Michigan-1959: Woman Walking to Backyard Fountain in Sunlit Garden

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 in Michigan

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Woman Walking to Backyard Fountain in Sunlit Garden — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a yellow blouse and brown skirt walking through a sun-dappled backyard in Michigan. She moves toward a tiered stone fountain surrounded by green grass and trees, with a small white house visible in the background. The footage shows natural movement and subtle camera shake, with the film’s characteristic grain and color saturation. The scene evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment of domestic life and peaceful relaxation in a suburban garden.

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: 127712392

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 2228 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: howard black,
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: flint michigan
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: 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Michigan home-movie requests needing a quiet domestic garden moment, backyard leisure detail, or suburban family-life cutaway.
Period detail: The clothing, saturated 8mm color, small outbuilding, stonework, lawn, and garden fountain may show late-1950s suburban outdoor domestic surroundings.
Home-movie behavior: The footage preserves an unstaged moment as a woman walks away from the camera toward a backyard fountain, with casual pacing and no apparent performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in a yellow blouse and brown skirt, green lawn, stone fountain, low stone border, trees, fence, garden beds, and a small white structure.
Film character: The clip has a handheld 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and saturated mid-century color.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a memory beat, domestic-life insert, garden transition, or quiet cutaway between family or neighborhood scenes.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for mid-century outdoor home life, showing a maintained yard and garden feature without supporting a broader social claim.
Research note: A person is visible from behind, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos or music are evident, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property considerations.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Michigan 8mm home movie, woman walking in backyard garden, vintage fountain footage, and mid-century suburban outdoor life.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1959 Michigan home exteriors, and then with garden, fountain, relaxation, or domestic-life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Michigan 8mm frame showing a woman in a yellow blouse and brown skirt walking through a sunlit backyard toward a stone fountain. — A woman walks across the lawn toward a backyard fountain and garden area.

1959 Michigan home-movie frame with the woman approaching a tiered backyard fountain beside a stone border and fenced garden. — The woman moves closer to the fountain in the sunlit backyard.

1959 Michigan 8mm frame showing the woman near the garden fountain, with lawn, trees, stonework, and a white structure in the background. — The backyard fountain and surrounding garden fill the frame as the woman pauses nearby.

1959 Michigan home-movie frame showing the woman leaning near a stone garden fountain in a leafy backyard setting. — The woman leans near the fountain as sunlight falls across the lawn and trees.

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