Grand Rapids Michigan USA-1956: Workers Stacking Timber and Red Truck at Lumberyard

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

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Workers Stacking Timber and Red Truck at Lumberyard — Clip Details

Vintage 1956 home movie footage from Grand Rapids, Michigan, showing a lumberyard or construction site with workers stacking raw timber. The 8mm film captures a red truck transporting materials across a dusty lot, with wooden planks and debris scattered throughout. A small building and bare trees appear in the background under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and film scratches, conveying a nostalgic, industrial Americana atmosphere. Workers in period clothing move about the site, highlighting mid-century labor and material handling.

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: 121494169

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s U.S. home-movie coverage of lumberyard work, construction materials, and small-scale industrial activity in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Period detail: The cars, work clothing, raw timber piles, simple yard structures, and faded 8mm color support a mid-1950s industrial or construction-yard setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a casual home-movie distance, catching workers and vehicles in ordinary movement rather than staged demonstration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include timber stacks, a red truck, workers near a small building, bare trees, scattered boards, open yard space, and a close view of a period car.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm focus, muted color, uneven exposure, visible scratches, and slight handheld framing that preserve its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway or transition for mid-century labor, material handling, construction supply, or regional industrial memory.
Historical context: The clip visually situates manual work and material movement in an open Michigan yard without identifying a specific business or event.
Research note: People are visible and private-property context is possible, so likeness and property review may be needed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1950s Grand Rapids lumberyard, 8mm home movie workers stacking timber, red truck construction yard, and mid-century material handling.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then other 1956 Grand Rapids footage, then broader 1950s labor, lumber, truck, or construction-yard material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Grand Rapids home-movie frame showing an open lumberyard or construction lot with timber piles and a distant red truck. — Open yard with stacked lumber and a red truck beyond the boards.

1956 Grand Rapids frame with a small yard building, bare trees, scattered lumber, and open ground under a muted sky. — Small building and scattered lumber in an open work yard.

1956 Grand Rapids home-movie view of workers near a small building, with boards, yard debris, and bare trees around them. — Workers move around a small yard building with lumber nearby.

Close 1956 Grand Rapids home-movie frame showing the side of a light-colored period car with another dark vehicle partly behind it. — Close view of a period car parked near the yard activity.

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