Michigan-1958: Human Hands Picking Blueberries In Grainy Old Film From The

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Michigan

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Human Hands Picking Blueberries In Grainy Old Film From The — Clip Details

A close-up shot from a 1958 8mm home movie shows a pair of human hands carefully picking ripe blueberries from a lush green bush. The footage, captured in natural daylight, features the characteristic grain and color saturation of vintage Super 8 film. The hands move gently through the foliage, plucking the dark blue berries, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century gardening and food harvesting in Michigan.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127612274

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: 1958 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s home-movie requests needing close-up agricultural, gardening, or food-harvest footage from Michigan for documentary or educational editing.
Period detail: The close framing, saturated color, visible grain, and 8mm source support a mid-century home-movie look, while the exact setting beyond Michigan is not visually identifiable.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged hand activity, with a person gently selecting blueberries from the bush rather than performing for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include adult hands, blueberry clusters, green leaves, stems, daylight shadows, and brief glimpses of ground behind the foliage.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, high contrast sunlight, saturated greens and blues, slight softness, and a handheld home-movie feel.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a close-up cutaway, harvest insert, seasonal transition, or quiet memory beat in a family, food, or rural-life sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents small-scale berry picking as a domestic or local outdoor activity without showing workers, machinery, signage, or a wider farm setting.
Research note: Human hands are visible, so likeness considerations may apply even without faces, logos, music, or clearly identifiable private property in these frames.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Michigan 8mm blueberries, vintage home movie berry picking, hands harvesting fruit, and mid-century gardening footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Michigan 1958 outdoor family footage, then related berry, gardening, harvest, or botany clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close-up from 1958 Michigan 8mm footage showing hands reaching through blueberry leaves to pick ripe berries. — Hands gather blueberries from a dense green bush.

A hand moves among blueberry clusters and foliage in grainy 1958 Michigan home-movie footage. — A hand reaches into the blueberry bush among ripe fruit.

Blueberry clusters fill the foreground while a picker’s hand is partly visible behind leaves in the Michigan 8mm clip. — Clusters of blueberries appear near a partially hidden picking hand.

Hands work at the edge of a blueberry bush, with berries, leaves, and sunlit ground visible in 1958 Michigan home-movie footage. — Hands continue picking berries from a sunlit bush.

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