Holland Michigan-1969: Sunset over Ocean and Small Town Motel

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationHolland, Michigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Holland Michigan

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Sunset over Ocean and Small Town Motel — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a serene sunset over the ocean in Holland, Michigan. The golden sun dips below the horizon, casting warm orange and pink hues across the sky and reflecting on the calm water. A lone sailboat glides across the surface, silhouetted against the glowing sky. The scene transitions to a quiet roadside view of a small town, featuring a classic motel with a prominent sign, vintage cars parked along the street, and leafy trees under a clear blue sky. The footage exudes a peaceful, nostalgic atmosphere, with authentic film grain and color saturation characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the late 1960s.

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: 125594315

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: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1020 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: holland michigan
Date: 1969 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: Holland, 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 1960s Midwest travel, lakeshore sunset, and small-town roadside atmosphere in documentary, museum, or period montage edits.
Period detail: The motel sign, low roadside buildings, parked cars, overhead utility lines, and 8mm color palette may show late-1960s small-town travel infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, moving from a quiet sunset view to a brief roadside look at lodging and parked cars.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a low sun over water, clouded horizon, a small sailboat silhouette, motel buildings, roadside signs, vintage cars, trees, and utility wires.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, saturated color, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet edge density typical of amateur home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm establishing insert, travel transition, roadside cutaway, or memory beat between family-trip scenes.
Historical context: The footage visually situates leisure travel through lakeshore scenery and modest roadside lodging without documenting a specific public event.
Research note: No people are visible, but visible signage and commercial property should be reviewed for trademark, copyright, and location-identification concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1969 8mm Holland Michigan home movie, Lake Michigan sunset, small-town motel exterior, vintage roadside travel, and Midwest vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel scenes, then other Holland or Michigan 1969 material, then broader 1960s lakeshore and roadside motel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Holland, Michigan home-movie frame showing the sun low over open water, cloud bands, and a distant sailboat silhouette. — Low sun and clouded horizon over the water, with a small sailboat in silhouette.

1969 Holland, Michigan roadside view with a motel sign, low buildings, parked cars, trees, and overhead utility lines. — A quiet roadside motel scene with parked cars and trees under a blue sky.

1969 Holland, Michigan frame showing motel buildings, roadside signage, parked cars, trees, utility wires, and a broad street foreground. — Roadside lodging and parked cars appear across a wide street.

1969 Holland, Michigan roadside frame with a motel sign, parked cars, low buildings, tall trees, and overhead wires. — A small-town roadside motel view with vintage cars and tall trees.

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