Michigan-1958: Rural Yard with Trees in Autumn Colors

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

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Rural Yard with Trees in Autumn Colors — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a quiet rural scene in Michigan during autumn. The footage, viewed through a dark frame, shows a grassy yard with scattered trees displaying fall colors—greens, yellows, and oranges. A wooden fence and a small shed are visible in the background, with a house partially seen behind the trees. The image is grainy and slightly out of focus, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The camera remains mostly static, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a peaceful countryside moment.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127612388

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: 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 Michigan rural-life requests needing a quiet autumn yard, tree, or countryside cutaway from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The scene may show mid-century rural property details, including a wooden fence, small outbuilding, grassy yard, and mature trees in fall color.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the still, observational home-movie viewpoint, as if filmed from a shaded porch or window toward a quiet yard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include fall trees, grass, a wooden fence, a small shed or outbuilding, a partially obscured house, dark foreground framing, and soft distant light.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate shadowing, and muted autumn color that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural autumn insert, seasonal transition, establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat between family or countryside scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents an ordinary quiet outdoor setting rather than a public event, with attention on seasonal landscape and domestic rural surroundings.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and property-context review should remain separate from likeness clearance.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1958 Michigan 8mm autumn trees, vintage rural yard home movie, fall foliage fence cutaway, and mid-century countryside footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 Michigan rural exteriors, then broader autumn trees, yards, fences, and home-movie landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Michigan 8mm frame showing a grassy rural yard, fall trees, and a partially hidden structure beyond dark foreground framing. — A shaded view looks across grass toward autumn trees and a faint building in the background.
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1958 Michigan 8mm frame with fall-colored trees, a wooden fence, grass, and a small outbuilding or shed in the background. — Autumn foliage surrounds a fenced rural yard with a small structure partly visible beyond the trees.
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1958 Michigan 8mm frame showing tree trunks, orange-green fall foliage, grass, and a wooden fence in a quiet rural setting. — A static home-movie view frames tree trunks, grass, and fence rails under autumn foliage.
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1958 Michigan 8mm frame looking through branches toward a fence, fall trees, tall grass, and a dark shed-like form at right. — Branches and fall trees frame a fence line and dark outbuilding shape in the rural yard.
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