United States-1960: Girls in Cone Party Hats Around a Blue-Frosted Birthday Cake

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationUnited States
Duration2s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1960–1961 · United States · Reel c963ae9d contains 10 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

birthday party
childhood
family celebration
domestic life
mid-century America
party traditions

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · pan
Setting: indoor · home kitchen with birthday table
Time and weather: day
Lighting: indoor artificial light, warm and slightly underexposed
People: 5 · Four young girls in teal cone party hats with white ruffled bands, one in a dark plaid dress with a white collar, one in a navy dress with a white collar, one with a red hair clip seen from behind, one in a purple top, plus an adult hand at the table edge.
Objects: blue-frosted birthday cake · birthday candles · cone party hats · drinking glasses · paper plates · party favors · second frosted cake · rounded pale kitchen appliance · blue curtain
Colors: teal · blue · dark green · white · red
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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Children in cone hats sit around a blue-frosted cake as an adult hand reaches in.
A girl in a plaid dress leans over her plate at the table.
She raises a hand to her party hat as the camera pans right.
Two more girls in teal hats come into view against a blue curtain.

Girls in Cone Party Hats Around a Blue-Frosted Birthday Cake — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1960, home movie footage of a children's birthday party at a kitchen table. Girls wearing teal cone hats with white ruffled bands sit around a blue-frosted cake set with thin candles, glasses and paper plates. A girl in a dark plaid dress with a white collar leans over her plate, then touches her hat as the handheld camera drifts right toward a blue curtain. A second frosted cake stands on a pale appliance against the green wall behind.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 2s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800001101

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.

Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: Yes
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1960 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: Fits requests for authentic circa 1960 American home birthday party footage for documentaries, museum pieces and nostalgia segments.
Period detail: Crepe-trimmed cone hats, white Peter Pan collars on dark dresses and a rounded pale appliance may show typical domestic style of around 1960.
Home-movie behavior: Children are caught mid-party, eating and fussing with their hats rather than posing, the way a parent filmed from beside the table.
What appears in frame: A blue-frosted cake with thin candles, girls in teal cone hats, a girl in a plaid dress, glasses of drink, a second cake on an appliance, a green wall and a blue curtain.
Film character: Colour 8mm with soft focus, visible grain, rich teal and blue rendering and a handheld drift that gives the shot an intimate home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as a quick memory beat or cutaway inside a sequence about childhood, birthdays or family life.
Historical context: Home birthday parties with cake, candles and matching paper hats were a common family ritual recorded on amateur film in this period.
Research note: Identifiable minors appear in a private home; the film copyright and the likeness of the people shown are separate questions, and likeness consent is not established here.
Research search match: Researchers might search vintage 8mm birthday party, girls in party hats 1960s, or blue birthday cake home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with 'Girl putting on a paper party hat' from the same reel, then its Easter and Christmas clips, then other circa 1960 birthday party footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Circa 1960 home birthday party in the United States, girls in cone hats around a blue-frosted cake as an adult hand reaches in — A child in a navy dress looks toward the camera while a girl in plaid leans over the blue cake.
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Circa 1960 8mm film still of a girl in a plaid dress and cone hat bent over her plate at a US kitchen birthday table — A girl in a plaid dress and teal cone hat bends over her plate beside the blue-frosted cake.
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Circa 1960 American birthday party, a girl adjusts her cone hat while two more hatted guests sit before a blue curtain — The girl in plaid reaches up to her hat as more guests in teal party hats come into view.
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Circa 1960 colour home movie still of three girls in ruffled cone hats at a birthday table in a US home kitchen — Three girls in matching ruffled cone hats eat at the table, with the blue cake at lower left.
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