Michigan-1959: Apartment Building With Stone Facade And Classic Car Parked Beside It

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

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Apartment Building With Stone Facade And Classic Car... — Clip Details

MICHIGAN-1959: A vintage 8mm home movie clip captures a rustic stone and wood-sided apartment building with distinctive diamond-shaped windows. The camera pans across the facade, revealing white-framed windows and a red-brown horizontal siding. In the final frame, a classic 1950s car is parked beside a weathered wooden fence along a quiet road, with bare trees suggesting early spring. The footage exhibits natural film grain and color saturation typical of 1950s home movies, offering authentic archival material for historical or nostalgic projects.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127712239

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s Michigan residential exteriors, small apartment architecture, roadside cutaways, and documentary sequences needing authentic 8mm neighborhood atmosphere.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1950s residential design cues, including stone facing, wood siding, multi-pane windows, diamond basement windows, and a parked 1950s-era car.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld camera studies the building from outside, suggesting a casual home-movie record of a place rather than a staged architectural view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include stone facade, red-brown siding, white window frames, diamond-shaped basement windows, bare trees, a wooden fence, roadside grass, and a parked dark car.
Film character: The footage has 8mm color grain, soft focus, handheld framing, deep shadows, and saturated daylight color that read as authentic scanned home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, residential cutaway, transition between family scenes, or quiet memory beat for a mid-century neighborhood setting.
Historical context: The exterior offers visual context for mid-century residential life in Michigan without confirming the building's exact address, occupants, or architectural history.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are visible or flagged, but property, copyright, and location-identification questions should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1959 Michigan 8mm apartment exterior, 1950s residential building home movie, classic car by house, and mid-century neighborhood footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Michigan 1959 exteriors, then broader 1950s home-movie neighborhood and classic-car material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Michigan 8mm frame showing a residential building facade with stonework, red-brown siding, white-framed windows, and diamond basement windows. — Building facade with stone base, red-brown siding, and distinctive diamond-shaped windows.

1959 Michigan exterior frame with white multi-pane windows above red-brown siding, stone wall sections, and angled wood panels below. — Closer view of the building's window band, siding, stonework, and angled lower panels.

1959 Michigan 8mm frame showing the building corner with stonework, red-brown siding, a diamond window, bare trees, and grassy ground. — The pan reaches the building corner, with trees and lawn visible beyond the facade.

1959 Michigan frame showing a dark classic car parked by a weathered wooden fence, with grass, road edge, and bare trees nearby. — A dark classic car sits beside a wooden fence along the quiet roadside.

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