United States-1974: Older Couple Unwrapping a Small Gift Beside a Lighted Bar Lamp

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationUnited States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1974 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1974 · Guerrero & United States · Reel 4a449857 contains 2 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

gift giving
dinner party
1970s fashion
home entertaining
older couples
celebration
domestic life

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld
Setting: indoor · domestic dining room during an evening gathering
Time and weather: evening
Lighting: artificial indoor movie light, warm and bright on the faces with a dark background and a glowing lamp globe
People: 2 · An older woman in glasses and a red floral print top with a draped neckline, and an older man in glasses, a light blue shirt and a wide navy patterned tie; the edge of a third person in yellow is at the left in the opening frames.
Objects: globe lamp lettered BAR · liquor bottle · white bottle with red cap · cellophane-wrapped present · red ribbon · green and blue wavy wrapping paper · brown paper bag · white bowls · eyeglasses · necktie
Readable signs: BAR
Colors: red · warm yellow · light blue · green · dark brown
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The man holds up a small cellophane-wrapped present as the woman smiles.
He lifts it higher and talks while turning it in his hand.
He reaches forward over the table with the present.
He sets it down beside a white bottle as the woman looks on.

Older Couple Unwrapping a Small Gift Beside a Lighted... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1974, home movie footage shows an older couple seated at a dinner table during an evening gathering. A smiling woman in glasses and a red floral print top looks on as a man in a light blue shirt and wide patterned tie holds up a small cellophane-wrapped present tied with red ribbon, talks, and sets it down on the table. A glowing globe lamp lettered BAR, a liquor bottle, a white bottle and green wavy wrapping paper fill the foreground. It is one handheld Super 8 shot, warm-toned and grainy.

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: 800000769

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$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: 1974 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: 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: Serves requests for authentic 1970s American home entertaining, showing an older couple exchanging presents at a dinner table, for documentaries, family history films and period montages.
Period detail: The bold red floral top, wide patterned tie, large-framed glasses, wavy patterned wrapping paper and a novelty BAR lamp may all point to the mid-1970s.
Home-movie behavior: The couple talk and smile naturally while handling a present, an unposed moment caught by a family member across the table rather than a staged portrait.
What appears in frame: An older woman in a red print top, a man in a blue shirt and wide tie, a cellophane-wrapped present with red ribbon, a glowing BAR globe lamp on a bottle, a white bottle and green wavy wrapping paper.
Film character: Warm, saturated Super 8 colour under indoor movie light, with visible grain, soft focus and a slightly drifting handheld frame that read as genuine home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as a memory beat or domestic cutaway inside a sequence about family celebrations or 1970s home life.
Historical context: The scene reflects home entertaining of the period, and a gift book titled 'Beat the Energy Crisis' elsewhere in the gathering nods to the fuel shortages after the 1973 oil embargo.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from the likeness of the two identifiable adults, who are unnamed, and from the private home shown; product labels are unreadable, so assess likeness and any brand use per project.
Research search match: Matches searches such as 1970s dinner party home movie, Super 8 couple opening presents, vintage gift exchange footage and seventies fashion at home.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's parasailer descending to the beach, then with other circa 1974 American family interiors, then with gift-giving and celebration footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Older couple at a dinner table in the United States, circa 1974, the man holding a wrapped present beside a glowing BAR lamp — A man holds up a small cellophane-wrapped present while the woman beside him smiles, circa 1974.
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Man in a 1970s wide tie raising a wrapped present at a home dinner party in the United States, circa 1974 — He lifts the present higher and talks; a lighted lamp lettered BAR glows in the foreground.
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Older man reaching across a cluttered dinner table with a present during a 1970s evening gathering, United States — The man reaches forward over the table with the present, mid-sentence.
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Couple at a 1970s American dinner table, circa 1974, the man setting a present down among bottles and wrapping paper — He sets the present down among the bottles as the woman looks on.
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