New York-1951: Recording Of A Big House Set Next To A Beautiful Waterfall

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Year1951
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 New York

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Recording Of A Big House Set Next To A Beautiful Waterfall — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1951, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched backyard scene in New York. The footage opens on a striped patio umbrella shading a small table and chairs on a green lawn, then pans across a grassy yard with trees and a wooden bench. A white-sided house with a dark window appears briefly before the clip concludes with a close-up of a cascading waterfall, its water rendered in deep blue tones. The grainy, slightly overexposed quality and warm color palette evoke a nostalgic, mid-century American summer memory.

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: 124925894

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: 1951 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: New York, 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: Useful for 1950s New York home-movie requests needing a brief residential yard, house exterior, or garden waterfall cutaway.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century domestic yard with lawn furniture, a striped umbrella, simple bench seating, and a white-sided house exterior.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the property casually from a handheld home-movie perspective, moving from yard details to a house and waterfall without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a green lawn, trees, patio umbrella, small table and chairs, bench, white-sided house wall, dark window, and cascading waterfall.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, high-contrast sunlight, slight overexposure, handheld framing, and saturated blue-purple water tones.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, residential establishing insert, summer yard transition, or nature-detail cutaway.
Historical context: The clip provides a small domestic outdoor view of postwar-era leisure and home surroundings without identifying a specific household or neighborhood.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are apparent, but the house and grounds may require property and copyright review before commercial use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1951 New York 8mm home movie yard, vintage house exterior, backyard waterfall, lawn furniture, and mid-century summer footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with other 1951 New York residential footage, then with vintage yard, house, garden, or water scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1951 New York home-movie frame of a sunlit lawn with patio umbrella, small furniture, trees, and bench seating. — A shaded patio umbrella and small outdoor furniture sit on a bright green lawn.

1951 New York home-movie view across a grassy yard with trees, shadows, bench seating, and a small structure or vehicle at the edge. — The camera looks across the open yard toward trees and a bench in strong sunlight.

1951 New York home-movie frame showing a white-sided house exterior, dark window, roofline, shrubs, and lawn beyond. — A white-sided house appears briefly beside trees and low shrubs.

1951 New York home-movie close-up of a cascading waterfall, with bright sunlight along the top and blue-purple water tones. — The clip ends on a close view of water cascading over a ledge.

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