Michigan USA-1960: Autumn Trees Along Road

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Year1960
Decade1960s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Michigan

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Autumn Trees Along Road — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a scenic autumn drive through Michigan. The camera moves steadily along a road, revealing a dense forest with trees ablaze in fall colors—vibrant reds, oranges, and yellows alongside lingering greens. The footage has a classic Super 8 grain and slight color fading, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century Americana feel. The perspective suggests a view from a moving vehicle, with the road curving gently through the wooded landscape under an overcast sky.

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: 125496925

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 2039 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: d danielar
Reel-level year note: 1960
Reel-level location note: detroit michigan
Date: 1960 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: Useful for 1960s Michigan road-travel, autumn landscape, or mid-century home-movie atmosphere in documentaries, education pieces, and editorial cutaways.
Period detail: The clip may show a 1960 rural or wooded roadside view, with no visible vehicles, signage, buildings, or landmarks to further identify the exact place.
Home-movie behavior: The moving viewpoint feels like a passenger filming casually through or from a vehicle during an autumn drive, without staged action or posed subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a paved road edge, dense deciduous trees, red and orange autumn foliage, lingering green leaves, pale sky, and soft 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a soft 8mm color look with visible grain, mild fading, gate shadows, and slight exposure variation that support its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, seasonal transition, memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway between Midwestern family or road-trip scenes.
Historical context: The scene documents a quiet wooded roadside in fall, offering environmental and seasonal context rather than evidence of a specific event or public site.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any broader location or property questions should be verified before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960 8mm Michigan autumn drive, vintage home movie fall trees, rural road foliage, and mid-century American landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel travel footage, then other 1960 Michigan material, then broader autumn road, wooded landscape, or vintage home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Michigan 8mm frame showing a wooded roadside with mixed autumn colors and a pale sky. — Wooded roadside with fall foliage seen from a moving vehicle.

1960 Michigan roadside view with a gentle curve and dense autumn trees in red, orange, yellow, and green. — Roadside curve passing a dense stand of fall-colored trees.

1960 Michigan 8mm view of roadside woods with birch-like trunks and layered fall foliage. — Autumn woods fill the frame beside the road.

1960 Michigan home-movie frame of a roadside tree line with red and yellow fall foliage. — Fall-colored tree line viewed from the road.

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