Missouri USA-1961: Gladiolus Garden with Blooming Flowers

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationMissouri, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Missouri

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Gladiolus Garden with Blooming Flowers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a garden scene in Missouri, USA. The footage shows rows of blooming gladiolus flowers, with vibrant red and yellow blooms standing out against green foliage and dark soil. A red ribbon is tied to one of the red flowers, suggesting a prize or special designation. The camera remains mostly static, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century gardening, with natural film grain and color saturation characteristic of Super 8 footage.

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: 124869573

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1961 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Missouri, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Missouri home-movie garden footage for documentary or educational sequences needing noncommercial flower cultivation and mid-century domestic horticulture cutaways.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show early-1960s amateur filming through its square framing, saturated reds and yellows, garden rows, and prize-like ribbon on a gladiolus bloom.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-garden viewpoint, with the camera lingering on flowers rather than people or formal ceremony.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rows of gladiolus plants, red and yellow blooms, a red ribbon tied near one flower, green leaves, dark cultivated soil, and frame-edge film borders.
Film character: The scan carries a physical 8mm look with soft focus, visible grain, saturated color, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing shifts.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, seasonal insert, fair or garden-memory beat, or transition into domestic outdoor life.
Historical context: The scene documents ornamental gardening and flower display in a Missouri home-movie context without visible people, signage, or identifiable buildings.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, collection permissions, and any property-context claims should still be verified separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1961 Missouri 8mm garden footage, gladiolus flowers home movie, red ribbon flower display, and mid-century backyard garden cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Missouri 1961 outdoor scenes, and then broader 1960s gardening or flower-show material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Missouri 8mm frame showing a red gladiolus with a red ribbon beside green leaves in a cultivated garden bed. — A red gladiolus bloom with a red ribbon stands among rows of garden plants.

1961 Missouri garden footage frame with a red ribbon tied near a red gladiolus bloom, surrounded by foliage and dark soil. — The ribboned red flower remains centered against the garden bed and surrounding leaves.

1961 Missouri 8mm frame showing yellow gladiolus flowers in a cultivated garden row with green leaves and dark soil. — Yellow gladiolus blooms appear in a planted row, with additional flower stalks behind them.

1961 Missouri home-movie frame of yellow gladiolus flowers and green foliage in a cultivated garden bed. — The camera holds on yellow gladiolus flowers and rows of plants in dark garden soil.

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