Grand Rapids Michigan-1956: Scenes After A Horrible Hurricane Desolating The

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

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Scenes After A Horrible Hurricane Desolating The — Clip Details

GRAND RAPIDS MICHIGAN-1956: This 8mm home movie footage captures the aftermath of a devastating hurricane, showing a house in advanced stages of structural collapse. Exposed wooden framing, shattered walls, and debris litter the interior and exterior. A white refrigerator stands amidst the wreckage, while a blue vintage car and utility poles are visible in the background. The grainy, faded color and film scratches evoke a powerful sense of loss and nostalgia, offering authentic archival footage of mid-century disaster recovery.

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: 127402682

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 disaster aftermath sequences, especially documentary inserts about storm damage, damaged housing, and mid-century recovery scenes in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Period detail: Visible clues include exposed wood framing, a rounded white refrigerator, utility poles, and parked mid-century cars that support the 1950s home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The camera appears to record damage from a close, observational position, preserving an unstaged view of a damaged home and nearby street after a severe storm.
What appears in frame: The frames show torn wall framing, scattered lumber, a white refrigerator, sagging or missing siding, utility poles, parked cars, open ground, and film gate edges.
Film character: Faded color, soft focus, handheld framing, exposure variation, scratches, and visible frame borders give the clip a physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, aftermath insert, transition from storm impact to recovery, or memory beat within a disaster-history sequence.
Historical context: The footage visually documents residential damage and roadside surroundings in a mid-century American community without confirming the storm's exact meteorological classification from the frames alone.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but damaged residential property and event claims should still be reviewed separately from copyright status.
Research search match: Searchers may match this to 8mm 1950s Grand Rapids storm aftermath, damaged house footage, hurricane aftermath home movie, or mid-century disaster recovery scenes.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Grand Rapids 1956 material, then broader 1950s storm damage or residential disaster aftermath footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Grand Rapids 1956 home-movie frame showing damaged exterior wall framing, siding, debris, and dark film gate edges. — Damaged siding and exposed framing on a storm-struck structure.

Grand Rapids 1956 storm aftermath frame with a white refrigerator amid exposed wooden studs and damaged walls. — A white refrigerator stands inside a heavily damaged structure.

Grand Rapids 1956 frame showing a damaged building edge, diagonal supports, scattered lumber, and parked cars in the background. — Broken structure and loose boards with a street scene beyond.

Grand Rapids 1956 aftermath view with scattered boards, utility poles, parked cars, and open ground beyond the damaged structure. — Debris in the foreground with cars and utility poles in the distance.

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