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Iran-1972: Illuminated Christmas Tree and Lake in Garden

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  • Year1972
  • Decade1970s
  • LocationIran
  • Duration5s
  • Collection1972 · Iran
  • StatusDirect License

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Illuminated Christmas Tree and Lake in Garden — 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)
License
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Delivery
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Duration
5s
Payment
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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

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 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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Topics & Keywords

  • garden
  • lake
  • christmas tree
  • small
  • calm
  • christmas
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  • holidays
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  • 1972
  • 1972 Iran home movie
  • vintage 8mm film
  • Christmas tree lights
  • garden at night
  • calm lake
  • holiday footage
  • retro film
  • nostalgic clip
  • archival footage
  • festive garden
  • Iranian holiday
  • 1970s home movie
  • vintage Christmas
  • garden scene
  • night footage
  • film grain
  • warm lights
  • peaceful scene
  • historical footage

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.

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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.

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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.

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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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