Grand Rapids Michigan-1956: On A Vast Land There Are Logs And Lumbers Lumbers

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

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On A Vast Land There Are Logs And Lumbers Lumbers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1956, this vintage home movie captures a desolate, post-construction landscape in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Piles of lumber and debris litter the ground, with bare trees standing amidst the wreckage. A few workers move through the scene, surveying the site under a pale, overcast sky. The footage shows the aftermath of industrial activity, with a mix of natural and man-made destruction. The grainy, slightly faded quality of the Super 8 film adds to the nostalgic, archival feel of this historical moment.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127402660

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 U.S. industrial, construction, or land-clearing archive requests needing brief 8mm home-movie cutaways from Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-1950s worksite conditions through bare trees, scattered lumber, open ground, distant vehicles, and small figures moving across a cleared landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a casual, distant home-movie position rather than staging the workers or arranging the debris field.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include lumber piles, stripped branches, bare trees, open muddy ground, distant vehicles, small workers, pale sky, and a low industrial-looking site edge.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, faded color, high exposure, slight blur, and contact-print framing that give it clear physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, environmental cutaway, transition, or memory beat for land development, construction aftermath, or industrial change.
Historical context: The footage visually suggests a cleared or disrupted work area, but the frames do not identify the project, company, property owner, or exact cause of the debris.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may be needed; copyright, location, and any property questions should be evaluated separately before use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1956 Grand Rapids 8mm lumber piles, 1950s Michigan construction debris, vintage land clearing footage, and home movie industrial landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with 1956 Grand Rapids material, then with broader 1950s construction, lumber, or land-clearing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1956 Grand Rapids 8mm frame showing stacked branches or lumber across a cleared site with distant vehicles and buildings. — Cut branches and lumber fill the foreground of a cleared Grand Rapids worksite.

1956 Grand Rapids frame with a leafless tree, scattered wood debris, and a small distant person on open land. — A bare tree and scattered wood debris mark the cleared landscape.

1956 Grand Rapids 8mm frame showing distant workers, parked vehicles, bare trees, and lumber scattered across a cleared site. — Distant workers move near vehicles across the open debris field.

1956 Grand Rapids frame with several distant people near stacked lumber, debris, bare trees, and open ground. — Several figures gather around a lumber pile in the cleared work area.

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