Wisconsin USA-1957: Man Walking Past House and Mailbox

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Man Walking Past House and Mailbox — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Wisconsin, USA, in 1957, showing a quiet suburban scene. The clip opens with a view of a brick house through bare trees, with a white mailbox visible in the yard. A man in period-appropriate clothing walks past the house, adding a human element to the nostalgic setting. The footage captures the natural surroundings with a calm, observational style, featuring a mix of trees, a distant body of water, and overcast skies. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural light, evoking a sense of mid-century Americana and personal memory.

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: 121495233

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 1219 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: oke lake,cottage,ice fishing,swimming
Reel-level year note: 1957
Reel-level location note: wisconsin
Date: 1957 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: Wisconsin, 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: 1950s Wisconsin home-movie exterior useful for documentary requests needing a quiet residential cutaway with trees, water, and a passing adult figure.
Period detail: The frame may show mid-century residential details in the brick house, white-trimmed windows, mailbox, bare trees, and subdued outdoor clothing.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a nearby yard or roadside, holding on the house and landscape as an adult man briefly passes through the domestic scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a brick house, white-trimmed windows, bare trees, a yard mailbox, distant water, overcast sky, and an adult man near the house.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, handheld framing, mild gate edges, muted color, and visible grain that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a residential establishing insert, a memory transition, or a quiet cutaway between family or place-based scenes.
Historical context: The clip presents an ordinary Wisconsin residential setting in 1957, emphasizing house, yard, winter-bare trees, and nearby water rather than a public event.
Research note: An adult person and a private residence appear visible, so likeness and property review may be needed separately from copyright or source licensing.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1957 Wisconsin 8mm house exterior, mid-century home movie mailbox, suburban trees and water, and man walking past house.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1957 Wisconsin exteriors, and then with broader home-movie residential landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Wisconsin 8mm frame of a brick house seen through bare trees, with white trim, yard, and water in the distance. — Brick house and bare trees frame a quiet residential exterior near water.

1957 Wisconsin exterior view with bare tree trunks, a house partly hidden behind them, and water beyond the yard. — Bare trees and a partially hidden house sit beside a distant body of water.

1957 Wisconsin home-movie frame showing a white mailbox among bare trees, with a house edge, yard, and water in the background. — A white mailbox stands near trees in the yard outside the house.

1957 Wisconsin 8mm frame with an adult man walking near a brick house, white-trimmed window, trees, water, and a mailbox. — An adult man passes the brick house near the trees and yard mailbox.

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