Novi Michigan-1961: Woman Celebrates Catching a Fish in Park

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationNovi, Michigan, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Michigan

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Woman Celebrates Catching a Fish in Park — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a woman in a patterned jacket and glasses celebrating in a park. She raises her arm triumphantly, holding a fish, her face lit with joy. The scene unfolds in Novi, Michigan, with bare trees, a wooden bench, and a grassy field under an overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a handheld, candid feel, evoking mid-century Americana and personal memory.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
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: 127422651

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 2015 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: xmas,linda communion,,d danielar
Reel-level year note: 1961-1962
Reel-level location note: detroit michigan,
Date: 1961 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: Novi, 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 1960s home-movie requests needing a brief outdoor fishing celebration or personal recreation moment in a Midwestern park setting.
Period detail: The clothing, 8mm color stock, park bench, bare trees, and metadata-supported Novi, Michigan setting place the scene in an early-1960s family-film context.
Home-movie behavior: The woman appears to celebrate spontaneously for the camera, raising her arm with a fish in a candid home-movie gesture.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a woman in glasses, a patterned coat, a fish held overhead, bare trees, grass, a wooden bench, and distant parked cars.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm grain, muted color, slight underexposure, gate edges, and handheld framing that preserve its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, reaction beat, recreation cutaway, or light memory moment within a fishing or family leisure sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual outdoor recreation and family-filmed leisure, with no visible signage or landmark detail to identify the exact park.
Research note: A recognizable adult face is visible, so copyright, likeness, and any location or property considerations should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Searches this may match include 1961 Novi Michigan fishing home movie, woman catching fish, 8mm park recreation footage, and vintage family leisure clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Novi or 1961 Michigan footage, then broader fishing, park, and family recreation material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In Novi, Michigan in 1961, a woman in glasses and a patterned coat raises a fish beside bare trees and a park bench. — A woman lifts a fish while standing in a park landscape with bare trees.

The woman faces the camera in a Novi park, holding a fish aloft against leafless trees and a muted sky. — The woman turns toward the camera with the fish raised above her shoulder.

A 1961 home-movie frame shows the woman holding the fish high, partly shadowed, with a bench and bare park trees behind her. — The raised fish remains visible as the woman moves through the park frame.

The woman stands in the grass with a fish raised overhead, with bare trees, a bench, and distant cars in the Novi park scene. — The clip closes on the woman holding the fish overhead in the grassy park.

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