Michigan USA-1960: Road Past Autumn Trees with Lake and Bridge

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

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Road Past Autumn Trees with Lake and Bridge — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a scenic autumn drive through Michigan. The footage shows a winding road flanked by trees ablaze with red, orange, and yellow foliage under an overcast sky. The camera moves steadily forward, revealing a tranquil lakeside view with a long bridge stretching across the water and a small house nestled on the shore. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American road trip.

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: 125496933

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s editorial sequences needing Michigan home-movie road travel, autumn foliage, lakeside scenery, or a quiet mid-century travel insert.
Period detail: The visible road, wooded shoreline, muted color stock, and metadata-supported 1960 date may show a mid-century Michigan leisure drive rather than a staged travel scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged passenger-view perspective, moving from a wooded roadside to a brief lakeside look across water and a bridge.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a paved road, autumn trees, wooded embankments, overcast sky, lake water, shoreline buildings, and a long bridge.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, color fading, and exposure variation that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a transition, travel insert, seasonal cutaway, or reflective memory beat between Michigan road and lake material.
Historical context: The footage documents ordinary scenic travel and landscape observation in Michigan, with emphasis on foliage, road movement, and lakeside infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but shoreline structures and bridge identification may still require project-specific copyright, property, or location review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960 Michigan 8mm road trip, vintage autumn foliage drive, home movie lake bridge, and mid-century American travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Michigan 1960 material, then broader autumn road, lake, bridge, and American home-movie travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Michigan 8mm frame showing a roadside view of autumn trees on a sloped wooded embankment beneath an overcast sky. — Autumn trees line a roadside embankment during the Michigan drive.

1960 Michigan home-movie frame looking along a road bordered by dense autumn trees and a low, cloudy sky. — The road continues alongside a wooded slope with late-season foliage.

1960 Michigan 8mm frame from a moving vehicle, looking down a quiet road between wooded autumn embankments. — A forward road view passes between wooded autumn embankments.

1960 Michigan home-movie frame showing lake water, a shoreline house, and a long bridge under a heavy overcast sky. — The clip ends on a lakeside view with a shoreline building and bridge across the water.

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