Minnesota USA-1961: The Old Stone Birdhouse and Well in a 1960s Yard

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Minnesota

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The Old Stone Birdhouse and Well in a 1960s Yard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban yard in Minnesota. The footage shows a stone birdhouse with a green roof and a rustic stone well with a wooden roof, both surrounded by fallen leaves and trees. A person in red pants and a dark jacket walks through a snow-covered yard near a classic car. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and the authentic look of a mid-century home movie, evoking nostalgia for 1960s Americana.

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: 125497658

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1028 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: mother,sioux falls, pushmobile, duluth in winter, clarence
Reel-level year note: 1960-1961
Reel-level location note: duluth,minnesota
Date: 1961 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: Minnesota, 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: Supports 1960s Minnesota home-movie requests needing quiet residential yard details, garden ornaments, or suburban exterior cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color footage may show early-1960s yard ornamentation, including stone birdhouse structures, a rustic wishing-well feature, mature trees, and fallen leaves.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the yard casually from a family or visitor perspective, with a small figure briefly visible near the house rather than a staged presentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tree trunks, leaf-covered ground, stone birdhouses, a rustic stone well with a wooden roof, a house exterior, and a distant person near the yard.
Film character: The clip has a mid-century 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, contrasty shadows, mild color shift, and slight handheld instability.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief establishing cutaway, memory beat, seasonal transition, or domestic exterior insert within a 1960s Americana sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents ordinary residential yard design and family-film attention to home surroundings without supporting claims about a specific neighborhood or household.
Research note: People appear small and indistinct, but likeness and property context should still be reviewed separately from copyright or source ownership clearance.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1961 Minnesota 8mm yard, 1960s home movie birdhouse, vintage suburban well ornament, and mid-century residential exterior footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Minnesota or 1961 home-movie exteriors, then with broader 1960s yard and suburban Americana material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Minnesota 8mm frame showing a shaded yard with fallen leaves, tree trunks, stone birdhouse structures, and a small garden ornament. — Stone birdhouse structures stand among trees and fallen leaves in a shaded yard.

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame of a residential yard with stone birdhouses, mature trees, fallen leaves, and a low round garden feature. — A second view repeats the yard ornaments and tree-lined setting.

1961 Minnesota 8mm frame showing a stone wishing-well yard feature, house siding and windows, tree trunks, and a small distant person. — A rustic stone well feature stands in front of the house as a figure moves in the background.

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame of a rustic stone well ornament in a residential yard, with house siding, trees, and a small person at right. — The well ornament remains centered while the house and a distant figure appear behind it.

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