Michigan-1959: Scanning of Red and White House and Grass-Covered Backyard

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

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Scanning of Red and White House and Grass-Covered Backyard — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched backyard in Michigan. The camera pans across a stone retaining wall lined with fallen leaves, a lush green lawn, and a red and white house in the background. Trees and shrubs frame the scene, with natural light casting soft shadows. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, nostalgic content, or period-accurate visuals.

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: 127712227

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: 1950s Michigan home-movie footage suited for establishing suburban yards, spring landscaping, or domestic exteriors in documentary and education edits.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-century residential landscaping, with a low stone retaining wall, broad lawn, mature trees, and a red-and-white house exterior.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the casual handheld scan of a yard and house, suggesting a family filmmaker recording ordinary surroundings rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a stone retaining wall, fallen leaves, green grass, large rocks, trees, shrubs, and part of a red-and-white house.
Film character: The 8mm image has saturated color, soft focus, gate shadows, slight jitter, and contact-sheet framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, transition, memory beat, or exterior context shot for domestic life in the late 1950s.
Historical context: The scene offers visual context for a maintained residential yard in Michigan, without people, vehicles, signage, or identifiable public landmarks visible.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, property, and location-specific permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1959 Michigan 8mm backyard, vintage home movie house exterior, stone wall lawn footage, and 1950s residential yard.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Michigan exteriors, and then broader home-movie clips of lawns, houses, and gardens.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Michigan home-movie frame showing a stone retaining wall, green lawn, rocks, trees, and leaf litter in a backyard setting. — A backyard stone wall borders grass and trees in bright daylight.

Handheld 8mm view of a Michigan yard with a stone retaining wall, leaf-covered ground, grass, and trees. — The camera continues along the retaining wall and shaded yard edge.

1959 backyard frame with grass, pale landscape rocks, trees, and a low stone wall captured on 8mm film. — Grass and landscape rocks sit above the backyard retaining wall.

8mm frame of a red-and-white Michigan house exterior with a stone base, siding, and diamond-shaped windows. — A red-and-white house exterior appears at the end of the yard scan.

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