Michigan-1959: Stone Fountain in Backyard

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

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Stone Fountain in Backyard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched backyard in Michigan, featuring a hand-built stone fountain with a green basin and a tiered water feature. The scene includes a neatly mown lawn, young trees, and a house in the background, viewed through a natural frame. The footage shows subtle camera movement, with a warm, slightly faded color palette characteristic of mid-century home movies. The final frame shifts to a dark, shadowed view, possibly from a porch or window, with a glimpse of the yard beyond. This authentic 1950s domestic scene evokes nostalgia and is ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or editorial content about mid-century American life.

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: 127712142

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 requests needing 1950s Michigan home-movie footage of a quiet suburban backyard, lawn, and garden feature for documentary or editorial domestic-life context.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century residential landscaping, with a mown lawn, young trees, low stonework, and a small tiered fountain visible near a house.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the yard from a domestic vantage point without staging, preserving a brief everyday view of home landscaping and outdoor space.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grass lawn, stone fountain, green basin, low stone border, trees, garden beds, a house facade, and a shadowed porch or window frame.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure shifts, and handheld framing typical of color home movies from the late 1950s.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, establishing insert, memory beat, or transition into material about mid-century home life or family property.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for postwar residential yard design and amateur family filming, without identifying the household or neighborhood.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or flagged, but copyright, property context, and location identification should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Searches such as 1959 Michigan backyard 8mm, 1950s home movie garden fountain, vintage suburban lawn footage, or mid-century residential yard may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Michigan home movies, then broader backyard, garden, lawn, and domestic exterior footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Michigan home-movie frame showing a sunny backyard with grass, stone fountain, young trees, and a house beyond. — Sunlit backyard with stone fountain and lawn near a house.

1959 Michigan backyard view with a tiered stone fountain, green lawn, trees, and house exterior in soft 8mm color. — Backyard fountain and lawn framed by trees and a house exterior.

Shadowed 1959 home-movie view from a porch or window toward a Michigan yard with lawn, tree, fence, and masonry. — Dark foreground framing a view out to the yard and fence.

1959 Michigan home-movie frame looking from a shaded foreground toward a yard, fence, tree, masonry, and house exterior. — Shaded view across low masonry toward the yard and house exterior.

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