Iowa USA-1959: Dark Tulips with Faust Sign

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationIowa, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Iowa

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Dark Tulips with Faust Sign — Clip Details

IOWA USA-1959: A vibrant 8mm home movie clip captures a sun-drenched tulip garden in full bloom. Rows of dark purple and red tulips dominate the foreground, with a white marker labeled 'FAUST' clearly visible. In the background, other colorful flower beds and a residential house with a porch are seen, with a few people strolling through the garden. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse into a mid-century American springtime scene.

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: 124865774

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 1319 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: iowa
Date: 1959 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: Iowa, 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: Useful for 1950s Iowa garden, spring flower, and domestic leisure requests needing real 8mm home-movie material.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century residential garden setting, with tulip rows, simple plant marker signage, and distant visitors visible behind the beds.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the flower variety marker and tulips rather than staging people for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark tulips, red and yellow flower rows, a white FAUST marker, garden soil, distant visitors, trees, and a house with porch.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, saturated color, slight gate edges, and a steady but informal home-movie framing.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a spring garden insert, floral cutaway, regional memory beat, or quiet transition in a mid-century domestic sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects leisure garden viewing and home-movie documentation of cultivated flowers in an Iowa setting, without proving a specific public event.
Research note: People are distant and not clearly identifiable, but likeness and property context should still be reviewed separately from footage copyright.
Research search match: Search matches include 1959 Iowa 8mm tulip garden, dark tulips with FAUST marker, mid-century flower beds, and vintage home movie garden footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Iowa 1959 garden scenes, then broader 1950s home-movie flower and spring footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa 8mm frame of dark tulips beside a white FAUST plant marker, with distant visitors and a house beyond the flower beds. — Dark tulips and a FAUST marker in a sunlit garden bed.

1959 Iowa home-movie frame showing a FAUST tulip marker among dark blooms, with colorful beds and a residential-looking house in the background. — FAUST variety marker standing among dark tulips.

1959 Iowa 8mm view of dark tulips and a FAUST marker, with rows of bright flowers, trees, and a porch-front house behind. — Rows of tulips surround the FAUST garden marker.

1959 Iowa home-movie frame of dark tulips around a FAUST marker, bordered by a garden path and distant residential structures. — The camera holds on the FAUST marker and dark tulip bed.

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