Grand Rapids Michigan USA-1958: Suburban House with Chain Link Fence, Mowed Lawn, and Vintage Car

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

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Suburban House with Chain Link Fence, Mowed Lawn, and... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1958 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, showing a classic suburban house with dark green siding and white-trimmed windows. A chain-link fence encloses the front yard, where a mowed lawn and a prominent dark-leafed shrub or small tree are visible. A bicycle wheel appears in the right foreground, and a vintage car is partially seen on the left. The scene captures a quiet, sunlit day with natural daylight and authentic film grain, evoking mid-century American domestic life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120809401

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s archival home-movie footage useful for productions needing a brief suburban Grand Rapids residential exterior, domestic neighborhood cutaway, or mid-century American housing insert.
Period detail: The dark horizontal siding, white-trimmed windows, chain-link fence, clipped lawn, and partial older automobile may show mid-century suburban domestic detail consistent with the supplied 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes a familiar front yard and house from a casual home-movie vantage, preserving an unstaged look at everyday residential surroundings rather than a posed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a two-story house facade, white window trim, chain-link fence, mowed lawn, dark-leafed shrub or small tree, bare or thin-branched tree, front steps, bicycle wheel, and a partial car at frame edge.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, visible grain, mild color shift, slight handheld drift, and uneven exposure that give the short exterior view a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a residential establishing insert, neighborhood transition, memory beat, or domestic cutaway between family or suburban life scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for postwar American suburban domestic space through a modest house, fenced yard, lawn care, and ordinary household objects visible from the street or yard.
Research note: Rights review should consider the visible residential exterior, possible people flag in the source metadata despite no clear faces in these frames, and the distinction between copyright status, likeness, and property considerations.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Grand Rapids home movie house exterior, 1950s Michigan suburban yard, 8mm chain-link fence lawn, mid-century residential facade, and vintage family-film neighborhood cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1958 Grand Rapids residential or family footage, and then with broader 1950s suburban home, lawn, fence, bicycle, and neighborhood material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Grand Rapids home-movie frame showing a suburban house with dark siding, white-trimmed windows, a chain-link fence, mowed lawn, large dark shrub, and a partial vintage car at the left edge. — House front with fence, lawn, shrub, and partial car.

1958 Grand Rapids home-movie frame of a dark-sided suburban house with white-trimmed windows, chain-link fence, lawn, front steps, large shrub, and a bicycle wheel near the right foreground. — Dark-sided house with chain-link fence and bicycle wheel.

1958 Grand Rapids frame showing a slightly softer home-movie view of the suburban house front, with white-trimmed windows, chain-link fence, mowed lawn, dark shrub, and roofline visible. — Soft-focused house front behind a fenced lawn.

1958 Grand Rapids home-movie frame of a suburban house exterior with dark siding, white-trimmed windows, chain-link fence, front steps, mowed lawn, large dark shrub, and a thin tree at the right edge. — Suburban house facade with front steps and fenced lawn.

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