Birmingham Alabama-1957: Man Cleaning The Roof Of His House With A Broom In

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Year1957
Decade1950s
LocationBirmingham, Alabama, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1957 Birmingham Alabama

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Man Cleaning The Roof Of His House With A Broom In — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1957, this vintage home movie captures a man cleaning the roof of a house in Birmingham, Alabama. Filmed through bare trees in a wooded setting, the footage shows the man working on the roof with a broom, with the house's dark siding and white-trimmed windows visible. The clip exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—slight grain, color shifts, and natural light—offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century domestic life and home maintenance.

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: 124931041

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.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People 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 1068 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: home construction 909 landale rd., jh wisdom
Reel-level year note: 1957
Reel-level location note: birmingham alabama
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: Birmingham, Alabama, 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 Birmingham home-movie footage for documentary or educational edits needing domestic upkeep, wooded suburban housing, or seasonal exterior maintenance.
Period detail: The dark-sided house, white-trimmed windows, bare trees, and roof work may show mid-century residential surroundings in Birmingham, Alabama.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged home-movie value, observing a man working on a roof from a distance through trees rather than presenting a posed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark house, white window trim, roofline, bare trees, a man on the roof, a broom, winter light, and soft 8mm framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows grain, mild color shift, soft focus, gate edges, and exposure variation that preserve the physical character of the original home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, memory beat, or transition for domestic life, home maintenance, winter setting, or Birmingham-area archival context.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for ordinary residential upkeep and wooded housing surroundings without making claims about neighborhood, ownership, or event specifics.
Research note: No faces, logos, or children are visible, but copyright, property, and contextual permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1957 Birmingham 8mm home movie, man cleaning roof with broom, winter house maintenance footage, and mid-century Alabama residential exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with Birmingham or 1957 home-movie material, then with domestic maintenance, winter exteriors, and mid-century housing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1957 Birmingham home-movie frame showing bare trees, a light roofline, and part of a dark house exterior. — Bare trees partially obscure the roof and exterior wall of the house.

1957 Birmingham frame with bare trees, a pale roof surface, and part of the house structure beneath it. — The roofline and tree trunks fill the frame, with the house partly visible below.

1957 Birmingham home-movie frame showing a man on a house roof with a broom or long tool, seen through bare trees. — A man works on the roof while the camera looks through trees.

1957 Birmingham frame showing the dark roof, white-trimmed windows, and tree trunks in front of the house. — The house exterior remains framed by tree trunks and soft blue film color.

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