Minnesota USA-1958: Five Puppy Spaniels Wag Their Tails And Roll And Play In

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Minnesota

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Five Puppy Spaniels Wag Their Tails And Roll And Play In — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1958: Five puppy spaniels play energetically in a sun-drenched backyard, tumbling and rolling on the grass. The 8mm home movie captures their playful antics with natural motion and vintage film grain. In the background, a red swing set and leafy bushes frame the scene, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American childhood. The puppies, with their brown, white, and black markings, exhibit joyful, carefree behavior under bright daylight.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124862917

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1958 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Minnesota, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: Useful for 1950s American home-movie requests needing backyard pet play, domestic leisure, or animal cutaways from real 8mm family footage.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century backyard details including open grass, leafy shrubs, and a simple metal swing set, consistent with the supplied 1958 Minnesota metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in unstaged puppy behavior as several spaniel-like dogs tumble, lie down, sit up, and shift around while the home camera observes from a fixed distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include five puppies or young dogs, patchy backyard grass, scattered leaves, a red swing set, shaded bushes, bright daylight, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, mild exposure variation, and contact-sheet gate edges that give the backyard action a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, animal cutaway, or transition into domestic life, childhood spaces, or pet ownership in a 1950s setting.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary outdoor family-yard life rather than a formal event, with pets occupying the frame and no visible people, signage, or commercial setting.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any property-context concerns before reuse.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Minnesota 8mm home movie puppies, spaniel puppies playing in backyard, vintage pet footage, and mid-century American family yard animals.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Minnesota 1958 home-movie material, and finally with vintage backyard, pets, childhood, or domestic-life themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1958 Minnesota backyard, spaniel-like puppies tumble and rest on grass with a red swing set partly visible behind them. — Puppies gather on the grass during backyard play.

Spaniel-like puppies play in a Minnesota backyard, with one dog rolling on its back and others sitting or leaning close by. — One puppy rolls over as the group stays close together on the lawn.

Five spaniel-like puppies spread across a 1958 Minnesota yard, some lying in the grass while one stands facing the camera. — The puppies pause from play, scattered across the grass.

The backyard group settles into a quieter pose, with several spaniel-like puppies lying down and others sitting nearby on the grass. — The group settles on the grass near the end of the short clip.

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