Michigan-1959: Stone Fireplace in Wooded Backyard

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationMichigan, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1959 in Michigan

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Stone Fireplace in Wooded Backyard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a rustic stone fireplace in a wooded backyard. The scene features a grassy lawn, leafy trees, and a wire fence in the background, with natural sunlight filtering through the branches. The footage has a warm, nostalgic color palette with visible film grain and slight motion blur, characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era. The camera remains mostly static, offering a quiet, domestic moment from a Michigan family's summer day.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127711914

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: Useful for 1950s Michigan home-movie requests needing a quiet domestic backyard cutaway with rustic landscaping and no visible people.
Period detail: The stone outdoor fireplace, metal fencing, lawn, and garden furniture may show mid-century domestic yard design in a wooded Michigan setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes an unstaged backyard feature from a family-film perspective, treating the outdoor fireplace and garden as part of everyday home life.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a stone fireplace, grassy lawn, leafy trees, wire fence, garden edging, outdoor chair or table, and sunlit yard.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, mild gate framing, visible grain, saturated color, and slight exposure shifts that support its home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm exterior insert, backyard establishing shot, seasonal transition, or memory beat within a family or domestic-life sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for leisure-oriented yard space and rustic outdoor features in a wooded residential Michigan environment.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Michigan 8mm backyard footage, vintage stone outdoor fireplace, mid-century home movie garden, and wooded lawn cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Michigan 1959 exteriors, then related 1950s backyard, garden, and domestic leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Michigan 8mm frame showing a rustic stone outdoor fireplace beside a grassy, tree-lined backyard with fencing behind it. — A stone outdoor fireplace stands in a sunlit wooded backyard.

1959 Michigan backyard view with a stone fireplace, green lawn, trees, and wire fencing in soft 8mm color. — The camera holds on the fireplace and surrounding lawn.

1959 Michigan home-movie frame of a stone backyard fireplace seen through nearby trees, with lawn and fencing beyond. — Tree trunks frame the yard and stone fireplace.

Wider 1959 Michigan 8mm view of the stone outdoor fireplace set into a grassy backyard with trees and fencing behind it. — A wider view shows the fireplace within the wooded backyard setting.

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