Holland Michigan-1969: Red Lily Pads and White Tulips in a Garden

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationHolland, Michigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Holland Michigan

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Red Lily Pads and White Tulips in a Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a serene garden scene in Holland, Michigan. The clip opens with a close-up of three red lily pads floating on calm water, their reflections shimmering beneath the surface. The scene transitions to a vibrant flower garden, where a dense cluster of white tulips dominates the foreground, swaying gently in the breeze. In the background, neatly arranged rows of red, yellow, and white tulips stretch across the landscape under a bright sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and natural color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American summer.

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: 125594332

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 1020 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: holland michigan
Date: 1969 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: Holland, Michigan, 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 1960s 8mm garden footage for documentary inserts, seasonal montages, horticulture stories, or Midwestern travel and memory sequences.
Period detail: The clip shows period home-movie color, soft focus, and formal flower-bed planting consistent with the supplied 1969 Holland, Michigan metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera lingers on flowers from a visitor or family viewpoint, valuing color, texture, and garden atmosphere rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red lily pads on water, white tulips, green lawn, distant tulip rows, garden paths, and small plant markers.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, slight softness, natural color saturation, and gentle exposure variation that give it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet floral cutaway, seasonal transition, travel-memory insert, or visual pause between more narrative scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents a public-facing garden or planted display as seen through a late-1960s home-movie lens, without visible people or signage to identify it further.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property or garden-display permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches for 1969 8mm Holland Michigan tulip garden, vintage home movie flowers, red lily pads, white tulips, and Midwestern garden footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Holland, Michigan garden footage, then broader vintage tulip, water garden, and flower-display scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 8mm home-movie frame from Holland, Michigan showing three red lily pads on rippled water. — Red lily pads float on a calm garden pond surface.

Soft 1969 8mm view of red lily pads and their reflections on water in Holland, Michigan. — A close view holds on red lily pads and shimmering water.

1969 Holland, Michigan garden frame with white tulips in front and red, yellow, and white flower rows beyond. — White tulips fill the foreground of a formal garden planting.

Vintage 8mm frame from Holland, Michigan showing white tulips, lawn, and orderly rows of spring flowers. — White tulips sway in front of neat rows of garden color.

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