Illinois USA-1962: Elderly Woman in Garden with Yellow Flowers and Lake

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationIllinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Illinois

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Elderly Woman in Garden with Yellow Flowers and Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures an elderly woman standing in a sun-dappled garden at a lakeside location in Illinois. She wears a patterned, short-sleeved dress and smiles gently as wind rustles the surrounding foliage. Bright yellow daylilies and purple flowers bloom in the foreground, while trees frame the scene and a calm lake stretches into the distance. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight color fading, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory from the early 1960s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 123719142

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 2325 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: glenn t evans
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: moline illinois
Date: 1962 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: 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Fills 1960s Midwest Americana domestic-life briefs — a personal lakeside garden moment suits documentary b-roll, memory sequences, or social-history segments on postwar rural life.
Period detail: The woman's patterned short-sleeved housedress with ruffle-collar detail and the early Kodachrome-era color palette are consistent with early 1960s American home-movie fashion.
Home-movie behavior: A family member filmed a matriarch in her own garden, capturing her relaxed stance and gentle expression — an unguarded, affectionate portrait rather than a posed studio image.
What appears in frame: Elderly woman in patterned dress, bright yellow daylilies in foreground, purple flowering shrubs, large dark tree trunks framing scene, wind-stirred green foliage, calm lake, pale blue sky.
Film character: Soft 8mm grain, mild color shift toward warm pastels, slightly soft peripheral focus, and natural-light variation give the footage an intimate hand-held documentary texture.
Edit role: Works as a memory beat or transitional insert in personal-history or generational documentary segments; the static-yet-living garden scene allows a clean cut-in and cut-out.
Historical context: Lakeside home gardens with daylilies were common in Illinois residential settings in the early 1960s; the housedress style reflects everyday domestic clothing of that era.
Research note: An identifiable adult woman is visible in all frames; likeness rights cannot be assumed — assess editorial versus commercial use and seek documentation before licensing commercially.
Research search match: Likely found via queries such as '1960s elderly woman garden 8mm,' 'vintage lakeside Illinois home movie,' or 'early 1960s outdoor domestic family scene.'
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel or Illinois 1962 submission; then Midwest lakeside domestic footage from the 1960s; then garden or family scenes from the same decade.

Still Frames From This Clip

Elderly woman in patterned housedress posed in a lakeside garden with yellow daylilies and purple blooms, Illinois circa 1962, 8mm home movie. — Woman in lakeside garden — Illinois, c. 1962.

Elderly woman smiling gently in a sun-lit lakeside garden, yellow daylilies in foreground, Illinois circa 1962 8mm home movie. — Woman amid daylilies, lakeside garden — c. 1962.

Elderly woman in floral housedress in windswept lakeside garden, yellow daylilies prominent, Illinois circa 1962, filmed on 8mm. — Wind-stirred garden moment — lakeside Illinois, c. 1962.

Final frame of elderly woman in lakeside garden, 8mm color footage with visible grain, natural light, Illinois circa 1962. — Garden portrait close — lakeside Illinois, c. 1962.

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