Minnesota USA-1961: Sunflower Plant In Rural Garden

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

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Sunflower Plant In Rural Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a sunflower plant in a rural garden setting. The footage shows a tall sunflower with large green leaves and a partially wilted bloom, its head drooping slightly. The plant stands in a grassy field with trees in the background, bathed in natural daylight. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, subtle color fading, and visible grain, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American countryside moment.

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: 125498017

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 1960s rural Minnesota garden or nature cutaways in documentary, education, museum, or commercial archive edits.
Period detail: The visible scene may show a mid-century home garden or rural yard, with a sunflower, tall grass, and trees rather than identifiable landmarks or built structures.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie gaze, lingering briefly on a single garden plant in ordinary daylight.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall sunflower stalk, broad green leaves, a drooping bloom, grasses, trees, daylight, soft focus, and dark film borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges as part of its physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet rural insert, seasonal transition, nature cutaway, or memory beat within a home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The footage places attention on domestic garden life and rural vegetation without showing people, buildings, vehicles, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still review copyright, location context, and any property implications before licensing.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Minnesota 8mm sunflower footage, rural garden home movie, vintage plant cutaway, and 1960s American nature scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Minnesota 1961 rural scenes, then broader vintage garden, flower, and nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame showing a sunflower plant with broad green leaves, grass, and trees in soft daylight. — A sunflower plant stands among grass with trees behind it.

1961 Minnesota 8mm frame of a sunflower plant in a rural garden, with leafy stems, grass, and tree cover behind. — The sunflower remains centered against grass and trees.

1961 Minnesota home-movie still showing a leafy sunflower plant in a grassy rural yard or garden area. — Large sunflower leaves fill the frame with grass in the background.

1961 Minnesota 8mm frame showing a sunflower with broad leaves and a drooping bloom in a rural grassy setting. — A leafy sunflower plant appears in soft focus at the end of the clip.

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