Iowa-1959: Lakefront Property with Houses and Trees

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationIowa, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 Iowa

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Lakefront Property with Houses and Trees — Clip Details

Panning shot from an 8mm home movie captures a serene lakefront property in Iowa, 1959. The camera glides across calm waters toward a tree-lined shore where modest houses are nestled among lush greenery. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, muted color palette with a blueish tint, and visible grain. This vintage 1950s home movie offers authentic archival footage of rural American life, perfect for nostalgic documentaries, historical projects, or period-specific content.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127421211

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 1319 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: iowa
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: Iowa, 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: 1950s Iowa lakefront home-movie footage suited for documentary inserts about rural leisure, waterfront housing, or Midwestern landscape memory.
Period detail: The modest shore houses, mature tree line, calm lake, and soft 8mm color may show late-1950s vacation or residential waterfront surroundings.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld pan has the quiet, unstaged feel of a family filmer recording a shoreline view from across the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include open lake water, distant trees, low shoreline vegetation, small houses, pale sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: Muted blue color, soft focus, visible grain, rounded frame edges, and slight exposure variation give the shot a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, location-establishing insert, transition across water, or reflective memory beat.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for mid-century Midwestern lakefront settlement and informal scenic filming without identifying a specific lake or community.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and property-right questions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1959 Iowa 8mm lakefront, 1950s home movie shoreline, Midwestern lake houses, and vintage rural water view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Iowa 1959 scenes, then broader 1950s lakefront or rural landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing calm lake water and a distant tree-lined shoreline in soft blue-toned color. — The pan opens on still water and a distant band of shoreline trees.

1959 Iowa lakefront view with still water, mature trees, and a small light-colored house near the shore. — A small house appears along the tree-lined waterfront as the camera pans.

Soft 8mm frame of an Iowa lakefront with calm water, trees, and small houses set back from the shore. — The shoreline widens to show more houses among the trees across the lake.

1959 Iowa home-movie frame showing still lake water and a wooded shoreline with scattered small buildings. — The pan settles on a wooded shoreline with low buildings beyond the water.

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