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Massachusetts-1949: Man Drinks Beer At Outdoor Social Gathering

  • Year1949
  • Decade1940s
  • LocationMassachusetts, United States
  • Duration6s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1949 Massachusetts
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Man Drinks Beer At Outdoor Social Gathering — Clip Details

A man in a white short-sleeved shirt drinks from a glass bottle of beer at a casual outdoor gathering in Massachusetts, 1949. The 8mm home movie footage captures him in a relaxed moment, with a house roof and green trees visible in the background. The scene shifts to show other guests, including a woman in a light dress seated and a man in a light shirt standing near a vintage car with its hood open. The film exhibits natural grain, slight overexposure, and authentic color shifts typical of 1940s home movies, conveying a nostalgic, candid atmosphere of mid-century American social life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format
8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details
Exterior
Resolution
4K Digitally Restored
License
Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery
Instant Digital Download
Duration
6s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
127648452

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 record not linked for this clip
Date
1949 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
Massachusetts, 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.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Useful for 1940s Massachusetts home-movie requests needing a brief social-gathering insert, leisure cutaway, or everyday American domestic-life moment.
Period detail
The clip may show late-1940s clothing, a glass beer bottle, a pitched house roof, leafy yard setting, and a dark vintage car with its hood open.
Home-movie behavior
The value is in the unstaged casual behavior: a man drinks from a bottle while others stand and sit nearby during an outdoor visit.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a man in a white short-sleeved shirt, glass bottle, house roof, trees, seated woman, standing men, open car hood, and shaded yard.
Film character
The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, handheld framing, mild overexposure, and color shifts consistent with scanned mid-century home movies.
Edit role
An editor could use it as a short insert, transition, or memory beat for postwar leisure, backyard visiting, or informal adult social life.
Historical context
The scene provides visual context for a casual Massachusetts gathering in 1949 without identifying the people, exact town, occasion, or property.
Research note
People and recognizable faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed in addition to copyright or source-license checks.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1949 Massachusetts 8mm home movie, man drinking beer outdoors, vintage backyard gathering, and mid-century social visit.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then Massachusetts 1949 material, then broader 1940s outdoor gatherings or leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1949 Massachusetts home-movie footage, a man in a white shirt drinks from a glass bottle near a house roof and trees.
A man drinks from a bottle during an outdoor gathering.
A man in a light short-sleeved shirt stands in soft focus outdoors in the 1949 Massachusetts home-movie scene.
A man stands in the yard between drinking shots.
The man raises the bottle higher while drinking, framed against sky, roofline, and yard greenery in the home-movie footage.
The drinking gesture continues in a close outdoor frame.
Adults stand and sit near a dark vintage car with its hood open during the 1949 Massachusetts outdoor gathering.
Guests gather beside a car with its hood raised.

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