Michigan-1959: Three Men in Living Room, One Talking on Phone

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 in Michigan

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Three Men in Living Room, One Talking on Phone — Clip Details

MICHIGAN-1959: Three men relax in a vintage living room, captured on 8mm film. One man in a white tank top sits in a green upholstered chair, talking on an old rotary phone. Another man in a light blue short-sleeve shirt sits nearby, while a third man in a white polo with a striped tie smiles at a dining table. The room features floral wallpaper, a glass lamp on a side table, and a small TV in the background. The footage shows natural film grain and color shifts typical of 1950s home movies, evoking a nostalgic, intimate atmosphere of family life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Interior
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: 125573557

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: 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 2228 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: howard black,
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: flint michigan
Date: 1959 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 1950s Michigan home-life requests needing adult men relaxing indoors in real 8mm family footage for documentary, museum, education, or editorial use.
Period detail: Visible era clues include floral wallpaper, a glass table lamp, upholstered living-room seating, short-sleeve shirts, a striped tie, a rotary-style telephone, and a small television.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has unstaged domestic value as the men sit, talk by phone, smile, and spend time together without performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: The frames show three adult men, a green upholstered chair, floral wallpaper, a side table and lamp, a telephone, a dining table with dishes, and a small television.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, color shifts, and slight handheld framing that support its home-movie archive character.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a domestic insert, family-memory beat, period living-room cutaway, or quiet transition between broader 1950s household scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents a private indoor social setting in Michigan in 1959, showing adult men gathered casually around seating and a dining area.
Research note: Faces and a private interior are visible, so likeness, privacy, and property permissions may need review separately from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1959 Michigan home movie, 1950s living room, men relaxing indoors, rotary phone, vintage wallpaper, and 8mm family footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Michigan 1959 interiors, then broader 1950s home, family gathering, telephone, or television scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Michigan home-movie frame of an adult man in a white tank top sitting in a green chair and using a telephone in a living room. — A man sits back in a green upholstered chair while talking on the telephone in a floral-wallpapered living room.

1959 Michigan interior frame showing an adult man in a light blue short-sleeve shirt seated in a vintage living room. — A seated man in a light short-sleeve shirt faces the camera area against patterned wallpaper.

1959 Michigan home interior frame of a seated adult man in a light shirt, softly lit against floral wallpaper. — The camera lingers on a seated man in a light shirt, with the living-room wallpaper filling the background.

1959 Michigan home-movie frame of a smiling adult man at a dining table with dishes, a striped tie, and a small television nearby. — A smiling man sits at the dining table near stacked dishes, with a small television visible in the background.

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