Grand Rapids Michigan USA-1956: Construction Of Home

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationGrand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 Grand Rapids Michigan

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Construction Of Home — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm footage from Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, in 1956 captures the construction of a residential home. The clip shows workers actively building a single-story house with a red-tiled roof, using ladders and wooden scaffolding. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural film imperfections, offering an authentic look at mid-century American home construction. The scene includes men in period-appropriate clothing working on framing and exterior finishing, with a partially completed structure and visible tools. This archival home movie provides a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century building practices and community life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121494140

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only 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.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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: 1956 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: Useful for 1950s U.S. residential construction sequences, especially documentary inserts on postwar homebuilding, labor, or family home-movie records.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century house construction details, including wood ladders, simple scaffolding, exterior sheathing, and a low single-story roofline.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an informal home-movie viewpoint, observing workers and the house exterior without staged action or formal construction coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include ladders against a house, dark exterior sheathing, unfinished wall surfaces, porch posts, roofline, scaffolding, dust, and workers.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, uneven exposure, color fading, frame-edge darkness, and light film wear that support its home-movie archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief construction cutaway, a memory beat for building a family home, or a transition into mid-century suburban life.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary residential building activity in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with workers, tools, and exterior home construction visible.
Research note: People and possible product or material markings are visible, so likeness, trademark, and property context should be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s 8mm home construction, Grand Rapids residential building footage, mid-century workers, ladders, scaffolding, and home movie construction.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1956 Grand Rapids material, then with other residential construction or mid-century home life footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Grand Rapids home-movie frame showing ladders against an unfinished residential exterior with dark sheathing and wall surface visible. — Ladders rest against the upper exterior of a house under construction.

1956 Grand Rapids construction frame with a ladder, leaning boards, upper window area, and unfinished exterior surfaces on a residential building. — Boards and ladders lean against the upper wall of the partially finished house.

1956 Grand Rapids home construction view showing a low-roofed single-story house, porch area, open doorway, and hazy foreground. — A low single-story house is filmed from outside as construction continues.

1956 Grand Rapids frame showing workers at a residential construction site beside scaffolding, porch posts, and the front of a single-story house. — Workers appear near scaffolding and the porch area of the house under construction.

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