Iowa-1959: Birdhouse On Pole With Birds Resting And Flying

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

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Birdhouse On Pole With Birds Resting And Flying — Clip Details

IOWA-1959: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a wooden birdhouse perched atop a tall pole against a deep blue twilight sky. Several birds rest on the roof and edges of the structure, with others seen flying past in the distance. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, evoking a nostalgic, rural Americana moment from the late 1950s. This archival clip offers authentic, unscripted nature footage ideal for historical or nostalgic projects.

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: 127421610

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Iowa rural home-movie requests needing a brief nature cutaway of birds around a raised wooden birdhouse or roosting structure.
Period detail: The frames may show a simple mid-century rural yard or farm structure, with the 1959 Iowa date supported by clip metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of an unstaged home-movie observation, with the camera pointed upward as birds perch and move around the structure.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall pole, a small wooden birdhouse-like structure, perched birds, flying birds, open blue sky, film borders, and slight handheld framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows blue color cast, soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, and mild camera shake that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, rural transition, nature cutaway, or memory beat within a 1950s family, farm, or Americana sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents an everyday outdoor bird-watching moment rather than a public event, with rural setting and date drawn from the archive metadata.
Research note: No people, faces, brands, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location context, and any property questions should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Researcher matches include 1959 Iowa 8mm birds, vintage home movie birdhouse, rural sky bird cutaway, and mid-century nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Iowa 1959 home movies, then rural bird, sky, farmyard, or nature cutaway material from nearby archival contexts.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Iowa 8mm frame showing a raised wooden birdhouse-like structure on a pole, with birds perched and flying against a blue sky. — Birds gather around a raised wooden structure silhouetted against the sky.

1959 Iowa home-movie frame with birds resting on a raised wooden structure while other birds pass through the blue sky. — Several birds perch on the roof and edges while others fly nearby.

1959 Iowa 8mm frame looking upward at a pole-mounted wooden birdhouse-like structure as birds perch and fly nearby. — The handheld camera looks up at birds around the pole-mounted structure.

1959 Iowa frame showing the raised wooden structure and pole supports against a blue sky, with small birds visible on the roofline. — The structure remains framed high in the sky with birds along its upper edge.

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