hair.

The young man adjusts his hair with both hands in front of a mirror, with floral wallpaper and wood trim visible around him. — Hands raised, the man checks his hair in the mirror.

From behind, the young man keeps both arms raised as he works on his hair in a modest 1958 Nebraska home interior. — The grooming action continues from a rear view in the wallpapered room.

A brief exterior frame shows a man on yellow machinery near a red outbuilding, likely from the same 1958 Nebraska home-movie reel. — The contact sheet cuts briefly to an exterior view with farm equipment and an outbuilding.

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