Michigan-1959: Woman Cleans Bathtub In Retro Bathroom

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

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Woman Cleans Bathtub In Retro Bathroom — Clip Details

A woman in a white blouse and black skirt cleans her bathtub in a 1959 Michigan home. Shot on 8mm film, this vintage home movie captures her scrubbing the tiled tub with a yellow cloth. The bathroom features white square tiles, a green curtain, and a wooden door frame. A dark cabinet with books and a vase sits in the adjacent room. The footage shows natural film grain and color shifts typical of mid-century home movies, offering a nostalgic glimpse into domestic life.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 125573767

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: 1950s Michigan home-movie footage suited to documentary or educational requests about domestic routines, bathroom interiors, and mid-century household labor.
Period detail: The tiled bathtub surround, green curtain, white blouse, dark skirt, and 8mm color palette may show late-1950s domestic interior style.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears to clean the tub for the camera, giving the clip an informal home-movie view of ordinary household work.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman cleaning a bathtub, square wall tiles, a yellow cloth, a green curtain, a wooden door frame, and a dark cabinet with books and a vase.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, and color shifts consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a domestic-life insert, a household-cleaning cutaway, or a quiet memory beat between broader family scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents a private bathroom interior and everyday cleaning activity, useful as visual context for mid-century home life without implying a broader social event.
Research note: People and a private interior are visible, so likeness and property considerations should be reviewed separately from any copyright assessment.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1950s Michigan home movie, woman cleaning bathtub, retro bathroom interior, 8mm domestic life, and mid-century household chores.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1959 Michigan home interiors, and finally with related domestic cleaning or household routine footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In a 1959 Michigan home-movie frame, a woman sits beside a bathtub with a yellow cleaning cloth in a tiled bathroom. — Woman begins cleaning beside a tiled bathtub with a yellow cloth.

The woman raises a yellow cloth to scrub the tiled wall above the bathtub in the Michigan bathroom scene. — Woman scrubs the tile wall above the bathtub.

The woman bends over the bathtub, using a yellow cloth near the tub edge in a tiled 1959 Michigan bathroom. — Woman leans forward while cleaning the bathtub edge.

The final frame shows the woman seated beside the bathtub, continuing to clean the tub area with a yellow cloth. — Woman continues wiping the tub area in the tiled bathroom.

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