Grand Rapids Michigan-1956: Man Wearing Red Hat Waves From Blue Car On A Sunny Day

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Year1956
Decade1950s
LocationGrand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1956 Grand Rapids Michigan

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Man Wearing Red Hat Waves From Blue Car On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1956, this vintage home movie captures a man in a red hat waving from a classic blue and white station wagon during a sunny day in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The clip opens on a hazy, overcast landscape with a distant white building and power lines, then pans to reveal the car. The driver, wearing a red cap and glasses, smiles and waves at the camera as the vehicle moves through the quiet suburban scene. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight motion blur, evoking authentic mid-century Americana.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127402584

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: Yes
Minors 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 American home-movie requests needing a suburban car-pass insert with a visible adult waving from a mid-century station wagon.
Period detail: The two-tone station wagon, red cap, eyeglasses, open car window, sparse roadside, and utility poles may show mid-1950s suburban travel details.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual exchange with the camera as the driver smiles and waves from the moving car, giving the scene an unstaged family-film quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a hazy open landscape, power lines, a pale roadside structure, a blue and white station wagon, an adult driver in a red hat, and bright daylight.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight blur, exposure haze, and handheld framing that support its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, family-travel cutaway, suburban transition, or mid-century automobile insert.
Historical context: The footage reflects everyday postwar-era personal filming around a car and roadside setting, without enough visual evidence to identify a specific event or landmark.
Research note: An adult face is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos are apparent, and copyright status should be assessed separately from privacy or publicity rights.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1956 Grand Rapids home movie, 1950s station wagon footage, man waving from car, and vintage 8mm suburban automobile scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1956 Grand Rapids material, and then with broader 1950s family travel or automobile footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Grand Rapids home-movie frame showing a hazy roadside landscape with utility poles and open ground before the car enters view. — A soft, hazy roadside view opens the clip before the moving car appears.

1956 Grand Rapids frame with a pale roadside structure, utility poles, and washed daylight in the background. — Utility poles and a low pale structure sit in the bright roadside background.

1956 Grand Rapids home-movie frame showing a blue and white station wagon with an adult driver in a red hat and another adult passenger visible. — The blue and white station wagon moves into frame with adults visible inside.

1956 Grand Rapids frame showing an adult man in a red hat and glasses waving from the driver window of a blue and white station wagon. — The driver smiles and waves from the station wagon window as the car passes.

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