Wellsburg Iowa-1965: A Person Playing Fetch With Their Pug.

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

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A Person Playing Fetch With Their Pug — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wellsburg, Iowa, 1965, showing a light-colored pug playing fetch on a grassy yard at night. The dog runs across the lawn, its face illuminated by a flash, while a person in yellow shorts and a light shirt stands nearby, interacting with the pet. The clip captures the playful bond between owner and dog in a nostalgic, grainy Super 8 style with natural film grain and dark outdoor lighting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorNight
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120821623

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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: 1965 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s United States home-movie requests needing a brief domestic pet-play scene, especially as an archival insert for family life, companion animals, or small-town yard activity.
Period detail: The light shirt, yellow shorts, white slip-on shoes, flash-lit night lawn, and 8mm home-movie texture may show mid-1960s casual backyard recreation.
Home-movie behavior: The footage captures an unstaged person-and-pet interaction as the pug runs, turns, and stays close to the person during a nighttime game of fetch.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a light-colored pug, a person’s legs and casual clothing, white shoes, dark grass, flash-lit patches of lawn, and heavy black frame borders from the film scan.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, high-contrast flash exposure, soft focus, dark outdoor falloff, and slight handheld framing that give it recognizable home-movie archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, memory beat, or transition for stories about pets, family yards, 1960s leisure, or affectionate domestic routines.
Historical context: The scene visually reflects informal home filming of everyday pet ownership and yard play rather than a public event or identifiable civic setting.
Research note: A person is partially visible, so likeness review may be relevant, while no visible logos, children, private interiors, or clear property identifiers appear in these frames; copyright and likeness clearance should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1960s 8mm pug playing fetch, vintage home movie dog in yard, Wellsburg Iowa pet footage, and nighttime family lawn scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other Wellsburg, Iowa 1965 home movies, then with broader 1960s pet, yard, and family-life material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A light-colored pug runs across a flash-lit grassy lawn in Wellsburg, Iowa home-movie footage from 1965. — Pug running across the night lawn.

The pug stands near a partially visible person in yellow shorts and white shoes on a dark grassy yard in the 1965 Wellsburg, Iowa home movie. — Pug beside a person on the lawn.

The pug faces a partially visible person standing on a grassy yard, with the dog and clothing caught in flash-lit 8mm footage from 1965 Wellsburg, Iowa. — Dog looking toward the person.

A light-colored pug lowers its head or turns on the grass near a person’s white shoe in the nighttime 1965 Wellsburg, Iowa home-movie scene. — Pug turning near the person’s shoe.

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