United States-1940: Wedding Passengers Smiling Inside a Ribbon-Decorated Car

Catalog date: estimated · Catalog location: estimated. Review source evidence · Request a source quality check

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only. $149 flat from Stockfilm for documentary, news and educational use, plus internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Year1940
Decade1940s
LocationUnited States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1940 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Before you add to cart: 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. Checkout will only offer editorial, educational, internal and social/web scopes.

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Explore this year and place

Compare featured footage, popular clips and the full collection.

Same year and place1940 · United StatesExplore footage →Across the archiveFilmed in 1940Explore the year →Across the yearsUnited StatesExplore the place →

What is in this clip

wedding celebration
ceremonial transport
social gathering
formal dress
automobile culture
personal memory

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · Frontal view across the hood toward the passengers, slightly above windshield level
Setting: outdoor · Crowded wedding gathering outside a timber-sided building
Time and weather: daytime · indeterminate · Dry conditions with direct sunlight
Lighting: Strong natural sunlight with deep shade behind the guests and bright vehicle reflections
People: 22 · Approximately twenty-two people are visible, including seated passengers and a partially obscured crowd wearing dark suits, coats, dresses and hats; a smiling woman inside the car wears a light headpiece.
Vehicles: Rounded period automobile with a divided windshield
Objects: blue decorative ribbons · flowers · divided windshield · windshield wipers · steering wheel · reflective automobile hood · formal hats · timber siding · building windows · entrance steps
Colors: black · cream · brown · blue · warm gold
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

0:00.0The decorated car fills the foreground beneath a crowd of formally dressed guests.
0:01.0The woman in the light headpiece faces forward and smiles through the windshield.
0:03.0The seated passengers turn their heads while guests shift behind the roof.
0:05.4A closer view emphasizes the smiling woman, flowers and blue ribbon.

Wedding Passengers Smiling Inside a Ribbon-Decorated Car — Clip Details

In the United States, circa 1940 home movie footage shows wedding passengers seated inside a ribbon-decorated car, with formally dressed guests gathered behind it. A smiling woman wearing a light headpiece sits beside a man in a dark suit, while another occupant is visible near the steering wheel. The frontal view holds on the divided windshield, flowers and reflective hood as the passengers turn their heads and the framing shifts slightly closer.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800004253

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: 1940 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

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

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

wedding car
wedding passengers
ribbons
flowers
guests
formal clothing
headpiece
dark suits
hats
divided windshield
vintage automobile
smiling
timber building
colour home movie
United States
1940
ribbon decorated wedding car
wedding passengers smiling through windshield
United States wedding home movie
circa 1940 wedding car footage
vintage automobile with wedding ribbons
wedding guests behind decorated car
colour home movie wedding passengers
formal guests outside timber building
woman wearing light wedding headpiece
flowers inside vintage wedding car
divided windshield wedding car scene
American wedding gathering circa 1940
projected film wedding car footage
historic wedding transport home movie
frontal view decorated wedding automobile
smiling passengers in vintage car
wedding crowd wearing formal hats
archival colour wedding gathering footage
small gauge wedding home movie
circa 1940 American automobile interior
wedding celebration
ceremonial transport
social gathering
formal dress
automobile culture
personal memory
1940s home movie
stockfilm exclusive

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This circa 1940 United States wedding scene suits documentary requests for decorated automobiles, formal guests and expressive home movie passengers.
Period detail: The rounded roof, divided windshield, dark formal hats and light wedding headpiece support a period around circa 1940.
Home-movie behavior: Passengers smile and turn toward the camera while guests behind them shift position and raise their hands.
What appears in frame: The view contains a reflective hood, divided windshield, blue ribbons, flowers, seated passengers and formally dressed guests against timber siding.
Film character: Warm colour, soft detail, visible grain and strong sunlight retain the texture of small-gauge film recorded from projection.
Edit role: Use the continuous frontal view as a wedding transport insert or a brief emotional beat between outdoor portraits and celebration scenes.
Historical context: The decorated vehicle and guests in formal clothes show an automobile incorporated into a wedding gathering in the United States around circa 1940.
Research note: Visible faces and the building raise likeness and property considerations separate from film copyright; no readable logo or artwork is apparent.
Research search match: The scene answers searches for circa 1940 American wedding home movies, ribbon-decorated cars and smiling passengers filmed through a windshield.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's outdoor wedding attendants, then other United States scenes from circa 1940, followed by wedding transport and guest gatherings.

Still Frames From This Clip

In the United States, circa 1940, wedding passengers sit behind a divided windshield beneath blue ribbons, with formally dressed guests outside a timber building. — Wedding passengers face the camera across a reflective hood decorated with blue ribbons.
License this still · $49

Wedding passengers in the United States, circa 1940, smile behind a ribbon-decorated windshield while a crowd in formal hats gathers behind the roof. — A suited passenger and a woman in a light headpiece sit behind flowers and a blue ribbon.
License this still · $49

A woman in a light headpiece and a suited man sit in a decorated automobile in the United States, circa 1940, with guests crowded behind them. — The divided windshield frames the seated passengers beneath a crowd of wedding guests.
License this still · $49

In the United States, circa 1940, a closer frontal view shows smiling wedding passengers, flowers and blue ribbon above the automobile's reflective hood. — The closer framing emphasizes the passengers' expressions and the wedding decorations.
License this still · $49

Visually Similar Clips

United States-1940: Wedding Passengers Smiling Inside a Ribbon-Decorated Car

Catalog date: estimated · Catalog location: estimated. Review source evidence · Request a source quality check

Year1940
Decade1940s
LocationUnited States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1940 · United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

$149 · Editorial onlyDirect license: editorial use only

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Explore this year and place

Compare featured footage, popular clips and the full collection.

Same year and place1940 · United StatesExplore footage →Across the archiveFilmed in 1940Explore the year →Across the yearsUnited StatesExplore the place →

Same year and place

In the collection: 1940 · United States

255 clips from this year and place. A sample of the footage:

Browse this collection →