Michigan USA-1960: Bascule Bridge and Young Musician in Band Uniform

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

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Bascule Bridge and Young Musician in Band Uniform — Clip Details

MICHIGAN USA-1960: This vintage 8mm home movie captures a classic mid-century scene featuring a large bascule bridge spanning a river, its steel truss structure and raised towers prominent against a backdrop of green hills and residential buildings. The footage, shot from a moving vehicle or boat, shows the bridge in its open position, with water below and a suburban landscape beyond. The final frame shifts to a young boy in a blue marching band uniform with a gold-plumed hat, playing a saxophone in a sunlit backyard garden, embodying 1960s Americana nostalgia. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and authentic Super 8 characteristics.

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: 125497304

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: Yes

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 home-movie requests needing a bridge view, local travel texture, or a brief family-life music cutaway.
Period detail: The steel bascule bridge, riverside homes, mature foliage, and marching band uniform may show mid-century regional civic and family settings.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot feel, moving past the bridge before shifting to a posed backyard moment with a uniformed saxophone player.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a steel lift bridge, river, wooded hillside, riverside buildings, backyard lawn, garden plantings, and a uniformed saxophone player.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, gate edges, and handheld framing consistent with home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, local landmark cutaway, or personal-memory beat around music or youth activities.
Historical context: The footage places industrial bridge infrastructure beside residential river scenery and a domestic backyard performance setting.
Research note: Review likeness rights for the visible person and confirm any music rights separately; copyright, likeness, and property issues require separate clearance checks.
Research search match: Searches such as 1960s Michigan 8mm bridge footage, home movie bascule bridge, backyard marching band uniform, or saxophone home movie may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then Michigan or 1960 bridge footage, then home-movie themes of civic landmarks, youth music, and backyard family scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1960 Michigan home-movie frame showing a steel bascule bridge, river, and wooded residential hillside. — A steel lift bridge spans the river with trees and houses in the background.

1960 Michigan bridge view with lift towers, steel trusswork, river, and distant hillside homes. — The camera passes the bridge structure, emphasizing its lift towers and truss span.

Soft 8mm frame of a Michigan bascule bridge over water, with hillside foliage and buildings beyond. — The bridge remains in view as the moving camera looks across the river.

1960 Michigan home-movie frame of a uniformed saxophone player posed on a backyard lawn near garden plantings. — A person in a blue marching band uniform stands with a saxophone in a backyard garden.

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