Minnesota USA-1961: Garden with Colorful Flowers and Lush Foliage

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

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Garden with Colorful Flowers and Lush Foliage — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a vibrant garden scene in Minnesota. The footage features lush green foliage and colorful flowers, including bright yellow blooms and deep red plants, arranged in a tiered, landscaped bed beside a stone wall. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics—soft focus, rich color saturation, and subtle grain—evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American backyard. The camera remains steady, offering a peaceful, observational view of the garden's natural beauty and careful design.

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: 125497753

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 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: Useful for requests needing early 1960s Minnesota home-movie garden footage as a calm nature cutaway, seasonal insert, or domestic landscape detail.
Period detail: The planted bed, stone wall, saturated 8mm color, and steady home-movie framing may show mid-century residential garden aesthetics without identifying a specific property.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie viewpoint, lingering on flowers and foliage rather than staging people or action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tiered flower bed, dense green groundcover, yellow blooms, red-leaf plants, purple foliage, a stone wall, and a narrow paved edge.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm focus, vivid color saturation, slight grain, and modest exposure variation that give the garden scene physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a quiet cutaway, seasonal transition, memory beat, or establishing detail for domestic outdoor life in a 1960s archive sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a tended ornamental garden in a Minnesota home-movie context, with no visible people, signage, vehicles, or public landmarks to broaden identification.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1961 Minnesota 8mm garden footage, vintage home movie flowers, mid-century backyard landscaping, and colorful planted bed cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Minnesota 1961 domestic exteriors, then broader 1960s garden, flowers, and home landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Minnesota 8mm frame showing a lush planted bed with yellow blooms, red foliage, green groundcover, and a stone wall. — A landscaped garden bed fills the frame, bordered by stonework and dense colorful planting.

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame of a colorful garden bed with layered foliage, yellow blooms, and a stone wall in soft 8mm color. — Dense green plants and bright flowers are seen in a tiered bed beside a stone wall.

1961 Minnesota 8mm still showing a landscaped flower bed with bright central greenery, purple edging plants, and yellow blooms. — The camera looks across a richly planted bed with contrasting green, purple, red, and yellow colors.

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame of a lush garden bed with red-leaf plants, yellow flowers, green foliage, and visible 8mm frame edges. — Layered foliage and small bright flowers appear in a saturated 8mm view of the garden.

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