Michigan USA-1960: Drawbridge Over Water With Steel Towers

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

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Drawbridge Over Water With Steel Towers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1960, this vintage home movie captures a historic drawbridge in Michigan, its massive steel towers rising over calm water. The bridge's truss structure and raised sections reveal mid-century engineering, with a distant shoreline of trees and buildings under a soft sky. The footage shows subtle camera movement, likely handheld, with natural film grain and slight color fading typical of Super 8 reels. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of American infrastructure and everyday life from the 1960s, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

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: 125497302

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 requests needing 1960s Michigan home-movie footage of a steel drawbridge, waterfront infrastructure, or mid-century American transportation cutaways.
Period detail: The frames show a steel truss drawbridge with lift towers, calm water, low waterfront buildings, and a wooded shoreline consistent with the supplied 1960 Michigan metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a visitor or resident filming from a nearby elevated spot, recording the bridge as an everyday landmark rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include steel bridge towers, truss spans, water below, shoreline trees, low buildings, a pale sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, exposure variation, and gate edges that give the brief view clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, infrastructure cutaway, waterfront transition, or memory beat within a Michigan or mid-century travel sequence.
Historical context: The clip gives visual context for a car-era waterfront townscape and large movable bridge engineering without proving a specific landmark from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but bridge identity, location specifics, copyright status, and any property considerations should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960 8mm Michigan drawbridge, vintage home movie steel bridge, waterfront truss bridge footage, and mid-century American infrastructure.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel material, then other Michigan 1960 footage, then bridge, waterfront, roadway, town, or industrial infrastructure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Michigan 8mm frame showing a steel drawbridge with lift towers, truss span, water, low buildings, and trees beyond. — Steel lift-bridge towers and trusswork span calm water near a wooded shoreline.

1960 Michigan home-movie view of a steel drawbridge, water surface, distant trees, and low shoreline structures. — The bridge fills the frame, with its steel towers set against trees and a soft sky.

1960 Michigan 8mm still of a steel truss drawbridge crossing water, with lift towers, trees, and small buildings in the background. — A closer home-movie view emphasizes the drawbridge truss and paired steel towers.

1960 Michigan frame showing the drawbridge structure, water below, distant wooded slope, and low waterfront buildings. — The final frame holds on the bridge span, water, and tree-lined shore beyond.

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