Michigan-1969: Black Dog Playing with Red Ball in Backyard

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Michigan

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Black Dog Playing with Red Ball in Backyard — Clip Details

A fluffy black dog plays with a bright red ball in a grassy backyard, captured on 8mm film in 1969. The dog moves energetically across the lawn, its thick fur catching the sunlight as it chases and retrieves the ball. A wooden fence and bare winter trees frame the scene, with natural light casting soft shadows. The footage shows authentic Super 8 film grain and color shifts, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a family pet enjoying a playful moment in a suburban Michigan yard.

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: 127488161

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 1020 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: holland michigan
Date: 1969 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: 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s Michigan home-movie footage for productions needing a brief domestic pet or backyard play insert with authentic 8mm texture.
Period detail: The wooden fence, open lawn, leafless shrubs and bright red ball may show a modest late-1960s suburban backyard setting.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged family-pet moment, with the camera observing a fluffy black dog chasing and mouthing a ball across the grass.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a black shaggy dog, red ball, green lawn, wooden fence, bare shrubs, sunlit yard and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie character through soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure shifts, gate shadows and saturated red-green color contrast.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a pet cutaway, family-memory beat, seasonal backyard insert or gentle transition within a domestic archive sequence.
Historical context: The footage offers a small social view of household leisure and pet keeping in a Michigan backyard without showing identifiable people.
Research note: No people, faces, logos or brands are visible, but copyright, location context and any property-release needs should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Michigan 8mm dog footage, black dog red ball home movie, suburban backyard pet play and 1960s family pet clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other Michigan 1969 home movies, then broader 1960s pet or backyard family footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1969 Michigan 8mm footage, a shaggy black dog bends toward a red ball in a fenced backyard with bare shrubs. — Black dog investigates a red ball near the edge of a sunlit backyard lawn.

The dog pauses on the lawn beside the backyard fence.

A fluffy black dog turns toward the camera with its mouth open in a fenced Michigan backyard on 8mm film. — The dog turns toward the camera during play in the yard.

The shaggy black dog moves across the grass in a fenced Michigan backyard, casting a shadow in bright sunlight. — The dog walks across the lawn as sunlight throws a dark shadow behind it.

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