Grand Rapids Michigan USA-1956: Land Clearing Construction Development

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

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Land Clearing Construction Development — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, in 1956, showing a land clearing and construction site. The grainy, monochrome film captures scattered debris, fallen tree limbs, and construction materials under an overcast sky. A bare tree stands in the foreground as the camera pans across the cleared landscape, revealing distant structures and a quiet, post-development atmosphere. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and slight motion blur, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana and suburban expansion.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 121494158

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: 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. documentary edits needing home-movie evidence of land clearing, construction preparation, or suburban development near Grand Rapids.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century land development through felled tree limbs, open ground, distant low structures, and a sparse winter or early-spring landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the site informally from a home-movie perspective, lingering on debris, bare trees, and distant figures rather than staged construction activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include fallen branches, piled brush, muddy or snowy ground, a bare tree, distant structures, small human figures, and soft overcast light.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, exposure variation, gate edges, and handheld framing that give the scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, transition, or memory beat for land transformation, neighborhood growth, or construction-before-development sequences.
Historical context: The clip visually suggests postwar-era land alteration and local development, while the frames themselves do not identify a specific project or property.
Research note: People appear only as distant figures, but likeness, property, and project identification should be reviewed separately from any copyright clearance.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1950s Grand Rapids land clearing footage, 8mm construction site home movie, fallen trees development, and mid-century suburban expansion.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1956 Grand Rapids material, then broader land clearing, construction, and development footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Grand Rapids home-movie frame showing felled branches and brush across a cleared or disturbed site. — Brush and fallen limbs cover the ground at the clearing site.

Tangled tree limbs and debris appear across a cleared Grand Rapids site in this soft 8mm frame from 1956. — Felled limbs lie across the disturbed ground.

Fallen branches and rough ground sit before distant structures in 1956 Grand Rapids land-clearing footage. — Branches and debris fill the foreground, with structures faintly visible beyond.

A bare tree stands beside an open cleared area in Grand Rapids, with small distant people visible in the 1956 frame. — A bare tree frames the cleared landscape, with distant figures on the horizon.

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