Kentucky-1958: House Number 2651 Lamp Post and Pan Up to Ivy-Covered House

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit

Answers requests for a late-1950s American suburban home exterior to establish a family house in a documentary or memoir sequence.

Period detail

The post-mounted yard lantern with a numbered plate, low white picket edging and fabric awning fit a mid-century suburban lot, and the film's colour may show the look of 1950s 8mm stock.

Home-movie behavior

The filmmaker records their own address and then sweeps up to the house, the kind of proud tour of the property that amateur reels often include.

What appears in frame

A black lamp post with a 2651 number plate, a mown lawn, low white picket fencing, dark shrubs, an ivy-covered wall with a pale window, a small red awning and a shingled roof edge under trees.

Film character

Grainy 8mm colour with saturated greens, near-black shadows, a violet-pink cast in the highlights and a quick, slightly unsteady handheld pan that softens focus on the foliage.

Edit role

Works as a short establishing shot of a home, or the opening number-plate second can be lifted as an insert.

Historical context

It shows a well-kept, heavily planted suburban house lot of the kind that appears in many postwar American home movies, without tying it to any named event.

Research note

No people appear, but a private home and a readable house number are shown; copyright in the film is separate from any property considerations, which a licensee should weigh for their use.

Research search match

1950s house exterior home movie, ivy-covered house 8mm, house number lamp post, picket fence lawn vintage film, suburban home establishing shot.

Archive pairing path

Pair first with the same reel's hammock and sunbather clips shot in this yard, then its squirrel and public pool clips, then other late-1950s suburban house exteriors.