Holland Michigan-1969: Red and Yellow Tulips Swaying in Garden

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

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Red and Yellow Tulips Swaying in Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures vibrant red and yellow tulips swaying gently in a breeze. The close-up footage highlights the delicate petals and green foliage against dark soil, with natural light creating soft highlights and shadows. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and slight color shifts, evoking a nostalgic, pastoral mood. This archival clip offers authentic, unscripted nature footage perfect for historical or emotional storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upExterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125594374

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1969 8mm home-movie garden footage for productions needing a brief nature cutaway, seasonal insert, or quiet Midwestern memory beat.
Period detail: The frames show close-up tulips and soil, with the 1969 period supported by clip metadata rather than visible buildings, clothing, or objects.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes flowers at close range in an unstaged garden view, preserving the casual attention of a home-movie maker lingering on color and motion.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red tulip blooms, yellow tulips, green stems and leaves, dark garden soil, bright sunlight, shadowed edges, and soft focus.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, slight softness, saturated reds and yellows, uneven exposure, and gate-edge darkness that reads as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a nature insert, seasonal transition, color cutaway, or reflective pause within a family, travel, or memory sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers a domestic garden view associated with Holland, Michigan, showing tulips as a visual subject without making claims about a specific event or festival.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, music, or private interiors are visible, though copyright and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1969 8mm tulips, Holland Michigan flowers, vintage home movie garden, red and yellow tulips, and 1960s nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1969 Holland, Michigan footage, then broader vintage garden or spring flower material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Holland, Michigan 8mm frame showing red tulips filling the upper view with green stems, leaves, soil, and dark film edges. — Close-up red tulips sway over garden soil in bright sunlight.

Close 8mm view of red tulips in Holland, Michigan, with soft focus, green stems, garden soil, and dark vertical frame borders. — Red tulip blossoms fill the frame with stems and soil behind them.

1969 8mm home-movie frame of a yellow tulip in a garden bed, surrounded by green leaves, dark soil, and strong sunlight. — A yellow tulip sits low in the frame among leaves and garden soil.

Close 8mm frame from Holland, Michigan showing a yellow tulip, a partial bloom above it, green foliage, soil, and dark scan edges. — Yellow tulips and green foliage appear in a sunlit garden close-up.

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