New York USA-1958: A View Of A Dry Garden Bed With Purple Crocuses And A Yellow Flower

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

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A View Of A Dry Garden Bed With Purple Crocuses And A... — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from 1958 captures a close-up view of a dry garden bed in New York, USA. Purple crocuses and a single yellow flower bloom amidst bare soil and sparse green shoots, their delicate petals contrasting with the cracked earth. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows natural light casting shadows and reveals the grainy texture and soft focus characteristic of Super 8 home movies. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of early spring in an urban backyard.

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: 123042517

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 brief seasonal garden cutaway for documentary, museum, education, or period lifestyle edits.
Period detail: The visible clues are limited to small spring flowers, bare soil, and a nearby masonry wall, which may show an urban or backyard garden setting in the 1950s.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes low, close views of flowers without staging or people, giving the clip the quiet attention of a home gardener or family member filming seasonal growth.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include purple crocuses, one yellow flower, bare dry soil, sparse green leaves, plant stems, shadows, a masonry wall, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and contact-print framing that preserve the texture of scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a spring insert, domestic-memory cutaway, garden transition, or quiet visual pause between broader New York or family-life scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers a modest view of domestic outdoor space, showing early spring flowers rather than public landmarks or identifiable social activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are evident, but copyright, location, and any property context should still be reviewed before licensing.
Research search match: Searches that may match include 1958 New York 8mm garden, vintage home movie crocuses, spring flowers dry soil, and 1950s backyard nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1958 New York material, then with home-movie clips of gardens, spring flowers, or domestic exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 New York 8mm frame showing purple crocuses, bare soil, sparse stems, and a masonry wall in soft focus. — Purple crocuses grow in a dry garden bed near a masonry wall.

1958 New York 8mm frame with a yellow flower, purple crocuses, green leaves, dry soil, and dark film borders. — A yellow flower stands near purple crocuses in the dry bed.

1958 New York 8mm frame showing clustered purple crocuses, dry soil, green shoots, and strong outdoor shadows. — Clusters of purple crocuses sit low in the dry garden bed.

1958 New York 8mm frame with purple crocuses, green leaves, bare soil, small twigs, and visible film-frame edges. — Purple crocuses spread across the sunlit soil at the end of the clip.

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