Illinois USA-1962: Newly Planted Tree In Suburban Front Yard

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

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Newly Planted Tree In Suburban Front Yard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban scene in Illinois. The camera pans slowly across a modest brick house with white-trimmed windows and a small porch. A newly planted young tree stands in the front yard, surrounded by green grass and a simple bench. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural lighting, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American neighborhood. The frame edges show the characteristic dark border of 8mm film, enhancing its authentic archival feel.

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: 123719441

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 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

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: Suits documentary and editorial projects needing mid-century American suburban residential imagery for 1960s domestic life, postwar neighborhood growth, or landscape montage sequences.
Period detail: The red brick house with white-trimmed double-hung windows and style of outdoor lawn furniture are consistent with early-1960s Midwestern residential architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The slow pan across the front yard to document a newly planted sapling suggests personal pride in a recent landscaping milestone, a characteristic home-movie impulse.
What appears in frame: Red brick house facade, white-trimmed double-hung windows, a slender young deciduous sapling, a mature evergreen at frame right, a white lawn chair, a green front lawn, and dark 8mm film borders.
Film character: The footage carries a cool blue-purple color cast from aged film stock, visible grain, slight edge vignetting, and dark 8mm frame borders that lend it genuine archival texture.
Edit role: Works as an establishing insert or transitional cutaway in documentary sequences on 1960s suburban life, postwar housing expansion, or mid-century American domestic settings.
Historical context: The footage may reflect rapid suburban growth in the early-1960s Midwest, when homeowners routinely documented new plantings and property improvements on 8mm home-movie film.
Research note: No identifiable people appear; the brick house is a visible private residential property that may require consideration depending on use and jurisdiction; no logos or public figures present.
Research search match: Researchers may query '1960s suburban house 8mm,' 'mid-century American front yard,' 'early 1960s Illinois home movie,' or 'postwar neighborhood residential film.'
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other clips from the same reel or Illinois location; then 1960s Midwestern suburban exteriors; then mid-century domestic or neighborhood home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

8mm home movie frame, c.1962 Illinois: red brick suburban house with a newly planted young tree in a green front yard and a white lawn chair at left. — Young sapling in front of brick house, early 1960s Illinois.

8mm film frame, c.1962 Illinois: slow pan reveals red brick house, a slender sapling at center, and a large mature evergreen tree entering from the right edge. — Pan reveals young sapling and mature evergreen beside suburban brick house, Illinois c.1962.

8mm home movie, c.1962 Illinois: mid-pan frame showing large mature evergreen at left, young planted sapling at center, and brick house porch entry at rear. — Mid-pan: evergreen and sapling frame the suburban porch, c.1962 Illinois.

8mm film frame, c.1962 Illinois: end of slow pan showing mature evergreen beside the young planted sapling, brick house behind, outdoor chairs at lower left. — End of yard pan: mature evergreen beside new sapling, Illinois c.1962.

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