Minnesota USA-1961: Sunflower Blooming, Date Label, People Walking in Yard

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

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Sunflower Blooming, Date Label, People Walking in Yard — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Minnesota in 1961 captures a sunflower growing in a backyard, its large green leaves and yellow bloom swaying gently. The scene shifts to a hand-drawn slide label reading 'TAYLORS FALLS AUG.30 1961' with a small landscape photo. The final frames show two people walking on a paved path through a grassy, tree-lined yard. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color tones, and natural lighting, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American summer.

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: 125498024

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: Useful for 1960s Minnesota home-movie requests needing brief inserts of backyard plants, handwritten travel labeling, or casual outdoor movement.
Period detail: The handwritten Taylors Falls label dated Aug. 30, 1961 and the 8mm color stock support a mid-century amateur-film context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-reel feel, moving from a close yard observation to a labeled travel memory and distant people crossing a path.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a sunflower, leafy yard vegetation, handwritten Taylors Falls label, small landscape photo, paved path, lawn, trees, and two walkers.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm color, visible grain, uneven exposure, slight blur, and handheld framing typical of amateur home-movie scanning.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief memory beat, location-label insert, summer-yard cutaway, or transition between family travel and outdoor domestic scenes.
Historical context: The images reflect everyday leisure documentation, with a garden plant, a dated handwritten title card, and people moving through a green outdoor setting.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright status should be assessed separately from privacy or property issues.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Minnesota 8mm home movie, Taylors Falls label, backyard sunflower, summer yard footage, and people walking on a path.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Minnesota or Taylors Falls material, then broader home-movie garden and travel-label scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame showing a sunflower plant with large leaves and a yellow bloom near a tree-lined yard. — Sunflower growing beside a wooded outdoor yard.

Handwritten 1961 title card for Taylors Falls with red lettering and a small landscape photograph on a warm-toned surface. — Handmade Taylors Falls date card marked Aug. 30, 1961.

Close 8mm frame of a handmade Taylors Falls Aug. 30 1961 label, partly crossed by film wear or debris. — Close view of the handwritten Taylors Falls label.

Outdoor Minnesota home-movie frame showing two distant people walking across a paved path bordered by lawn and trees. — Distant walkers cross a tree-lined paved path.

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