Iowa USA-1959: Rows of Pink, Red, and Yellow Tulips in Field

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

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Rows of Pink, Red, and Yellow Tulips in Field — Clip Details

A vibrant 8mm home movie from 1959 captures a sun-drenched field of blooming tulips in Iowa. Rows of pink, red, and yellow flowers stretch across the frame, their colors rich and saturated with the characteristic grain and slight color bleed of vintage Super 8 film. The camera remains steady, offering a peaceful, nostalgic view of a spring garden, with a faint glimpse of a road and distant figures in the background. This authentic archival footage evokes a sense of mid-century Americana and natural beauty.

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: 124865833

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: Supports 1950s U.S. archive requests needing a brief home-movie cutaway of spring flowers, garden color, or mid-century outdoor leisure in Iowa.
Period detail: The visible tulip beds, roadside edge, and distant visitors may show a public garden or landscaped field seen through a late-1950s home-movie camera.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, holding low over the flower rows as distant people pass beyond the beds without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pink and red tulips, yellow flowers, green leaves, soil rows, a road or path, distant figures, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, saturated color, mild color bleed, visible grain, and gate edges that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short seasonal insert, garden cutaway, memory beat, or transition into springtime Americana material.
Historical context: The scene visually places flower viewing within everyday outdoor recreation, with distant visitors suggesting a public or shared garden setting.
Research note: People appear only distantly, but likeness review may still be needed; copyright, location, and any property permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s Iowa tulip field 8mm, vintage flower garden home movie, and mid-century spring garden footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Iowa 1959 outdoor scenes, then other vintage flower gardens, spring travel, or home-movie nature cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa 8mm frame of pink and red tulips in a flower bed, with yellow blooms and distant visitors near a road or path. — Tulip rows in bloom with distant people visible beyond the garden bed.

1959 Iowa home-movie view across tulip beds, with pink foreground blooms, yellow flowers farther back, and distant people near the path. — Flower beds stretch across the frame with people faintly visible in the background.

Soft 8mm frame from Iowa in 1959 showing tulips close to the camera, yellow flowers behind them, and faint visitors along the far edge. — A low view through tulips, with the background softened by focus and motion.

1959 Iowa 8mm view of a colorful tulip bed, showing pink and red blooms in front, yellow flowers behind, and distant people near a path. — Colorful tulips fill the frame while visitors remain small in the background.

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