United States-1959: Guests in Tuxedos and Dark Dresses Drinking and Smoking at a Table

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationUnited States
Duration9s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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What is in this clip

celebration
formal wear
social drinking
smoking
mid-century American life
adult gathering
conversation

Shot type: medium
Camera: pan · handheld
Setting: indoor · Party room or interior with a cut-stone wall, a wooden door and a table set with drinks
Time and weather: unknown (indoor artificial light)
Lighting: Warm indoor artificial light with a yellow cast
People: 4 · Two adult women, one in a black dress and one in a green top with a small decorated hat, and two adult men in tuxedos with boutonnieres, one with glasses and one balding
Objects: coupe glasses · tumblers · beer bottle · ashtray · cigarettes · napkins · table · boutonnieres · earrings · wooden door
Colors: olive · black · dark green · amber · white
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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A woman in a black dress sits beside a man in glasses and a tuxedo with a boutonniere.
The camera pans to a woman in green smoking as the woman in black lifts a glass.
A balding man in black tie with a white boutonniere smiles and talks.
The woman in green sits behind a coupe glass and a beer bottle.
The camera returns to the woman in black and the man in glasses at the table.

Guests in Tuxedos and Dark Dresses Drinking and Smoking... — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1959, home movie footage shows two women and two men in formal clothes seated at a table against a cut-stone wall. The camera pans from a woman in a black dress and a man in a tuxedo with a boutonniere to a woman in a green top smoking a cigarette, then to a smiling balding man in black tie, and back again. Coupe glasses, tumblers, a beer bottle, an ashtray and napkins crowd the table. It is a single handheld 8mm shot in warm, yellow-toned colour.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: InteriorHandheld
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: 9s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000972

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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: 1959 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 late-1950s American footage of adults in formal wear drinking and smoking at a party, for social history, fashion or tobacco documentaries.
Period detail: Tuxedos with boutonnieres, small decorated women's hats, dark dresses, coupe glasses and open cigarette smoking all point to the late 1950s.
Home-movie behavior: Guests chat, smoke and reach for drinks without posing, and only the balding man reacts to the camera with a passing smile.
What appears in frame: A woman in green smoking under a small hat, a woman in black holding a glass, two men in tuxedos with boutonnieres, a beer bottle, coupe glasses and an ashtray against a stone wall.
Film character: Warm yellow-toned 8mm colour with soft focus, visible grain and handheld drift gives the clip an intimate home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as a period cutaway or memory beat inside a party or celebration sequence, or as a short insert on mid-century smoking and drinking.
Historical context: The clip shows adults smoking and drinking openly at a formal gathering, which is how many American home movies of the period record social occasions.
Research note: The film's copyright is separate from the likeness rights of the identifiable adults, who are unnamed, and a commercial use that implies endorsement or a link to tobacco or alcohol may need extra review.
Research search match: Researchers may search for 1950s cocktail party footage, vintage people smoking indoors, man in tuxedo with boutonniere, or 8mm home movie formal celebration.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with this reel's 'Men in ties laughing at a party' and 'Young women in cat-eye glasses laughing', then with other United States party footage from circa 1959, then with drinking and smoking scenes from the period.

Still Frames From This Clip

Woman in a small hat smoking while a woman in black lifts a glass at a party table, United States, circa 1959 — A guest in a green top smokes as another in a black dress raises her glass, circa 1959.
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Smiling man in black tie with a white boutonniere next to a woman in a small hat, 8mm home movie, circa 1959 — A man in a tuxedo with a white boutonniere smiles beside a guest in green.
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Woman in a decorated hat and earrings seated behind drinks at a late-1950s party in the United States — A guest in a green top and small hat sits behind her drinks against a stone wall.
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Woman in a black dress and a man in glasses and black tie at a stone-walled party table, circa 1959 — A woman in black reaches across the table beside a man in glasses wearing a boutonniere, circa 1959.
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