Saint Louis Missouri-1966: Banana Plants and Fountain at Grant's Farm

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationSaint Louis, Missouri, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 Saint Louis Missouri

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Banana Plants and Fountain at Grant's Farm — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures lush green banana bunches hanging from a tree, their vibrant color contrasting with the dappled sunlight filtering through the leaves. The scene transitions to a wide view of a manicured lawn with a water fountain spraying in the foreground and a stately building with a red-tiled roof in the background. The final frame shows a sign for Grant's Farm, confirming the location. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic 1960s American family outing.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125316806

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 2121 · Super 8 · 3″ reel
Original reel label: pigs,clogs,cats,fast moving
Reel-level year note: 1966
Reel-level location note: saint louis
Date: 1966 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: Saint Louis, Missouri, 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 1960s documentary or educational edits needing visitor-shot St. Louis leisure footage and Grant's Farm arrival context.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, red-roofed grounds building, fountain and Grant's Farm sign support a mid-1960s visitor outing setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a casual visitor perspective, moving from foliage and grounds details toward the location sign rather than staging a formal view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include banana bunches, large green leaves, dappled sunlight, a lawn, fountain spray, a red-roofed building, paths and a Grant's Farm sign.
Film character: The footage carries home-movie texture through visible grain, warm color shifts, uneven exposure, gate edges and slight handheld blur.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, location confirmation shot or family-outing memory beat.
Historical context: The scene reflects a landscaped public visitor attraction in St. Louis, with leisure grounds and signage captured through a family-film viewpoint.
Research note: The Grant's Farm sign is visible, so trademark, location and property-release questions should be reviewed separately from footage copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1966 8mm St. Louis home movie, Grant's Farm sign, family outing footage, landscaped grounds and vintage visitor attraction.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1966 St. Louis or Grant's Farm material, then broader 1960s family-outing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 St. Louis 8mm frame showing banana bunches and broad leaves in shaded sunlight at Grant's Farm grounds. — Banana bunches and leaves fill the shaded opening view.

Soft 8mm view of banana bunches and foliage, likely within the Grant's Farm visitor grounds in St. Louis. — Foliage and banana bunches appear in soft focus.

1966 home-movie frame of Grant's Farm grounds with lawn, fountain spray and a red-roofed building in the distance. — A fountain sprays across the lawn near a red-roofed grounds building.

Close view of a Grant's Farm sign in St. Louis, confirming the location within the 1966 8mm home movie. — The Grant's Farm sign identifies the visitor location.

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