New York USA-1958: Green Plants Growing Beside Residential Building

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

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Green Plants Growing Beside Residential Building — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures lush green plants growing beside a light-colored building with a window. The footage shows dense foliage, including tall leafy stems and broad-leafed bushes, swaying gently in a quiet residential setting. The image has the characteristic grain, color fading, and slight blurriness of mid-century home movies, with natural daylight illuminating the scene. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of suburban horticulture 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: 123041821

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.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s New York home-movie requests needing a quiet residential plant or garden cutaway for documentary, educational, or editorial context.
Period detail: The light siding, simple window, and domestic planting bed may show mid-century residential landscaping, though the visible details are not enough to identify a specific neighborhood.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, lingering on foliage beside a house rather than presenting a formal garden or public landmark.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include leafy plants, tall stems, dense shrubs, a pale exterior wall, a window, hard vertical frame edges, and daylight shadows.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, faded green-blue color, uneven exposure, and contact-frame borders that reinforce its home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, seasonal transition, domestic memory beat, or quiet exterior cutaway between family or neighborhood scenes.
Historical context: The footage offers a modest view of private residential greenery in late-1950s New York without showing people, signage, vehicles, or identifiable civic context.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but the building exterior and landscaping should still be reviewed for property and copyright considerations.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 8mm New York home movie plants, residential garden cutaway, vintage house exterior window, and mid-century foliage footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1958 New York home-movie exteriors, and then with broader vintage garden or residential plant scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New York 8mm frame showing dense greenery beside a light-colored building wall, with soft focus and dark contact-sheet edges. — Plants grow along a pale residential exterior wall in soft daylight.

1958 New York home-movie frame with dense shrubbery against a pale wall, showing heavy shadow, faded color, and 8mm softness. — Dense greenery fills the right side of a pale building exterior.

1958 New York 8mm frame showing a window, pale siding, and thick leafy plants in a residential exterior scene. — A window and thick plant growth appear along the side of a house.

1958 New York home-movie frame with blurred greenery beside a light building wall, showing grain, faded color, and contact-sheet framing. — Soft-focus foliage stands beside a pale exterior wall near the end of the clip.

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