St Paul Minnesota USA-1962: Unique Home Made Of Glass Bottles

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

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

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Unique Home Made Of Glass Bottles — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from St. Paul, Minnesota, 1962, showcasing a unique house constructed from recycled glass bottles. The clip begins with a view of dense green trees and foliage, then pans right to reveal the distinctive building with its intricate lattice of clear and colored glass bottles set in a concrete frame. The structure features windows with red trim and a modern, creative architectural style. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color saturation, and natural lighting, capturing a rare example of mid-century eco-conscious design and DIY craftsmanship.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120813541

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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: 1962 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.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for archival requests needing early 1960s 8mm footage of unusual handmade domestic architecture or recycled-material building design in a U.S. setting.
Period detail: The red-trimmed windows, concrete grid wall, and saturated 8mm color may show mid-century vernacular experimentation, with the 1962 date supported by supplied metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld pan from dense foliage toward the bottle-wall structure preserves a visitor's curious, observational home-movie perspective rather than a staged architectural survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include leafy trees, shrubs, a concrete lattice wall filled with glass bottles, red window trim, a small flag-like cloth, and soft daylight on the building exterior.
Film character: The clip has pronounced 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld movement that give the architectural view a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, or establishing detail for sequences about reuse, folk architecture, eccentric homes, or mid-century domestic creativity.
Historical context: The footage visually situates recycled glass construction within an everyday residential-looking landscape, but it should not be used to claim broader environmental movements without outside research.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, property context, and the identity or permissions connected to the structure should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches might include 1960s 8mm bottle house, St. Paul Minnesota handmade glass bottle home, recycled glass architecture home movie, and mid-century folk architecture footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1962 St. Paul or Minnesota exteriors, and finally with clips about handmade homes, reuse, craft, or unusual architecture.

Still Frames From This Clip

Handheld 1962 home-movie frame from St. Paul, Minnesota, showing dense trees and shrubs with only a partial view of the bottle-house exterior at the right edge. — Foliage before the bottle house is fully revealed.

The pan reveals more of the St. Paul bottle-house exterior, including a concrete glass-bottle grid, red-trimmed window, and surrounding greenery. — Bottle-wall exterior begins to come into view.

A closer home-movie view of the handmade glass-bottle wall shows red-trimmed windows, a concrete lattice surface, shrubs, and a small flag-like cloth in front. — Glass-bottle lattice wall and window detail.

Final frame of the 1962 St. Paul clip holds on the distinctive glass-bottle house wall, with red-trimmed windows and foliage partly obscuring the exterior. — Distinctive bottle-house facade framed by greenery.

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