United States-1962: Smiling Woman in Glasses Walks Toward Camera on a Columned Hotel Veranda

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration7s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1962 · New Jersey & Bedford Springs · Reel c7a481e6 contains 5 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

resort vacation
mid-century fashion
hotel guests
candid portrait
leisure travel
convention gathering
family home movie

Shot type: mixed
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: outdoor · Covered veranda of a white clapboard resort hotel with tall white columns, screen door and sash windows
Time and weather: day · spring · overcast or shaded
Lighting: soft natural daylight in porch shade, cool blue-green cast
People: 6 · An adult woman with dark curled hair, dark-framed glasses and a white blouse printed in blue and green; an older woman in a straw hat in the foreground; a seated man in a dark suit; several older men in light and dark suits standing behind.
Objects: white columns · clapboard wall · screen door · sash windows · straw hat · dark handbag · folded light-coloured garment · eyeglasses
Colors: white · blue-green · teal · navy · cream
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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She stands smiling by a doorway as a guest in a straw hat passes in the foreground.
She moves past the white columns while men in suits stand along the wall.
She walks straight toward the camera, grinning.
A laughing close-up as she clutches a folded light garment.

Smiling Woman in Glasses Walks Toward Camera on a... — Clip Details

At a columned resort hotel, probably in the eastern United States, circa 1962 home movie footage shows a woman in dark-framed glasses and a white blouse with a blue-green print smiling by a doorway on a white clapboard veranda. A guest in a straw hat passes in the foreground and men in suits stand behind as she walks past the porch columns toward the camera. The single handheld 8mm shot follows her into a laughing close-up as she clutches a folded light-coloured garment.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
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: 7s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000960

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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: 1962 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: Answers requests for early-1960s American leisure travel, showing a cheerful guest at a columned resort hotel for documentaries, fashion histories and nostalgic montages.
Period detail: Her bouffant-style curls, dark upswept glasses and printed shirt-collar blouse, plus suited older men and a straw hat, may show early-1960s resort dress.
Home-movie behavior: She laughs and walks right up to the camera, an unposed moment between someone filming and a companion who knows them.
What appears in frame: A smiling woman in glasses and a printed blouse, a guest in a straw hat, a seated man in a dark suit, men in suits by a clapboard wall, tall white columns and a screen door.
Film character: Handheld 8mm colour with a cool blue-green porch shade, fine grain, soft edges and bright highlights on the white columns.
Edit role: Works as a memory beat or character cutaway, and the walk into close-up makes a natural transition into a personal story.
Historical context: Suited men gathered on a resort veranda reflect the hotel conventions and group holidays common among middle-class Americans in the early 1960s.
Research note: The film is a private home movie whose copyright is separate from the likeness rights of the identifiable, unnamed people shown and from any rights in the hotel building, so permissions should be assessed for each use.
Research search match: Researchers may search for '1960s woman laughing 8mm home movie', 'vintage resort hotel veranda', 'early 1960s cat-eye glasses footage' or 'hotel convention guests circa 1962'.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's guests walking past 1950s cars, the Bedford Springs sign and hotel, and the railway bridge in a river gorge, then with other early-1960s resort footage, then with candid home-movie portraits.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1962 8mm still of a smiling guest by a screen door on a white columned resort veranda in the eastern United States — A guest smiles beside the open doorway while a woman in a straw hat and a seated man in a dark suit wait on the veranda.
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Smiling woman passing tall porch columns at a resort hotel, men in suits behind her, early-1960s home movie — She walks past the columns as two men in suits talk by the clapboard wall.
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Grinning guest in dark-framed glasses approaches the camera on a resort veranda, circa 1962 color 8mm film — Grinning, she heads straight for the camera with the hotel windows behind her.
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Close-up of a laughing woman in cat-eye glasses at a columned resort hotel, early-1960s 8mm home movie portrait — The shot ends on a laughing close-up as she holds a folded garment to her shoulder.
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