Cleveland Ohio USA-1953: Lady In Shirt Watering Her Grass With A Water Hose In

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Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationCleveland, Ohio, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Cleveland Ohio

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Lady In Shirt Watering Her Grass With A Water Hose In — Clip Details

A vintage 1953 home movie clip from Cleveland, Ohio, showing a woman in a short-sleeved shirt and light blue skirt watering her grass with a hose in a backyard. The scene features a wooden fence, green lawn, and a strong purple color cast typical of 8mm film from the era. The woman smiles as she sprays water, her figure slightly blurred in motion. The footage displays authentic film grain, color degradation, and subtle camera shake, capturing a nostalgic moment of domestic life in the 1950s.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120768641

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1953 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: Cleveland, Ohio, 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: This 1953 Cleveland 8mm home-movie clip helps illustrate mid-century American domestic yard life for documentary, education, museum, or period-context edits.
Period detail: The woman's short-sleeved top, light skirt, backyard lawn, garden hose, and wooden fence may show ordinary early-1950s residential leisure or household maintenance.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged backyard moment as the woman waters the grass and appears aware of the camera while moving through the spray.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman with a hose, streams of water, green grass, a wooden fence, bright sunlight, shadowed yard areas, and a light blue skirt.
Film character: The 8mm scan has visible grain, soft focus, motion blur, handheld framing, uneven exposure, and a strong purple color shift that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, domestic-life insert, seasonal yard-work beat, or memory transition within a 1950s home and neighborhood sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for postwar everyday household routines without showing identifiable landmarks, public events, or commercial branding.
Research note: A woman is visible and may be personally recognizable despite blur, so likeness review is advised separately from copyright, with no logos or audible music indicated.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s Cleveland home movie, 8mm woman watering lawn, backyard garden hose footage, and mid-century domestic yard scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1953 Cleveland home-movie material, and then with related backyard, gardening, lawn, or domestic-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Cleveland home-movie frame showing a woman in a short-sleeved shirt and light skirt watering grass beside a wooden fence. — Woman waters a backyard lawn with a hose.

1953 Cleveland backyard frame with a woman in a light skirt holding a hose while water arcs across the lawn. — Water sprays across the grass near a fence.

Soft 8mm frame from Cleveland in 1953 showing a woman watering a backyard lawn with a visible hose stream and fence behind her. — Side view of backyard watering.

1953 Cleveland 8mm frame showing a woman standing near the right edge of the frame as she waters grass beside a wooden fence. — A hose stream crosses the backyard frame.

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