Blainsport Pennsylvania USA-1962: Man Plants A Tree In Suburban Backyard

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationBlainsport, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Man Plants A Tree In Suburban Backyard — Clip Details

A shirtless man in white shorts plants a young tree in a suburban backyard during a sunny day in 1962. The vintage 8mm film captures him using a shovel to dig and secure the sapling, with a single-story house and a wheelbarrow visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a warm, nostalgic tone characteristic of mid-century home movies. The man’s focused effort and the quiet residential setting evoke a sense of domestic pride and mid-century Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121291056

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: 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: Blainsport, Pennsylvania, 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 home-movie requests needing suburban yard work, tree planting, domestic landscaping, or mid-century residential life in Pennsylvania.
Period detail: The single-story house, open yard, wheelbarrow, white shorts, and hand tools may show early-1960s suburban home landscaping and warm-weather domestic routines.
Home-movie behavior: The clip captures an unstaged adult concentrating on planting a young tree, with casual body language and a family-film viewpoint from the yard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a shirtless man, white shorts, a young tree, shovel, wheelbarrow, dry lawn, low house, fence or rail, and leafy branches.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, color fading, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, domestic cutaway, seasonal transition, or memory beat about home ownership and yard care.
Historical context: The footage shows private residential landscaping as a quiet domestic activity, without enough visual evidence to support broader local or social claims.
Research note: An adult person and residential property are visible, so likeness and property considerations should be reviewed separately from film copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1962 8mm backyard tree planting, Pennsylvania suburban home movie, man gardening, mid-century yard work, and domestic landscaping footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Blainsport or Pennsylvania 1962 material, then broader 1960s home gardening and suburban family-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Blainsport, Pennsylvania, 1962, a shirtless man in white shorts works near a newly planted tree in a suburban yard. — A man steadies himself near the sapling while working in a sunny backyard.

The man works beside the young tree in a 1962 suburban Pennsylvania backyard, with a low house and wheelbarrow behind him. — The backyard scene shows the man leaning near the sapling with a house in the background.

A shirtless man bends near the sapling during yard work in Blainsport, Pennsylvania, in 1962, framed by home-movie film grain. — The man bends toward the planting area beside the young tree.

The final frame shows the man reaching near the sapling in a sunny 1962 Pennsylvania backyard, with a house and trees beyond. — The man reaches toward the planting area as the sapling stands in the foreground.

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