Iowa USA-1959: A Colorful Tulip Garden With Name Plaques

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

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A Colorful Tulip Garden With Name Plaques — Clip Details

IOWA USA-1959: A vibrant 8mm home movie captures a meticulously arranged tulip garden in full bloom. Rows of dark purple, red, and white tulips stretch across the frame, each variety marked by a small white plaque with handwritten names like 'FAUST' and 'CORONADO'. The footage, shot on vintage 8mm film, shows a gentle pan across the colorful flower beds, with green foliage and a distant fence visible under a bright sky. The natural film grain and slight color fading evoke a nostalgic, mid-century American garden scene.

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: 124865782

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 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 American home-movie requests needing a brief color garden cutaway, seasonal nature insert, or mid-century leisure detail from Iowa.
Period detail: The clip shows handwritten variety plaques, orderly flower beds, wire fencing, and soft 8mm color that fit the supplied 1959 Iowa home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera studies the tulips at close range with a casual pan, preserving a visitor or family record of flowers rather than a staged horticultural display.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rows of tulips, white handwritten name plaques, green leaves, bare soil, a garden path, fencing, trees, and distant small buildings.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, rounded frame edges, slight color fading, soft focus, and handheld framing that give the scene clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a springtime cutaway, memory beat, garden insert, or gentle transition within sequences about domestic life, flowers, or travel.
Historical context: The footage documents a mid-century garden visit or family outing, with named tulip varieties foregrounded as part of an orderly public or private flower display.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the garden setting and handwritten plaques should still be reviewed for copyright, property, and location context.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Iowa 8mm tulip garden footage, vintage flower beds with name plaques, mid-century home movie garden scenes, and spring bloom cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1959 Iowa exteriors, then with vintage garden, flower show, spring landscape, or home-movie nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing dark tulips in rows, a partial handwritten plaque, garden path, fencing, trees, and small buildings beyond. — Dark tulips and a partial variety plaque in an orderly garden bed.

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing red tulips and green leaves around a white handwritten Coronado plaque in a sunny garden bed. — Red tulips grow around a handwritten Coronado variety marker.

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing mixed red and pale tulips, dense green foliage, bare soil, and a handwritten Coronado marker. — Mixed tulip rows with the Coronado plaque visible near the lower edge.

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing red and white tulips in rows, leafy stems, bare soil, a garden path, fencing, and trees beyond. — Rows of red and white tulips fill the frame near a garden path.

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