Mackinaw City Michigan-1959: Lakeside Park with Cars and Bridge

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

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Lakeside Park with Cars and Bridge — Clip Details

MACKINAW CITY MICHIGAN-1959: Vintage 8mm film captures a sun-drenched lakeside park with classic American cars parked along a winding road. A long bridge spans the water in the distance, while American flags flutter near a grassy area with shrubs and trees. The footage shows a quiet, nostalgic day at a recreational spot, with a 'PARKING' sign visible and the film's characteristic grain and color fade adding to its authentic 1950s home movie feel. This archival clip evokes mid-century Americana and leisure.

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: 125574483

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 1101 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: north pole,game farm,amusement park, reel 2
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: new york
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: Mackinaw City, 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: Supports 1950s New York leisure, lakeside roadway, and mid-century park cutaway needs for documentary, museum, education, or period-commercial edits.
Period detail: The parked American cars, small roadside sign, flags, open lawns, shrubs, and distant bridge may show a late-1950s public recreation area beside water.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, observing a quiet park road and waterfront from a casual home-movie distance without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include classic cars, a curving park road, grass, shrubs, trees, small flags, a parking sign, water, and a long bridge in the background.
Film character: The 8mm footage has soft focus, faded color, visible grain, gate edges, dust marks, and slight handheld steadiness typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, transition, waterfront cutaway, or memory beat for mid-century travel and recreation sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects car-oriented park access and casual waterfront leisure in a New York setting, based on the supplied metadata and visible roadway layout.
Research note: No people, logos, or private-property interiors are visible, but users should still confirm copyright status and any location or property considerations.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1959 New York 8mm lakeside park, vintage home movie bridge background, classic cars near water, and 1950s parking sign footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel park or waterfront shots, then New York 1959 material, then broader 1950s recreation, bridges, flags, and classic-car scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 New York home-movie frame showing classic cars parked near a lakeside park road with trees, shrubs, and a bridge beyond the water. — Classic cars line a park road near water, with trees and a long bridge in the distance.

1959 New York lakeside park view with parked mid-century cars along a road and a long bridge visible across the water. — A quiet park roadway with parked cars faces the water and distant bridge.

1959 New York home-movie frame of a waterfront park lawn with small flags, shrubs, a signpost, and open water in the background. — Small flags and a roadside sign stand near a lawn overlooking the water.

1959 New York park scene showing a parking sign near shrubs and small flags along a waterfront lawn, with water beyond. — A parking sign and small flags mark a quiet waterfront park area.

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