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New York-1963: Couple Laughing and Passing a Yellow Bird Figurine by a Lit Fireplace

New York-1963: Couple Laughing and Passing a Yellow Bird Figurine by a Lit Fireplace

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  • Year1963
  • Decade1960s
  • LocationNew York, United States
  • Duration10s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1963 · New York, United States

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What is in this clip

  • Christmas morning
  • gift exchange
  • couples
  • family holidays
  • home life
  • 1960s fashion
  • laughter
Shot type
medium
Camera
handheld · static
Setting
indoor · Private living room with a stone fireplace, mantel and Christmas decorations
Time and weather
morning · winter
Lighting
Warm interior light with firelight from the hearth
People
2 · A dark-haired woman in a gold sleeveless dress with earrings, beaded necklace and bracelet, and a man in a red knit shirt, dark trousers and dark-rimmed glasses, both seated on the floor
Vehicles
bicycle
Objects
yellow bird figurine · red Christmas stocking · stone fireplace · fireplace bucket · bicycle wheel · Christmas cards on mantel · cardboard box · greenery on mantel
Colors
red · gold · yellow-green · dark brown
Master dimensions
3840 × 2160
Audio
Silent
Date confidence
Low
Location confidence
Low

Moments in the footage

  1. 0:00.0The man in the red shirt holds the yellow bird figurine up in the air.
  2. 0:01.5He lowers the figurine into his lap and turns it over while the woman watches.
  3. 0:05.5He hands the figurine across to the woman in the gold dress.
  4. 0:07.5She holds the bird up and both of them laugh.
  5. 0:09.0The man leans down toward a box on the floor.

Couple Laughing and Passing a Yellow Bird Figurine by a... — Clip Details

Likely New York State, circa 1963, home movie footage of a Christmas morning gift exchange beside a lit stone fireplace hung with a red stocking. A man in a red knit shirt and glasses holds up a yellow bird figurine, studies it in his lap, then hands it to a dark-haired woman in a gold sleeveless dress, and both break into laughter. Near the end he leans down toward a box on the floor while she keeps the gift. Filmed in one handheld 8mm medium shot with warm, grainy colour.

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
10s
Price
$149 USD
Clip ID
800000871

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

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
1963 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
New York, 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

  • couple
  • christmas morning
  • yellow bird figurine
  • gift exchange
  • laughter
  • stone fireplace
  • open fire
  • christmas stocking
  • gold sleeveless dress
  • red knit shirt
  • eyeglasses
  • bicycle wheel
  • fireplace bucket
  • living room
  • 1960s home
  • New York USA
  • 1963
  • couple laughing at Christmas gift
  • 1960s Christmas morning home movie
  • 8mm Christmas footage early 1960s
  • man in red shirt opening present
  • woman in gold dress Christmas 1960s
  • yellow bird figurine gift
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  • lit fireplace with Christmas stocking
  • vintage Christmas living room footage
  • circa 1963 family Christmas film
  • New York Christmas home movie 1960s
  • American Christmas morning 1960s
  • early 1960s fashion at home
  • laughing couple vintage film
  • silent 8mm home movie Christmas
  • retro holiday gift opening
  • 1960s suburban Christmas interior
  • cat-eye era Christmas footage
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  • couple sitting on floor opening presents
  • new bicycle under Christmas tree 1960s
  • couples
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  • stockfilm exclusive

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit
Answers a request for authentic early-1960s American Christmas footage showing adults enjoying a gift at home, suited to documentary, education and nostalgic commercial work.
Period detail
The woman's sleeveless metallic sheath dress, bouffant dark hair and beaded necklace, and the man's heavy-rimmed glasses may show early-1960s fashion, alongside a stone fireplace and a black and brass hearth bucket.
Home-movie behavior
The couple are not posing; they react freely to an odd gift, passing it back and forth and laughing as a relative films from a few feet away.
What appears in frame
A man in a red knit shirt, a woman in a gold dress, a yellow bird figurine, a lit stone fireplace, a red stocking on the mantel, a fireplace bucket and a bicycle wheel at frame right.
Film character
Small-gauge 8mm grain, warm yellow-green colour with saturated reds, soft focus at the edges and a gently moving handheld frame give the clip a period home-movie texture.
Edit role
Works as a memory beat or cutaway inside a Christmas sequence, and the burst of laughter makes a natural ending for a gift-opening montage.
Historical context
The scene shows an ordinary domestic Christmas of the period, with adults dressed up, presents opened on the floor and a real wood fire burning in the hearth.
Research note
The film's copyright and the likeness of these identifiable but unnamed people are separate questions, and the private home and the commercially made figurine may raise property or design concerns, so check usage terms before commercial use.
Research search match
Matches searches such as 1960s Christmas home movie, couple opening presents by fireplace, 8mm holiday footage, vintage gift exchange and early 1960s home interior.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with this reel's 'Couple unwrapping gifts by the fire', 'Christmas stocking over a lit fireplace' and 'Boy shows off new ice skates', then with its World's Fair footage, then with other early-1960s Christmas clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Man in red shirt shows a yellow bird figurine to a woman in a gold dress beside a lit fireplace, likely New York, circa 1963

A man in a red knit shirt looks over a yellow bird figurine on Christmas morning, circa 1963.

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Man studies a yellow bird figurine gift in his lap beside a woman in a gold dress at a stone fireplace, circa 1963 Christmas

The man studies the bird figurine in his lap while the woman beside him watches.

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Couple pass a yellow bird figurine between them by a lit hearth on Christmas morning, likely New York, circa 1963

The man hands the yellow bird figurine across to the woman in the gold dress.

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Woman holds up a yellow bird figurine while a man in a red shirt laughs by a lit stone fireplace, Christmas circa 1963

Both laugh as the woman holds up the bird figurine by the fire.

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