New York USA-1964: Older Men Playing Bowls In The Back Garden

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 New York

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Older Men Playing Bowls In The Back Garden — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1964 showing a group of older men playing bowls in a suburban backyard. The scene unfolds on a grassy lawn bordered by a row of small green plants, with a light-colored house and trees in the background. Men in casual summer attire—shorts, t-shirts, and plaid shirts—take turns rolling the bowls, their movements captured with the characteristic grain and color shift of aged film. The handheld camera follows the action, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American leisure and community life.

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: 121504360

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 1070 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: worlds fair
Reel-level year note: 1964-1965
Reel-level location note: new york city
Date: 1964 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 requests needing 1960s American home-movie material of older men in casual backyard recreation for documentary, education, or social-history edits.
Period detail: The casual summer clothing, 8mm color stock, suburban lawn, and low house in the background support a mid-1960s American home-movie setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves unstaged leisure as older men take turns rolling bowls and watching one another in a relaxed backyard gathering.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include older men, lawn bowls, a mown grass yard, a row of small plants, a light-colored house, trees, and a handheld home-movie viewpoint.
Film character: Soft focus, faded color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing give the footage a clear original 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, or cutaway for mid-century recreation, retirement, neighborhood life, or family archive sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents informal outdoor recreation among older adults in a suburban yard, with domestic surroundings visible but no specific event identified.
Research note: People and faces are visible, so likeness and privacy review may be needed; copyright and property questions should be assessed separately from the film scan.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1960s 8mm home movie older men playing lawn bowls, backyard recreation, suburban leisure, and vintage American family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with 1964 New York home movies, and finally with other backyard games or older-adult leisure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 New York home-movie frame showing older men playing bowls on a suburban backyard lawn with houses and trees beyond. — Older men gather on the lawn as one player prepares near the bowls.

Older men in summer clothing continue a bowls game on a grass lawn, with a low house and trees in the background. — Players watch the next roll across the backyard grass.

Close backyard view of older men measuring or picking up bowls near a row of plants and a green-sided house. — Several players bend toward the bowls near the edge of the lawn.

End frame of the 1964 backyard bowls scene, with older men walking on the lawn beside a green-sided suburban house. — Players shift positions after a turn in the backyard game.

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