Michigan-1958: Dog Walking in Autumn Backyard

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

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Dog Walking in Autumn Backyard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a dog in a rural backyard during autumn. The scene opens on a wooded area with trees displaying fall colors, then shifts to a small dog walking across a grassy yard near a wooden fence and shed. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly blurry quality, evoking a nostalgic, personal memory of a quiet day in Michigan. The dog wags its tail as it explores the yard, offering a candid glimpse into mid-century domestic life.

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: 127612392

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 home-movie requests needing a brief rural backyard dog cutaway for documentary, education, or period domestic-life sequences.
Period detail: The yard, wooden shed, simple fencing, fall leaves, and soft 8mm color may show a mid-century rural or small-town domestic setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes a small dog wandering and wagging its tail from a casual family-film distance, with no staged action visible.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include autumn trees, grass, fallen leaves, a small dog, wooden fencing, a shed wall, yard clutter, and soft shadowed edges.
Film character: The footage has 8mm grain, muted color shifts, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and a handheld home-movie feel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, seasonal transition, rural domestic cutaway, or memory beat between family-life scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers a modest view of outdoor household space and pet life in a Michigan setting without showing identifiable people or public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are indicated, but the yard and outbuildings should still be reviewed for property, copyright, and contextual use concerns.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1958 Michigan 8mm dog footage, autumn backyard home movie, rural yard pet cutaway, and vintage domestic life.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel home movies, then other Michigan 1958 material, then broader 1950s autumn, backyard, pet, and rural domestic footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Michigan 8mm frame showing autumn trees, pale grass, fencing, and dark vertical frame edges in a rural yard. — A wooded yard with fall color appears at the start of the clip.

Small dog stands in a Michigan backyard near a wooden shed, trees, fallen leaves, and shaded grass. — The dog pauses near the shed in the autumn yard.

1958 Michigan home-movie frame of a small dog crossing a leaf-strewn backyard beside a shed and simple fencing. — The dog walks across the yard with fall leaves scattered on the ground.

Soft 8mm frame showing a pale shed wall, grass, fence, and blurred yard details in the Michigan backyard. — A brief blurred view holds on the shed and surrounding grass.

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