New York USA-1958: White House and Red Garden

$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.

Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

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

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

White House and Red Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban scene in New York. The footage begins with a close-up of a garden bed featuring red flowers and green foliage, then pans upward to reveal a white house with dark shutters and a covered porch. The camera moves steadily, showing the exterior of the modest home with its classic mid-century design, including large windows and a raised foundation. The image has a soft, grainy quality with faded colors typical of 8mm film, evoking a nostalgic, everyday moment from the late 1950s.

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: 123041777

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 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1958 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.

View source reel context Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

garden
house
flowers
red
white
nature
new york USA
1958
1958 home movie footage
vintage 8mm film
New York USA 1958
suburban house exterior
red flowers garden
8mm home movie
classic American house
mid-century architecture
archival footage
nostalgic home movie
vintage film
1950s family life
old film grain
documentary style
retro home footage
American nostalgia
outdoor garden scene
8mm film footage
vintage family memories
1950s suburban life

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s New York suburban home-life requests needing a brief exterior house and garden cutaway for documentary or editorial use.
Period detail: The white house, dark shutters, screened porch, raised foundation and simple garden may show mid-century residential styling visible in the supplied 1958 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera studies a familiar yard and house exterior in an unstaged home-movie manner, moving from flowers toward the porch and windows.
What appears in frame: Visible details include red flowers, lawn, shrubs, a white house, dark shutters, screened porch windows, foundation shadow and soft yard edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, faded color, mild grain, exposure drift and handheld framing that preserve the texture of a late-1950s home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a residential insert, neighborhood transition, memory beat or quiet exterior cutaway within a 1950s domestic sequence.
Historical context: The clip provides a modest visual record of suburban domestic space, with attention on landscaping and house frontage rather than identifiable people or public events.
Research note: No people, children, logos or music are evident, but copyright status and any property-identification concerns should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm New York house exterior, 1950s suburban garden, vintage home movie porch, and mid-century residential cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 New York exteriors, then broader 1950s home, garden and suburban-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New York home-movie frame showing red flowers, lawn and part of a residential exterior in soft 8mm color. — Red flowers and lawn appear at the start of the house-and-garden view.

1958 New York frame of a white residential exterior with dark shutters, shrubs and a grass lawn. — The camera reveals the side of the white house with shutters and foundation plantings.

1958 New York home-movie view of a screened porch corner, tall windows and dark shutters on a white house. — A closer view centers on the porch corner and tall shuttered windows.

1958 New York frame showing screened porch windows, white siding, raised foundation shadow and grass beneath the house. — The final frame holds on the screened porch and raised foundation area.

Visually Similar Clips