Iowa USA-1959: Trees with Blossoms and Flower Bed

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

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Trees with Blossoms and Flower Bed — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a top-down view of tree branches swaying gently in a suburban park. The camera pans across a grassy lawn, revealing a tree with sparse yellow blossoms and a white post in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and natural color fading typical of mid-century home movies. A colorful flower bed with red and yellow blooms appears briefly, adding a touch of spring vibrancy. This nostalgic clip evokes a quiet, everyday moment from a bygone era, perfect for historical or editorial projects.

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: 124866144

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 Iowa home-movie requests needing a quiet park or garden cutaway for documentary, museum, education, or editorial sequences.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century suburban park or garden setting, with visible lawn, bare and budding branches, a path, and small white garden markers.
Home-movie behavior: The high, handheld viewpoint feels like an unstaged home-movie glance from above, lingering on branches, grass, and a flower bed rather than a planned scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tree limbs, green lawn, a pale walkway or drive, a flower bed with red and yellow blooms, white markers, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, mild motion blur, visible grain, uneven exposure, and faded color that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief seasonal insert, memory beat, transitional park detail, or establishing cutaway within a 1950s family or regional sequence.
Historical context: The footage provides modest visual context for everyday outdoor landscaping and recreational green space in Iowa home-movie material from 1959.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and property context should still be reviewed for use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Iowa 8mm park footage, vintage home movie tree branches, mid-century flower bed, suburban lawn, and archival garden cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Iowa 1959 material, then broader 1950s home-movie park, lawn, garden, or seasonal nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing a pale path, green grass, and soft tree branches from a high home-movie viewpoint. — A pale path and lawn appear through a high, partially framed view.

1959 Iowa home-movie frame with tree trunks, sparse branches, green lawn, and a pale path in the background. — Branches and tree trunks fill the frame above a grassy park area.

High 8mm view in Iowa, 1959, with branches crossing a grassy lawn and a pale walkway beyond. — Tree limbs cross the view over grass and a light-colored path.

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing a flower bed with red and yellow blooms, white markers, lawn, and overhanging branches. — A planted flower bed appears below overhanging branches and white markers.

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