Massachusetts-1959: Man in Sunglasses and Woman Eat Lunch at an Open-Air Harbourside Table

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationMassachusetts, United States
Duration10s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 · Massachusetts, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1959 · Cape Cod & Massachusetts · Reel 61a7fb31 contains 15 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

outdoor dining
summer vacation
seaside leisure
mid-century fashion
harbour life
family travel
shared meal

Shot type: medium
Camera: static · handheld
Setting: outdoor · covered open-air restaurant terrace overlooking a harbour with moored sailboats, a rock breakwater and a white clapboard building
Time and weather: midday · summer · sunny and clear
Lighting: bright sunlight from behind the diners with deep shadow in the foreground
People: 3 · A man in sunglasses, dark blazer and red checked open-collar shirt; a woman with short dark hair in a red-and-green patterned blouse; a third diner partly visible at the far left.
Vehicles: moored sailboats
Objects: restaurant table · plates of food · teal pot · green glass · napkin-lined basket · white chairs · terrace posts · rope railing
Colors: deep blue · black · white · red · green
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The woman turns from her plate and smiles toward the camera.
The man in sunglasses looks up toward the camera while eating.
The woman glances back at the camera with a smile.
Both diners bend over their plates and keep eating.
The woman lifts food with her fork as the man eats across the table.

Man in Sunglasses and Woman Eat Lunch at an Open-Air... — Clip Details

Likely Cape Cod, Massachusetts, circa 1959 home movie footage. A man in sunglasses, a dark blazer and a red checked shirt sits across a table from a woman in a red-and-green patterned blouse on a covered open-air terrace, and both eat lunch beside a teal pot and a napkin-lined basket. Behind them are moored sailboats, a rock breakwater and a white clapboard building. The single handheld shot stays nearly still as both diners glance toward the camera and the woman smiles.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 800001823

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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: Massachusetts, 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 summer vacation footage, especially a seaside meal for documentaries on postwar leisure and New England travel.
Period detail: A dark blazer worn over an open-collar checked sport shirt, sunglasses, a short set hairstyle and the saturated colour stock may show late-1950s leisure dress and film.
Home-movie behavior: The diners keep eating while the woman turns to smile and the man looks up, an unposed moment of a shared vacation lunch filmed from across the table.
What appears in frame: A woman in a patterned blouse, a man in sunglasses and a blazer, a table with plates, a teal pot and a napkin basket, white chairs, moored sailboats and a white clapboard building beyond.
Film character: Strong blue rendering of the water, backlit figures with crushed shadow in the foreground, soft focus and fine grain give the clip the texture of projected small-gauge colour film.
Edit role: Works as a memory-beat insert or a closing cutaway for a vacation sequence, following beach or harbour establishing shots.
Historical context: Open-air dining beside a sailboat harbour reflects the coastal summer holidays that families recorded on home movie film in this period.
Research note: The diners are unidentified and their faces are recognisable, so likeness permissions are separate from film copyright, and the unnamed restaurant is private property.
Research search match: 1950s waterfront restaurant lunch, Cape Cod vacation 8mm home movie, couple dining by harbor vintage colour film, late 1950s summer leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's catboats in the harbour, Blue jay at bird feeder and Family picnic lunch in a cottage yard, then other Massachusetts coast footage circa 1959, then period dining scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Man in sunglasses looks up from lunch at an open-air harbourside table, likely Cape Cod, Massachusetts, circa 1959 — A man in sunglasses and a dark blazer looks toward the camera while a woman in a patterned blouse eats at a harbourside table, circa 1959.
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Woman smiles at the camera during a waterfront lunch, man in sunglasses opposite, likely Cape Cod, circa 1959 — The woman turns from her plate with a smile as the meal continues above the moored boats, circa 1959.
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Two diners eat lunch on a covered terrace over a sailboat harbour in Massachusetts, circa 1959 8mm home movie — Both diners turn to their food on the shaded terrace, with a white clapboard building across the water, circa 1959.
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Woman eats with a fork across from a man in sunglasses at an open-air waterfront table, likely Cape Cod, circa 1959 — The woman lifts a forkful as the man in sunglasses eats, another diner partly visible behind them, circa 1959.
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