Normal Illinois USA-1957: Two Women Watching Garden Hose Spray Water in Backyard

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationNormal, Illinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Two Women Watching Garden Hose Spray Water in Backyard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures two women in a suburban backyard. One woman in a white blouse and black skirt stands barefoot on a lush green lawn, watching a garden hose spray water across the grass. Another woman in a patterned dress appears in the background near a classic 1950s car. The scene, filmed with a handheld camera, shows natural movement and the characteristic grain of Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American domestic moment.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123450400

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 2302 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: tw ross
Reel-level year note: 1957
Reel-level location note: morton illinois
Date: 1957 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: Normal, Illinois, 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: This 1957 8mm home-movie clip supports mid-century American domestic-life requests needing a brief backyard lawn and garden-hose moment with visible adults.
Period detail: The suburban lawn, 1950s clothing, handheld 8mm look, and parked mid-century car may show postwar residential leisure in Normal, Illinois.
Home-movie behavior: The women appear to watch an unattended hose spray across the grass, giving the scene an informal, mildly comic home-movie observation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two women, a green backyard lawn, a spraying garden hose, shrubs, a house exterior, sidewalk, and a parked 1950s car.
Film character: The clip has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short domestic insert, suburban transition, backyard cutaway, or memory beat about everyday summer chores.
Historical context: The scene offers a small view of 1950s suburban outdoor space and casual adult presence without supporting broader claims about the household.
Research note: People are visible, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and any property concerns should be assessed separately before use.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1957 8mm backyard hose, Normal Illinois home movie, two women on lawn, and 1950s suburban garden footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1957 Normal, Illinois material, then related 1950s backyard or domestic-lawn scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1957 Normal, Illinois backyard scene, a barefoot woman in a white blouse and dark skirt watches a hose spray across the lawn. — A woman stands barefoot on the grass as water sprays from a garden hose.

The hose sends water across the grass as the woman stands at the edge of frame in the 1957 backyard home-movie scene. — Water sprays from a hose across the lawn with the woman partly in frame.

Two women stand in a suburban yard in Normal, Illinois, with a spraying hose on the grass and a mid-century car in the background. — Two women watch the hose spray water across the backyard lawn.

The closing frame shows two women in a 1957 Normal, Illinois yard watching a hose spray across the grass, with a parked car behind them. — Two women stand together as the hose continues spraying across the lawn.

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