Minnesota USA-1958: Two Small Suburban Houses

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

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Two Small Suburban Houses — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban backyard in Minnesota. Two modest houses stand side by side, one with a light-colored exterior and a small porch, the other a darker structure with a slanted roof. A wooden fence and bare trees suggest a late autumn or early spring setting. The grainy, slightly faded image with visible scratches and film wear enhances its nostalgic, archival quality. The scene is still, with no visible people or movement, evoking a sense of everyday life from mid-century America.

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: 124863652

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 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 Minnesota suburban home-movie requests needing a quiet backyard, modest houses, fencing, bare trees, and everyday residential atmosphere.
Period detail: The small houses, simple fence line, bare trees, and soft 8mm exposure may show mid-century residential surroundings in a colder-season Minnesota neighborhood.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a domestic backyard viewpoint, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie record of ordinary houses and yard space rather than a composed property view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two small houses, a wooden fence, bare tree branches, yard ground, a darker outbuilding or porch area, and faint human figures near the fence.
Film character: The clip has soft focus, light flicker, visible scratches, muted color, and contact-frame jitter that read as physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a residential cutaway, memory beat, neighborhood insert, or transition into a 1950s domestic-life sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for modest suburban housing and backyard space in Minnesota without identifying the families, exact town, or property history.
Research note: People are flagged as visible and private residential property may be identifiable, so likeness, privacy, and property concerns should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Minnesota 8mm home movie backyard, 1950s suburban houses, vintage residential neighborhood, and mid-century fence and bare trees.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Minnesota residential footage, then broader 1950s suburban backyard or neighborhood scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Minnesota 8mm frame showing two small suburban houses, a fence, bare trees, and faint people near the yard edge. — Two modest houses and a fenced backyard appear through soft, worn 8mm film texture.

1958 Minnesota home-movie frame of adjacent small houses, a slanted-roof structure, fence posts, bare branches, and faint people. — A quiet residential yard holds two small structures, fencing, and bare trees.

1958 Minnesota 8mm view of a backyard with two modest houses, a fence line, bare trees, and indistinct people by the fence. — The camera remains on the same backyard view with houses, fencing, and indistinct figures.

1958 Minnesota home-movie still showing a light-colored house, darker side structure, fence, bare trees, and faint people in the yard. — A final frame repeats the quiet backyard composition with houses, trees, fence, and faint figures.

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