Las Vegas Nevada-1957: Garden Pond with Stone Border and Fountain

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationLas Vegas, Nevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Nevada

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Garden Pond with Stone Border and Fountain — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil garden pond with a stone-lined edge and lush greenery. A small fountain or water feature flows gently, surrounded by natural rocks and leafy plants. The warm, slightly faded color palette and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, mid-century American backyard scene. The camera moves slowly, revealing the pond's curved stone border and the gentle movement of water. This archival footage offers a peaceful glimpse into mid-20th century domestic landscaping and leisure, perfect for historical documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-specific visuals.

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: 123476390

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 1569 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: memorial day,rita's film
Reel-level year note: 1957
Reel-level location note: las vegas
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: Las Vegas, Nevada, 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: Supports requests for 1950s Las Vegas home-movie garden or domestic landscaping footage for documentary inserts, period ambience, or mid-century leisure context.
Period detail: The stone pond border, leafy planting, and adjacent stucco or masonry structure may show mid-century residential or resort-style landscaping in Las Vegas.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor or family-camera perspective, lingering on moving water, rocks, and greenery rather than on people or posed activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small pond, stone edging, leafy plants, a fountain stream, masonry wall texture, dark water, and a pale structural ledge.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, saturated greens, uneven exposure, gate shadowing, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm cutaway, garden insert, transition beat, or visual pause within a 1950s Las Vegas or domestic leisure sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents landscaped water and planted stonework as a visual trace of mid-century outdoor leisure spaces without showing people or identifiable activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any property-related uses should still be reviewed before publication.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1957 Las Vegas 8mm garden pond, vintage home movie fountain, mid-century landscaping, stone water feature, and greenery cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1957 Las Vegas material, and then with other vintage garden, pond, fountain, or leisure cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Las Vegas 8mm frame showing a stone-bordered pond, dense green planting, and part of a pale exterior structure. — Stone edging and greenery surround a small pond near a building edge.

1957 Las Vegas home-movie frame with a curved rock border, green foliage, and dark water catching small highlights. — A curved stone border frames plants and rippling pond water.

1957 Las Vegas 8mm frame showing dark pond water, irregular stonework, a lily pad, and a small fountain stream near masonry. — A small fountain stream falls into the stone-lined pond.

1957 Las Vegas frame showing a pale ledge, textured stone wall, narrow dark water, and a light rock border at the edge of the pond. — A pale ledge and stonework appear above the dark pond channel.

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