New York USA-1959: The View Of A Giant White House And A Big Garage And Gardens

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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

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The View Of A Giant White House And A Big Garage And Gardens — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a suburban house in New York with a large white exterior, a prominent garage, and a manicured front yard. The footage shows a quiet residential scene with a well-kept lawn, small shrubs, and a driveway leading to an open garage. The camera pans slowly across the facade, revealing large windows, a front door, and a covered porch. The image has the characteristic grain, color fade, and soft focus of mid-century home movies, evoking a nostalgic, everyday moment from the late 1950s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123044239

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 1101 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: north pole,game farm,amusement park, reel 2
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1959 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 requests needing late-1950s suburban New York residential exteriors as documentary inserts, neighborhood context, or domestic establishing footage.
Period detail: The low ranch-style white exterior, broad picture windows, open garage, clipped lawn, and small foundation shrubs may show mid-century suburban home design.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, lingering on a house facade, garage, driveway, and yard without visible people or performed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white house exterior, large multi-pane windows, an open garage, driveway, lawn, porch rail, shrubs, and exterior lights.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color fade, gate edges, and exposure variation consistent with home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, residential cutaway, transition between family scenes, or memory beat for suburban domestic life.
Historical context: The footage documents a quiet residential exterior and landscaped yard, offering visual context for mid-century American suburban home environments.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are visible or indicated, but copyright, property depiction, and location identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 8mm New York suburban house exterior, mid-century home movie garage, white ranch house, and residential lawn footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 New York residential clips, then broader mid-century suburban exterior footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 8mm frame of a white suburban New York house facade with a broad front window, low shrubs, lawn, and visible film gate edges. — White house facade with large front window and landscaped lawn.

1959 8mm view of a suburban New York house garage standing open beside a driveway, lawn, small shrubs, and pale exterior siding. — Open garage and driveway beside a manicured front lawn.

1959 8mm frame showing the house corner between an open garage and front window, with driveway, shrubs, and lawn in view. — House corner connecting the open garage and front window area.

1959 8mm view of a suburban New York house facade with a front door, porch railing, large multi-pane window, shrubs, and lawn. — Front door, porch rail, and large window on the white house facade.

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