Michigan USA-1958: White Woman Picking Blueberry By Hand With A Blue Shirt In A

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Michigan

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White Woman Picking Blueberry By Hand With A Blue Shirt In A — Clip Details

A vintage 1958 home movie clip from Michigan, USA, showing a woman in a blue shirt picking ripe blueberries by hand from a bush. The footage captures close-up shots of her hand gently harvesting the fruit, with lush green leaves and clusters of blue and purple berries in focus. The scene unfolds in a sunlit outdoor garden or farm setting, with natural light highlighting the rich colors of the harvest. The film exhibits classic 8mm grain, color fading, and soft focus typical of mid-century home movies, evoking a nostalgic, authentic slice of Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 121496556

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: 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: 1958 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: 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: Supports requests for 1950s Michigan home-movie footage of hand harvesting, small-scale fruit picking, and domestic agricultural leisure or food-gathering scenes.
Period detail: The blue shirt, handheld 8mm color footage, and sunlit garden or berry patch may show mid-century informal outdoor clothing and amateur filming style.
Home-movie behavior: A woman appears relaxed while picking berries by hand, giving the clip an unstaged family-film view of seasonal food gathering.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blueberry clusters, green leaves, hands reaching into bushes, a woman in a blue shirt, bright sky, sandy ground, and soft garden rows.
Film character: The footage has saturated 8mm color, soft focus, strong sunlight, intermittent framing, and visible film grain that give it a mid-century home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a harvest insert, domestic food cutaway, rural memory beat, or transition within a sequence about summer, farming, or family life.
Historical context: The scene places fruit picking in an informal outdoor setting, reflecting everyday home-movie attention to seasonal activity rather than staged agricultural documentation.
Research note: A recognizable adult face appears, so likeness review may be needed even if no brands, music, children, or clear private property are visible in these frames.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Michigan 8mm blueberry picking, woman harvesting berries, vintage home movie fruit picking, and mid-century garden harvest footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Michigan 1958 outdoor scenes, then related berry picking, gardening, farming, or food preparation clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close-up from 1958 Michigan 8mm footage showing hands picking blueberries among green leaves and blue-purple fruit clusters. — Hands reach into a blueberry bush during a sunlit picking scene.

Blueberry clusters and green foliage fill the frame, with a picker’s hand partly visible in the 1958 Michigan home-movie shot. — Blueberries and leaves fill a close-up frame as picking continues.

A woman in a blue shirt crouches beside blueberry bushes in a sunlit Michigan outdoor setting, seen in 1958 8mm home-movie footage. — A woman crouches beside berry bushes while picking blueberries.

A smiling woman in a blue shirt is framed beside blueberry bushes, with garden rows and sky behind her in 1958 Michigan home-movie footage. — The berry picker looks toward the camera from beside the bushes.

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