Grand Rapids Michigan-1956: View Of Severely Damaged Home On A Bright Sunny Day

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationGrand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 Grand Rapids Michigan

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View Of Severely Damaged Home On A Bright Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1956, this archival footage captures a severely damaged white clapboard house in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The home shows extensive structural damage with broken windows, shattered siding, and a partially collapsed roof. The footage, presented in a vintage home movie style with film grain and slight motion blur, documents the aftermath of a destructive event on a bright, sunny day. The camera pans across the wreckage, revealing the extent of the destruction to the exterior. This raw, unfiltered 1950s home movie offers a poignant glimpse into mid-century American life and disaster recovery, ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127402318

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: Grand Rapids, 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 disaster aftermath, damaged housing, or mid-century residential exterior material for documentary and editorial use.
Period detail: The white clapboard siding, simple entry door, and 8mm home-movie look may show a mid-century residential neighborhood consistent with the 1956 Grand Rapids metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The brief handheld view records damage from a close residential vantage point, giving the clip the direct, unstaged feel of a home-movie witness record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a damaged white clapboard house, broken windows, torn siding, a battered door, roof damage, scattered debris, utility poles, and bright daylight.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, pale exposure, gate edges, dust specks, and slight handheld instability that preserve the physical-film texture of the source.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, cutaway, or transition beat for storm damage, residential destruction, recovery, or local-history sequences.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a damaged residential exterior in Grand Rapids, without enough visible evidence to identify the cause of the destruction.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are visible or flagged, but the damaged residence may still require property and copyright review depending on use.
Research search match: Research matches include 1956 Grand Rapids home damage, 1950s Michigan disaster aftermath, damaged clapboard house, and 8mm residential wreckage footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1956 Grand Rapids material, then with related damaged-home or disaster-aftermath footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Grand Rapids home-movie frame showing a damaged white clapboard house with broken upper windows, torn siding, and roof damage. — A damaged white clapboard house is seen from close range, with broken windows and siding torn from the exterior.

1956 Grand Rapids frame showing the damaged facade of a white clapboard house, including broken windows, torn siding, and a door with a round window. — The camera view centers on the house front, where broken windows and damaged siding surround the entry area.

1956 Grand Rapids home-movie frame showing the front corner of a damaged white house with a door, window, and torn material near the entrance. — The house corner and entry remain in view, with exterior damage visible around the door and nearby window.

1956 Grand Rapids frame showing the side of a damaged white house, with missing siding, exposed structure, debris, and bright overexposed sky. — The final view shows more of the damaged side wall, where siding is missing and debris is visible near the structure.

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