Traverse City Michigan-1956: Calm Blue Waves With Tree-Lined Shore

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationTraverse City, Michigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 Traverse City Michigan

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Calm Blue Waves With Tree-Lined Shore — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1956, this vintage home movie captures calm blue waves rippling across a lake or coastal waterway in Traverse City, Michigan. The footage shows a serene natural landscape with a tree-lined shore in the distance under a pale sky. The color palette shifts between deep blue and purplish tones, with visible film grain and slight color fading typical of mid-century home movies. The camera appears to be handheld from a moving boat, creating a gentle, immersive perspective of the water's surface. This archival footage evokes a sense of quiet nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 125865966

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 1210 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: bill's first birthday,blueberry field
Reel-level year note: 1956-1957-1958
Reel-level location note: michigan
Date: 1956 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: Traverse 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s archival requests needing a quiet Great Lakes water cutaway, shoreline establishing shot, or home-movie travel insert.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft exposure, and handheld framing support a mid-1950s home-movie feel, with no visible signs, vessels, or landmarks to further date the scene.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears to watch the lake from a moving boat, preserving an unstaged vacation or travel perspective focused on water and distant shore.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippling blue water, a wooded shoreline, low hills, pale sky, film-frame edges, and occasional dark gate borders.
Film character: The clip has visible 8mm grain, slight color fading, blue-purple shifts, soft focus, and mild handheld motion that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a calm transition, nature cutaway, travel-memory beat, or establishing insert before or after Traverse City material.
Historical context: The footage reflects leisure-era home filming of a northern Michigan lake scene, but the frames do not identify a specific shoreline or activity beyond boating perspective.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible, though copyright clearance and location identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Search matches include 1950s 8mm lake waves, Traverse City home movie shoreline, vintage Michigan water footage, and tree-lined lake from boat.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1956 Traverse City or Michigan lake footage, then broader vintage boating and shoreline scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 8mm home-movie view of blue water near Traverse City, with a wooded shoreline and pale sky beyond. — Blue waves ripple toward a distant wooded shoreline under a pale sky.

Open Traverse City-area water in 1956 home-movie footage, with ripples, low wooded land, and soft film color. — Open water fills the foreground with low wooded hills across the horizon.

Handheld 8mm frame of dark blue lake water and a soft distant shoreline, consistent with 1956 Traverse City footage. — Dark blue water and a soft wooded horizon suggest a view from a moving boat.

Faded-color 1956 8mm view of Traverse City-area water, with purplish tones and a low tree-lined shore. — Color-shifted water ripples across the frame with a low wooded shore beyond.

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