Palm Springs California-1953: White House with Colorful Flowers in 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.

Year1953
Decade1950s
LocationPalm Springs, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1953 California

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

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White House with Colorful Flowers in Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1953, this vintage home movie captures a white stucco house with a terracotta tile roof nestled in a lush garden in Palm Springs, California. The scene features vibrant pink and white flowering bushes in the foreground, a tall palm tree on the left, and dense green trees surrounding the property. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, saturated colors, and a distinctive blue-purple tint in the sky, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American suburban atmosphere.

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: 123350584

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 1398 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1953
Reel-level location note: california
Date: 1953 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: Palm Springs, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Palm Springs exterior cutaways, especially projects needing home-movie views of stucco architecture, gardens, and sunny California residential settings.
Period detail: The terracotta roof, white stucco facade, arched porch, and lush ornamental planting may show mid-century desert resort architecture in Palm Springs.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, observing the property from across a flowered garden without staging, people, or visible activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white stucco building, terracotta tile roof, arched porch openings, flowering shrubs, palm trunk, dense trees, blue sky, and dark film gate edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows coarse grain, saturated garden colors, slight softness, blue-purple sky cast, and contact-print framing that preserves the home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, architectural transition, or quiet exterior beat in a 1950s California sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a landscaped Palm Springs exterior environment, with resort-like planting and stucco architecture visible but no identifiable event or occupants.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright, property, and location identification should still be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Searches for 1953 Palm Springs 8mm garden exterior, white stucco house with flowers, mid-century California home movie, and vintage desert architecture may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1953 Palm Springs exteriors, then broader 1950s California gardens, stucco buildings, and travel-home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1953 Palm Springs home-movie frame showing a white stucco building beyond flowering shrubs, with a palm trunk at left and dark film edges. — White stucco building seen beyond a dense garden of flowers and trees.

1953 Palm Springs frame of a white stucco building with arched porch openings above bright flowering shrubs and surrounding trees. — White building and arched porch partly screened by flowering garden beds.

1953 Palm Springs home-movie view centering a white stucco house with tile roof, arched openings, flower beds, and tree cover. — Centered view of the stucco building behind low flowering shrubs.

1953 Palm Springs frame showing the white stucco building, tile roof, arched porch, dense garden plantings, and dark 8mm frame edges. — Garden-framed exterior of the white stucco building with visible film borders.

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