Grand Rapids Michigan USA-1956: Constructing A Mobile Home With Workers And Classic Truck

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

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Constructing A Mobile Home With Workers And Classic Truck — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1956, showing the construction of a mobile or prefabricated building. The grainy, color-bleached film captures a work site with scattered wooden planks, debris, and a classic blue pickup truck. A mobile home unit is being assembled on a grassy lot, with two men working on its exterior. The scene includes utility poles and bare trees in the background, conveying a mid-century American construction project. The footage exhibits natural film grain, slight blurriness, and authentic 1950s color tones, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century residential development.

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: 121494177

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. residential construction, prefabricated housing, mobile home assembly, or mid-century worksite cutaways in documentary and education edits.
Period detail: The blue pickup, simple utility poles, bare trees, white wall panels, and open grassy lot support a mid-1950s Grand Rapids construction setting from the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The short home-movie view feels casually observed from near the structure, catching worksite materials, passing cars, and workers without staged presentation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white structural framing, lumber piles, a blue pickup truck, utility poles, bare trees, roadside traffic, grass, and partially assembled wall panels.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, faded color, visible grain, exposure variation, and handheld framing that give the worksite a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, transition, or cutaway for mid-century housing, trailer construction, suburban development, or blue-collar work scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually places a small-scale building project beside roads and open land, suggesting everyday postwar residential or mobile-structure work without naming a specific development.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may apply; no logos are evident, and copyright, property, and location claims should be checked separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1956 Grand Rapids 8mm construction footage, mobile home assembly, prefabricated building worksite, vintage pickup truck, and mid-century housing scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1956 Grand Rapids material, and then with broader clips on mobile homes, construction sites, or postwar housing.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Grand Rapids home-movie frame showing white framing, scattered lumber, cars, and utility poles around a construction site. — White framing and lumber sit near a roadside construction area.

1956 Grand Rapids worksite view with a blue pickup truck, open grass, utility poles, and roadside construction materials. — A blue pickup truck stands near the open construction site.

Faded 8mm frame from the Grand Rapids site showing pale building panels, a tree, road edge, and loose lumber. — Overexposed film captures wall panels and scattered boards near the road.

Close 1956 Grand Rapids construction view with white framing, angled lumber, wall sections, and debris at the mobile or prefabricated structure. — White framing and angled lumber fill the close worksite view.

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