Iowa USA-1959: Purple Clematis Flowers on House

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

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Purple Clematis Flowers on House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a lush display of vibrant purple clematis flowers cascading over a house's exterior. The camera slowly pans across the dense blooms, revealing their intricate petals and bright white centers against dark green foliage. A light-colored house wall and a small evergreen shrub are visible in the foreground, suggesting a well-kept suburban garden. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American domestic 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: 124867463

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 quiet domestic garden cutaway, seasonal exterior detail, or non-people nature insert.
Period detail: The light house siding, planted shrub, and trellised clematis may show a mid-century residential garden setting in Iowa, supported by the 1959 clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the flowers at close range with an unstaged household perspective, lingering on color and texture rather than a formal event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include purple clematis blossoms, dark green leaves, pale house siding, a small evergreen shrub, window or trim edges, and bright sun patches.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries saturated color, soft focus, visible grain, exposure variation, and slight handheld framing typical of home-movie garden footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, seasonal transition, domestic memory beat, or visual bridge between family or neighborhood scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers a modest view of home gardening and exterior decoration in a residential American setting without showing people or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should be assessed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Iowa 8mm home movie flowers, purple clematis on house exterior, mid-century garden cutaway, and vintage domestic plant footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Iowa exteriors, and then broader vintage home-garden or flower close-up material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Purple clematis blooms and dark foliage dominate this 1959 Iowa home-movie frame, with the house exterior mostly obscured. — Dense purple clematis blossoms hang across the house exterior.

Purple clematis, pale siding, and a small evergreen shrub appear in a 1959 Iowa residential garden view. — Flowers frame a pale exterior wall and nearby shrub.

A close home-movie view shows purple clematis cascading across pale house siding in Iowa, 1959. — Clematis blossoms spread over the visible house exterior.

Purple clematis and dense foliage fill the frame, with a pale house exterior partly visible in this 1959 Iowa garden shot. — The pan ends on dense blooms against the house exterior.

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