Grand Rapids Michigan USA-1958: Wind Blowing Through Tulips

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

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Wind Blowing Through Tulips — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1958, showing a vibrant flower bed of red, yellow, and orange tulips swaying in the wind against a green-sided house. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, capturing a nostalgic suburban spring scene. The camera remains steady, focusing on the colorful blooms and their gentle movement, with a dark green wall and shadows in the background. This authentic archival clip offers a charming glimpse into mid-century American domestic life and gardening.

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: 120809356

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 1958 Grand Rapids 8mm clip can support archival requests for mid-century American suburban springtime, home gardening, or quiet domestic exterior cutaways.
Period detail: The visible clapboard-style siding, planted tulip bed, small house window, and soft color rendition may show a modest late-1950s residential neighborhood setting.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged value of a home-movie camera lingering on flowers moving in the wind, preserving an ordinary household garden moment rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red, yellow, and orange tulips, green siding, a small house window, shrubs, a utility pole, lawn, shadows, and neighboring residential structures.
Film character: The clip shows 8mm film grain, slight blur, color shifts toward blue and green, and minor exposure variation that give the brief garden view its physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a springtime insert, domestic-life cutaway, seasonal transition, or memory beat within a 1950s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for mid-century residential gardening and yard space in Grand Rapids without identifying occupants, addresses, or a specific household history.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the residential exterior and possible neighboring homes should still be reviewed for property and copyright considerations.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1958 Grand Rapids 8mm tulips, 1950s Michigan home movie garden, wind blowing through flowers, and suburban spring yard footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Grand Rapids domestic exteriors, then broader 1950s home-garden and spring-flower footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Red, yellow, and orange tulips sway in front of dark green residential siding in 1958 Grand Rapids home-movie footage. — Tulips along a green-sided house.

A close view of colorful tulips against green siding shows the garden bed from a steady 8mm home-movie perspective in Grand Rapids, Michigan. — Colorful tulips against exterior siding.

The camera shifts to a residential exterior with shrubs, a lawn, a utility pole, and a small window, consistent with the Grand Rapids home-movie setting. — Shrubs and house window in a residential yard.

A soft-focused 8mm frame shows shrubs, a small window, lawn, and nearby residential structures in the same Grand Rapids exterior sequence. — Soft-focused residential yard and window.

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