Minnesota USA-1961: Family Paddling Boat On Lake And Sunflowers Grow In Garden

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

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Family Paddling Boat On Lake And Sunflowers Grow In Garden — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1961: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a family enjoying a sunny day on a lake, paddling a small motorized boat. The scene shifts to a garden where tall sunflowers grow in a grassy field, their large green leaves and yellow blooms swaying gently. Shot on 8mm film, the footage features natural colors, slight grain, and the authentic feel of a 1960s family memory, perfect for nostalgic documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125498015

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 requests for early 1960s Minnesota home-movie material showing family lake recreation and garden plant life for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: The small leisure boat, casual lakeside activity, and 8mm color home-movie handling may show a middle-class family outing and garden filming in 1961 Minnesota.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has unstaged family-observer value, moving from people gathered on a small boat to a close look at sunflowers in a yard or field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lake, small boat with people aboard, distant shoreline trees, tall sunflower stalks, broad green leaves, yellow blooms, grass, and soft film borders.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm color grain, mild softness, uneven exposure, rounded frame edges, and handheld framing that preserve the physical character of the home movie source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, lake-recreation insert, garden cutaway, or transition between family leisure and summer rural imagery.
Historical context: The clip visually connects domestic leisure on a Minnesota lake with home garden observation, without enough detail to identify the family, lake, or property.
Research note: People are visible in the boat, so likeness review may be needed separately from copyright review; no logos or obvious private-property details are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 Minnesota 8mm family lake boat, vintage home movie sunflowers, 1960s garden flowers, and family boating on lake footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel family or garden shots, then with 1961 Minnesota material, then with broader 1960s lake recreation or summer garden footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame showing a small boat with people on a lake, with a tree-lined shoreline in the distance. — A small group is seen on a boat during a lake outing, filmed from shore or another nearby position.

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame of tall sunflower plants with broad leaves and yellow blooms in a grassy garden or field. — The scene shifts from the lake to tall sunflowers growing in a grassy outdoor area.

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame showing sunflower leaves and blooms in close view, surrounded by grass and garden growth. — A handheld close view emphasizes the sunflower leaves and blooms in the garden area.

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame of sunflowers and dense green leaves in a grassy outdoor garden setting. — Sunflowers remain centered in the final frame, with leafy stems and grass visible around them.

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