Novi Michigan-1961: Man Working In The Garden Taking Care Of The Flowers

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationNovi, Michigan, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Michigan

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Man Working In The Garden Taking Care Of The Flowers — Clip Details

A man in a patterned short-sleeve shirt and dark pants tends to a vibrant flower bed in a suburban backyard, carefully arranging tulips and other spring blooms. Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a quiet moment of domestic gardening under dappled sunlight. The scene features a lush green lawn, a stone border, and a house with a white porch in the background, framed by tall trees. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, authentic slice of mid-century American life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127422872

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 2015 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: xmas,linda communion,,d danielar
Reel-level year note: 1961-1962
Reel-level location note: detroit michigan,
Date: 1961 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: Novi, 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 for 1960s domestic-life edits needing authentic home-movie footage of backyard gardening and spring flower care in suburban Michigan.
Period detail: The patterned short-sleeve shirt, lawn setting, tulip bed, and 8mm color home-movie look support an early-1960s suburban domestic context.
Home-movie behavior: The man appears absorbed in tending flowers, giving the clip unstaged value as a quiet record of ordinary household gardening.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a man bending over a flower bed, tulips, low stone edging, green lawn, trees, a walkway, and a house in the background.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild motion blur, and uneven exposure that place the scene clearly within home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, seasonal transition, or memory beat for mid-century domestic life, yard work, or springtime routines.
Historical context: The footage reflects a residential leisure or maintenance activity, with flower gardening presented as part of everyday suburban outdoor life.
Research note: A person is visible and the setting includes a residence, so likeness and property context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Novi Michigan home movie gardening, 8mm suburban backyard flowers, man tending tulips, and 1960s domestic yard work.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel garden or family scenes, then Novi 1961 material, then broader 1960s home-movie gardening and suburban lawn footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Novi, Michigan, 1961 home-movie footage, a man bends over a flower bed with tulips, lawn, trees, and a house in the background. — A man tends spring flowers in a suburban backyard garden.

The man continues working close to the tulips in a 1961 Novi backyard, with a lawn, trees, and house exterior visible beyond the garden. — The gardener reaches down among tulips and other spring blooms.

A 1961 Novi home-movie frame shows the man bent over the garden near a walkway, surrounded by spring flowers, lawn, trees, and a house exterior. — A backyard walkway and flower bed frame the man at work.

In the final frame, the man reaches across the tulip bed in a Novi, Michigan backyard, with a green lawn, trees, and house exterior behind him. — The man reaches toward the flowers while working along the bed.

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