Grand Rapids Michigan USA-1958: Video Of Houses And Autos In A Neighborhood

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

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Video Of Houses And Autos In A Neighborhood — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1958 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, showing a quiet suburban neighborhood. The clip captures modest single-story homes with light-colored siding and dark roofs, surrounded by green lawns, bushes, and trees. A classic automobile is parked in a driveway, and power lines run along the street. The film exhibits characteristic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and soft focus, with a handheld camera panning slowly across the scene. The overall mood is nostalgic and peaceful, capturing a slice of mid-century American domestic 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: 120809373

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 Grand Rapids residential neighborhood atmosphere, especially documentary or educational edits needing brief suburban exterior context.
Period detail: Visible era clues include modest single-story houses, older parked automobiles, overhead utility poles, small lawns, and dense plantings that fit the supplied 1958 home-movie metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld pan gives an unstaged home-movie view of nearby houses and yards rather than a planned architectural survey.
What appears in frame: The frames show light-sided houses, dark roofs, windows, shrubs, lawns, utility poles, parked cars, and a narrow residential street or driveway area.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, color drift toward blue and magenta, and slight exposure variation from handheld daylight filming.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short establishing insert, neighborhood cutaway, transition between domestic scenes, or memory beat for mid-century Michigan suburbia.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for postwar American residential streetscapes without showing residents, commercial signage, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or indicated, but residential exteriors appear and copyright, location, and property considerations should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Grand Rapids home movie, 1950s Michigan neighborhood, 8mm suburban houses, vintage residential street, and mid-century parked cars.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Grand Rapids material, then broader 1950s American suburb, house exterior, lawn, and automobile clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Grand Rapids home-movie frame showing modest residential houses with dark roofs, green lawns, dense shrubs, utility poles, and a partly visible parked car. — Residential houses and lawns in a quiet Grand Rapids neighborhood.

1958 Grand Rapids residential exterior with a light-sided house, dark roof, bushes, lawn, overhead utility poles, and a parked automobile near the street. — Light-sided home with shrubbery and a parked car nearby.

1958 Grand Rapids home-movie view of a light-colored house with horizontal siding, a dark window, shrubs, lawn, utility poles, and a parked car in the background. — House exterior with siding, window, and yard plantings.

1958 Grand Rapids residential frame with a light-sided house, dark roof, windows, overgrown shrubs, lawn, utility poles, and a partial parked automobile. — Suburban house and yard seen during a handheld pan.

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