Iran-1972: A Small Lake Garden With Christmas Trees

Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationIran
Duration5s
Collection1972 Iran

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A Small Lake Garden With Christmas Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil garden scene in Iran. The footage begins with a view of a large Christmas tree adorned with glowing yellow lights, seen through a window. The camera pans slowly across the garden, revealing a calm lake, lush greenery, and a building with large windows in the background. The warm, nostalgic glow of the lights contrasts with the dark night, creating a peaceful holiday atmosphere. The grainy texture and soft focus are characteristic of Super 8 home movie footage from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
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Duration: 5s
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Clip ID: 124331971

Rights & Clearance

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

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1431 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: longwood gardnes,xmas
Reel-level year note: 1972-1977
Reel-level location note: iran,philadelphia
Date: 1972 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: Iran 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: Useful for 1970s Iran archive requests needing a quiet holiday garden exterior, night cutaway, or home-movie memory beat without visible people.
Period detail: The lit Christmas trees, large windowed building, and small landscaped water feature may show a decorated garden or hotel-like public setting in Iran in 1972.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, looking through or past a window frame while the camera slowly observes the illuminated garden at night.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include glowing Christmas tree lights, dark window or film-strip borders, large building windows, garden shrubs, railings, a small lake or pond, and pale flowers.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, low-light exposure, slight blur, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short night insert, holiday atmosphere transition, exterior establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat in a 1970s sequence.
Historical context: The footage places Christmas-style lighting within an Iranian garden setting, offering cautious visual context for seasonal decoration and leisure spaces in the early 1970s.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property permissions should be checked before commercial use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1972 Iran 8mm home movie garden, Christmas lights at night, small lake garden, holiday decorations, and vintage Iranian exterior footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Iran 1972 exteriors, and then broader 1970s holiday-light or garden-at-night home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Iran 8mm frame showing illuminated Christmas trees in a dark garden, viewed through a window-like foreground. — Christmas tree lights glow in a dark garden setting.

1972 Iran home-movie frame with holiday lights among garden trees and a large windowed building in the background. — Holiday lights appear among trees near a windowed building.

1972 Iran 8mm frame showing a dim landscaped garden with bright building windows and a small lake or pond edge. — A dim garden and water feature sit below bright windows.

1972 Iran home-movie frame with a dark garden water feature, scattered lights, shrubs, and pale flowers in the foreground. — The camera settles on a dark water feature bordered by shrubs and flowers.

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