Iowa-1959: White House With Windows And Part Of The Dark Roof And A Big Tree

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

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White House With Windows And Part Of The Dark Roof And A... — Clip Details

IOWA-1959: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a white clapboard house at night, its windows glowing softly against the dark sky. A large tree stands in the foreground, partially obscuring the view as the camera slowly pans across the front of the home. The footage shows classic mid-century architecture with a prominent roofline and gutters, all rendered in the grainy, blue-tinted quality of 8mm film. This nostalgic clip evokes a quiet suburban evening from the late 1950s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127421507

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: Supports requests for late-1950s Iowa home-movie footage showing a quiet residential exterior at night for documentary, museum, education, or commercial cutaway use.
Period detail: The white clapboard siding, divided windows, roofline, gutters, and 8mm color rendering may show a modest mid-century American house exterior.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from outside with a slow, informal pan, giving the scene the unstaged feeling of a family record rather than a composed architectural shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a white house facade, dark roof edge, divided windows, porch or doorway detail, gutters, a large tree trunk, and deep night shadows.
Film character: The clip has blue-tinted 8mm color, visible grain, low-light exposure shifts, soft focus, and slight handheld movement that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a night exterior insert, domestic memory beat, transition into a home scene, or atmospheric cutaway for 1950s residential material.
Historical context: As Iowa home-movie footage from 1959, it offers a restrained view of residential architecture and nighttime family surroundings without showing people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the residential exterior may still require copyright, location, and property-context review before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1959 Iowa 8mm house exterior at night, mid-century white clapboard home, vintage home movie windows, and residential night cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Iowa 1959 residential footage, then broader 1950s home exteriors or night neighborhood scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa 8mm frame of a white house exterior at night, with a divided window and dark tree trunks crossing the view. — Night view of a white residential facade with a window partly obscured by trees.

1959 Iowa home-movie frame showing a white residential exterior with roofline, doorway detail, window, and a large tree trunk. — The camera pans across the house front, with the tree trunk cutting through the night exterior.

1959 Iowa 8mm frame with white siding, two window areas, roof gutter, and a large foreground tree trunk in low light. — A foreground tree obscures part of the white house as windows and siding pass through the frame.

1959 Iowa home-movie frame showing a white clapboard house, a divided window, doorway detail, and a dark tree trunk at night. — The final frame holds on the house front, with the window and doorway framed by the tree.

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