Michigan-1959: Clean Water Dam in Michigan

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 in Michigan

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Clean Water Dam in Michigan — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a serene river scene in Michigan. A long dam stretches across the water, creating white rapids as the current flows over it. Lush green trees line the far bank, with a large building visible in the distance. The footage is framed by dark silhouettes of foliage and a stone structure on the right, giving a sense of viewing from a shaded vantage point. The image shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and subtle scratches, characteristic of mid-century home movies. This archival clip evokes a quiet, nostalgic moment of American nature and infrastructure.

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: 127711697

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 2228 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: howard black,
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: flint michigan
Date: 1959 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: Supports 1950s Michigan river, dam, waterway, and civic-infrastructure requests for documentary inserts, educational programs, or regional history edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft focus, and distant low-rise structure may show a mid-century visitor view of a Michigan river dam in 1959.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a shaded bank or overlook, giving the scene the informal perspective of a home-movie traveler pausing at moving water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad river, long low dam, white spillover, far-bank trees, a distant building, dark foliage, and a stone or structural edge.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm grain, mild color fading, uneven exposure, soft detail, and small scratches that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet cutaway, regional establishing insert, water-infrastructure transition, or reflective memory beat.
Historical context: The footage places a dam and river landscape within a leisure-observation view, emphasizing everyday encounters with nature and public works.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1959 Michigan 8mm river dam, vintage home movie waterway, mid-century dam rapids, and archival river infrastructure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Michigan travel material, then with 1959 regional footage, then with broader river, dam, nature, and infrastructure scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Michigan 8mm view of a river spilling over a long low dam, framed by shadowed foliage and a structural edge. — A shaded vantage point looks across the river toward a low dam and tree-lined far bank.

Michigan river scene from 1959 showing white water over a low dam, with trees and a distant building beyond the bank. — White water runs along the dam as the far bank remains partly obscured by trees.

A wider 1959 Michigan home-movie frame shows the dam stretching across the river with rapids and a distant structure on the far shore. — The camera holds on a wider stretch of the dam and rippled water below it.

Late-frame 8mm view of the Michigan river dam, with dark foreground shade, churning water, trees, and distant shoreline forms. — Dark foreground framing contrasts with the bright spillover across the dam.

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