Grand Rapids Michigan USA-1958: Tailfin Cars in Suburban Street, Grand Rapids

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationGrand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Michigan

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Tailfin Cars in Suburban Street, Grand Rapids — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1958 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, showing a quiet suburban neighborhood. The clip features classic American cars with prominent tailfins parked in front of single-story homes with light-colored siding and brick accents. The scene includes manicured lawns, concrete driveways, and a street with a distinct curb. The footage has a characteristic 1950s color palette with faded blues and greens, grainy texture, and slight camera shake, capturing a nostalgic slice of mid-century American life.

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: 120809309

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 1210 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: bill's first birthday,blueberry field
Reel-level year note: 1956-1957-1958
Reel-level location note: michigan
Date: 1958 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: Grand Rapids, 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: This clip supports requests for 1950s American suburban street life, mid-century residential exteriors, and parked classic cars for documentary or period-setting edits.
Period detail: Visible era clues include finned American automobiles, single-story houses, curbside parking, concrete drives, small lawns, and the faded color response associated with 1958 8mm home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged value of a casual home-movie pan across a quiet residential block, observing parked cars and houses without posed subjects or visible activity.
What appears in frame: The frames show light-colored ranch-style homes, brick accents, parked tailfin cars, a curb and paved street, narrow lawns, driveways, windows, and soft background trees.
Film character: The scan carries grain, slight blur, color fading toward blue-green, uneven exposure, and handheld drift that read as physical 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing cutaway, memory beat, neighborhood transition, or visual bridge for mid-century domestic life in the United States.
Historical context: The scene visually reflects postwar suburban residential space through modest single-story homes, lawns, driveways, and automobile-centered street frontage without identifying a specific household or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but visible residential exteriors and car designs should still be reviewed separately for copyright, property, trademark, and contextual use concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 Grand Rapids Michigan home movie, 1950s suburban neighborhood street, 8mm parked classic cars, mid-century ranch houses, and tailfin cars on residential block.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Grand Rapids street or neighborhood footage, then broader 1950s suburban home-movie car and housing scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Grand Rapids, Michigan home-movie frame showing parked finned cars beside single-story suburban houses with lawns and a paved street. — Parked cars outside suburban homes.

1958 Grand Rapids, Michigan frame with a light-colored classic car at the curb, a darker car near a driveway, and ranch-style homes behind them. — Classic cars along a residential curb.

1958 Grand Rapids, Michigan home-movie frame showing parked cars along a suburban block with single-story homes, lawns, a utility pole, and soft 8mm blur. — Suburban block with parked cars.

1958 Grand Rapids, Michigan frame showing two classic cars near a driveway, low residential houses, green lawns, and a paved curbside street. — Tailfin cars near suburban driveways.

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