Novi Michigan-1961: Woman Picking Colorful Flowers From Her Garden

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationNovi, Michigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Michigan

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Woman Picking Colorful Flowers From Her Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a woman tending to her garden in Novi, Michigan. She bends over a flowerbed, carefully picking vibrant yellow and red tulips amidst green grass and a stone wall. The footage shows her hands and arms in a plaid shirt, with a house and trees in the background. The warm, slightly faded colors and film grain evoke a nostalgic, mid-century American suburban moment.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127422904

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 American suburban garden, domestic leisure, or seasonal color cutaways in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The plaid shirt, informal lawn setting, tulip-like flowers, stone garden feature, and 8mm color stock support a mid-century home-movie reading.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged close view of a woman bending and reaching among flowers, emphasizing ordinary household gardening rather than posed portraiture.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman's arms and dark clothing, yellow, red, and pink flowers, green lawn, a stone wall or garden feature, and part of a house exterior.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, contrasty exposure, and handheld framing that give it a clear home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an insert, seasonal transition, domestic memory beat, or quiet cutaway within a sequence about home, gardening, or suburban life.
Historical context: The footage shows a private-scale garden activity in Novi, Michigan, reflecting everyday outdoor domestic space without supporting broader claims about the community.
Research note: A person is visible without a clear face; likeness and location/property context may still require review separate from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1961 Novi Michigan 8mm home movie garden, woman picking flowers, mid-century suburban yard, and vintage color flower footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1961 Novi material, then broader 1960s home-garden or suburban domestic footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1961 Novi, Michigan home-movie footage, a woman reaches toward bright yellow flowers in a lawn garden near a stone feature. — A woman reaches down toward yellow garden flowers on a sunny lawn.

A woman in dark clothing bends over yellow and red flowers in a Novi, Michigan garden, with lawn and stonework behind her. — The woman bends over a flowerbed with yellow and red blooms visible in the foreground.

Close home-movie view of a woman's hands gathering flowers among yellow, pink, and red blooms in a 1961 Novi garden. — Hands gather stems among colorful flowers in the grass.

A woman holds picked flowers beside bright yellow blooms in the grassy Novi, Michigan garden, with stonework in the background. — Picked flowers are held near a small cluster of yellow blooms on the lawn.

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