California USA-1952: A Scene Of Water And The Wind Moving Lilly Pads

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Year1952
Decade1950s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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

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A Scene Of Water And The Wind Moving Lilly Pads — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1952, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil garden pond in California. Lush green lily pads float on the water's surface, gently disturbed by ripples from a light breeze. A white park bench sits quietly in the background, framed by manicured bushes and trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with a distinct blue tint and soft focus, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American atmosphere. This archival clip offers authentic period footage for documentaries, editorial projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123339654

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 1234 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: miss universe
Reel-level year note: 1952
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1952 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: California, 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 1950s California 8mm garden-pond cutaway for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences needing quiet mid-century outdoor atmosphere.
Period detail: The scene may show a maintained public or garden setting with a bench, pond edge, planted beds, and period cars faintly visible beyond the water.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on an unstaged pond view, reflecting a home-movie interest in scenery, travel, and small natural movement rather than a posed event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue-tinted pond water, lily pads, ripples, a low planting strip, a white bench, shrubs, trees, and distant parked cars.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, mild gate darkness, blue-biased color, and slight frame instability that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm insert, travel-memory transition, nature cutaway, or establishing detail between broader 1950s California scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers a modest view of mid-century leisure landscaping and scenic observation without showing people, signage, or a confirmed landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private-property identifiers are visible, but copyright, location, and property-context review should remain separate.
Research search match: Search phrases include 1952 California 8mm pond, vintage home movie lily pads, mid-century garden bench, and wind ripples on water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same New Orleans to Pacific trip reel, then other 1952 California outdoor scenes, then broader 1950s garden or water cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1952 California 8mm frame showing a garden pond with lily pads, blue water, a planted border, and a bench beyond the pond edge. — Lily pads and wind-ruffled pond water with a bench and planting beds behind.

1952 California 8mm view of lily pads on a garden pond, with rippled water, low plantings, benches, and trees in the background. — Ripples move across a blue-tinted pond bordered by lily pads and garden beds.

1952 California 8mm frame with lily pads and rippled pond water in front of a landscaped path, bench, shrubs, and distant parked cars. — A landscaped pond scene holds on lily pads, water movement, and a bench beyond the edge.

1952 California 8mm frame showing a close pond edge with lily pads, blue water, a garden bench, shrubs, and shaded trees beyond. — Lily pads cluster near the pond edge while the camera looks toward a bench and garden plantings.

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