Novi Michigan-1961: Woman Tends Her Colorful Tulip Garden In Daylight

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

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Woman Tends Her Colorful Tulip Garden In Daylight — Clip Details

A woman in a plaid shirt and dark pants tends to her garden in Novi, Michigan, in 1961. Shot on 8mm film, the clip captures her hands carefully arranging vibrant red and yellow tulips in a lush green lawn. The natural daylight highlights the vivid colors of the flowers and the casual, domestic atmosphere of a summer day. This authentic home movie footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century American life and gardening practices.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127422932

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 home-movie requests needing domestic gardening, suburban leisure, or seasonal color cutaways from Novi, Michigan.
Period detail: The plaid shirt, dark trousers, lawn setting, and 8mm color stock may show casual early-1960s home garden life without identifiable public landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the informal, close domestic action as a woman bends toward tulips and handles the flowers for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible details include pink, red, orange, and yellow tulips, green lawn, a woman in a plaid shirt, dark pants, bare arms, and portions of a house and yard behind her.
Film character: The clip has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight handheld framing, and uneven exposure that support its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, seasonal transition, domestic memory beat, or cutaway for gardening and mid-century everyday life.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary yard work or flower tending in a residential Michigan setting, framed through family-film observation rather than formal documentation.
Research note: A visible adult may require likeness review, and copyright status should be checked separately from any privacy or property considerations.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1961 Novi Michigan home movie garden, 8mm woman tending tulips, 1960s suburban lawn flowers, and vintage color gardening footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel scenes, then other Novi or 1961 Michigan home movies, then broader 1960s gardening, lawns, flowers, and domestic outdoor life.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1961 Novi, Michigan home-movie footage, a woman in dark pants bends toward colorful tulips on a lawn. — A woman reaches toward tulips growing in a sunny yard.

A woman in a plaid shirt tends a pink tulip in a sunlit yard in Novi, Michigan, 1961. — The woman bends forward while handling a pink flower in the garden.

The home-movie frame shows a woman tending pink tulips with yellow and orange flowers visible in the lawn. — Colorful tulips stand in the foreground as the woman reaches down.

A woman bends close to yellow and pink tulips in a residential yard, captured on 8mm film in 1961 Novi, Michigan. — The woman leans into the flower bed with yellow tulips prominent in front.

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