New York-1959: Suburban House with Shingled Roof and Green Trim

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Suburban House with Shingled Roof and Green Trim — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban house with a distinctive shingled roof and light-colored siding. The camera pans across the structure, revealing a green-trimmed doorway and a small porch area. In the background, a wooden fence and trees frame the scene, evoking a peaceful mid-century American neighborhood. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural film imperfections, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-accurate visual research.

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: 125574653

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 1101 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: north pole,game farm,amusement park, reel 2
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1959 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: New York, 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 1950s New York suburban establishing footage, residential cutaways, and period neighborhood context in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The light siding, shingled roof, simple porch, green trim, and rail fence may show mid-century residential design details.
Home-movie behavior: The brief handheld pan has the quiet observational feel of a home-movie operator recording a familiar house exterior.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a shingled roof, pale siding, green-trimmed doorway, porch rail, wooden fence, lawn, trees, and window openings.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, faded color, exposure fluctuation, gate marks, and light dust that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a residential insert, suburban transition, memory beat, or brief exterior cutaway between family scenes.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for a quiet residential setting without identifying the house, occupants, or exact neighborhood.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but the house exterior should still be reviewed for property, copyright, and location-identification concerns.
Research search match: Searches may include 1959 8mm New York suburban house, mid-century home exterior, shingled roof green trim, and vintage home movie residence.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1959 New York exteriors, then similar mid-century suburban home footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 New York home-movie frame showing a pale suburban house exterior with a shingled roof and partial window view. — A pale residential exterior and shingled roof appear in the opening frame.

1959 New York frame of a light-colored house wall with green trim below a shingled roof and a small window. — Green trim and a small window are visible beneath the roofline.

1959 New York home-movie view of the house corner, green-trimmed entry area, porch rail, lawn, and shingled roof. — The pan passes a green-trimmed entry area and porch rail beside the lawn.

1959 New York frame showing a wooden fence, trees, lawn, and part of the shingled house roof in soft 8mm color. — A wooden fence and trees frame the yard near the house exterior.

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