Holland Michigan-1969: Lighthouse Pier with Fishing Boat on Lake

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

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Lighthouse Pier with Fishing Boat on Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside scene in Holland, Michigan. The footage features a long concrete pier extending into calm blue waters under a clear sky, with a small lighthouse at the end. A fishing boat floats in the distance, and a seagull glides over the water near the shore. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American lakeside memory.

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: 125594756

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 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1969 8mm Holland, Michigan lakeshore footage for documentary inserts needing a quiet pier, lighthouse, and fishing-boat view on Lake Michigan.
Period detail: The clip may show a late-1960s visitor view of a concrete pier, small lighthouse, open water, and workboat activity, with period clues mainly from the film stock and metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a casual visitor position near the pier and shoreline, preserving an unstaged lakeside travel moment rather than a composed commercial scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a concrete pier, small lighthouse, blue lake water, clear sky, distant fishing boat, shoreline edge, seagull, and dark contact-sheet borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, saturated blue tones, visible grain, gate shadows, and slight handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, waterside transition, travel-memory beat, or cutaway between broader 1960s Michigan or Great Lakes sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents recreational shoreline looking and working-water presence in Holland, Michigan without showing identifiable people or specific public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or vessel identification needs separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Holland Michigan 8mm pier, Lake Michigan lighthouse home movie, Great Lakes fishing boat, and vintage lakeshore travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1969 Holland, Michigan material, and then with Great Lakes piers, lighthouses, boats, or vacation shoreline scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Holland, Michigan home-movie frame showing a seagull near the shoreline and blue lake water beyond. — A seagull appears near the shore at the edge of the lake.

1969 Holland, Michigan frame of a long concrete pier extending into Lake Michigan toward a small lighthouse. — The pier leads out across the water toward a small lighthouse under a clear sky.

1969 Holland, Michigan home-movie view of the pier, small lighthouse, open lake, and distant horizon. — The camera holds on the pier and lighthouse with open lake water around them.

1969 Holland, Michigan frame showing a fishing boat offshore beyond the concrete pier edge. — A fishing boat sits offshore beyond the pier in the blue lake water.

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