Michigan-1959: Her New House A Block Away From Mine

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

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Her New House A Block Away From Mine — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban neighborhood in Michigan. The footage shows a residential street with well-kept lawns, white picket fences, and modest houses, including a house with a garage and a wooden fence. A red fire hydrant stands near the road, and a classic car is parked in a driveway. The camera moves slowly, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American life, with natural sunlight and the characteristic grain of Super 8 film.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127712084

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 documentary or educational requests needing 1959 Michigan suburban street atmosphere and modest mid-century residential exteriors.
Period detail: Visible period clues include simple fenced lawns, detached houses, a driveway garage, a red hydrant, and a dark parked car that may reflect late-1950s neighborhood design.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, panning from near a yard or porch toward a neighboring house across a quiet street.
What appears in frame: Frames show lawns, curbside pavement, white rail fencing, modest houses, a garage door, a red fire hydrant, bare trees, and a parked car.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, mild gate shadows, uneven exposure, and handheld movement that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short establishing insert, neighborhood transition, memory beat, or cutaway for mid-century domestic life.
Historical context: The footage visually situates suburban Michigan housing and street frontage without showing people, commerce, or a named landmark.
Research note: No people or brands are visible, but residential exteriors may still require property and location review separate from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1959 Michigan home movie, 1950s suburban street, 8mm neighborhood footage, modest houses, lawns, fences, and garage exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Michigan 1959 residential material, then with broader 1950s suburb and home exterior themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Michigan home-movie frame showing a quiet suburban street, lawn, fenced yard, houses, and a dark car in a driveway. — A lawn and curb frame a quiet residential street with modest houses and a parked car beyond.

1959 Michigan residential exterior with a red fire hydrant, white fence rails, lawn, trees, and a house across the road. — A red fire hydrant stands near a fenced residential yard and house exterior across the street.

Home-movie pan in a 1959 Michigan neighborhood, showing fence posts, lawn, street edge, trees, and part of a house exterior. — The moving camera passes a fenced lawn and house frontage beside a quiet street.

1959 Michigan suburban frame showing a garage, driveway, white fence sections, lawn, trees, and the road in front. — A driveway and garage appear behind white fence sections along the residential street.

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