Ohio-1968: Silver Aluminum Christmas Tree Lit by a Rotating Color Wheel

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationOhio, United States
Duration4s
Price$149 USD
Collection1968 · Ohio, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1966–1968 · Ohio · Reel 2d936bb1 contains 21 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

Christmas
mid-century home decor
holiday tradition
family home
nostalgia
consumer culture

Shot type: medium
Camera: handheld · tilt · pan
Setting: indoor · Domestic living room decorated for Christmas
Time and weather: unknown · winter · not visible
Lighting: Mixed interior light from the color wheel and a table lamp, with daylight diffused through sheer curtains
People: 0 · No people are visible.
Objects: aluminum Christmas tree · red baubles · rotating color wheel · Christmas stockings · red tablecloth · framed picture · table lamp · gold drapes · sheer curtains · toys
Colors: silver · red · gold · grey-blue
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

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The red-draped table with stockings, color wheel and floor toys fills the frame.
The camera tilts up the silver branches and red baubles.
A pan left reveals gold drapes and a lit table lamp.
The camera swings back down to the color wheel and decorated table.

Silver Aluminum Christmas Tree Lit by a Rotating Color Wheel — Clip Details

Likely Ohio in the American Midwest, circa 1968, home movie footage of a living room decorated for Christmas. A silver aluminum tree hung with red baubles stands on a red-draped table, with stockings hanging from the cloth and a rotating color wheel casting red, blue, green and amber light. The handheld camera tilts up the branches, pans left past gold drapes to a table lamp, then swings back down to the table and toys on the floor. It is a single short shot on small-gauge colour film.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: InteriorHandheld
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: 4s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002176

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People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1968 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Ohio, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Answers requests for a genuine 1960s American Christmas interior, especially the metallic tree and color wheel look, for documentaries, holiday spots and design histories.
Period detail: The silver aluminum tree, rotating color wheel, heavy gold drapes over sheer curtains and a lamp with a turned base may show late-1960s domestic taste.
Home-movie behavior: A family member films their own holiday display, sweeping the camera over the tree and room as they decorated it, with no staging for an outside audience.
What appears in frame: A silver tree covered in red baubles, a color wheel glowing red, green and amber, stockings hanging from a red-draped table, a framed picture, gold drapes and a lit table lamp.
Film character: Handheld movement, soft focus, visible grain and warm interior colour give it the authentic texture of small-gauge home-movie film captured from projection.
Edit role: Works as an establishing shot or cutaway that opens a Christmas sequence, or as a short nostalgic memory beat.
Historical context: Aluminum trees were usually lit by a color wheel rather than strings of bulbs, and the clip shows that setup in an ordinary family living room.
Research note: No people appear, but this is a private home interior and a framed picture is visible, so the film copyright and any artwork or property concerns should be considered apart from likeness.
Research search match: Researchers might search for aluminum Christmas tree home movie, 1960s color wheel Christmas, vintage tinsel tree footage or mid-century Christmas living room.
Archive pairing path: Pair it first with this reel's toddler and Christmas scenes and the toddler with toy telephone, then with other circa-1968 Ohio or Midwest home footage, then with other mid-century Christmas interiors.

Still Frames From This Clip

Silver aluminum Christmas tree, color wheel and stockings on a red-draped table in a living room, likely Ohio, circa 1968 — An aluminum tree and color wheel stand over a red-draped table hung with stockings, circa 1968.
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Metallic Christmas tree with red ornaments between gold drapes in a 1960s living room, likely Ohio, circa 1968 — The camera tilts up the silver branches, framed by gold drapes and sheer curtains.
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Table lamp, tied-back gold drape and aluminum tree with red baubles in a living room, likely Ohio, circa 1968 — A pan left brings a lit table lamp and tied-back drape into view beside the tree.
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Lamp with turned base, gold drapes and silver tree lit by an amber and green color wheel, likely Ohio, circa 1968 — The color wheel throws amber and green light as the camera swings back toward the table.
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