Michigan-1959: A View Of A House Made Of Rocks And Wood With White Windows

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

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A View Of A House Made Of Rocks And Wood With White Windows — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from 1959 captures a distinctive house in Michigan, featuring a striking combination of red wood siding and a stone foundation. The camera pans across the structure, highlighting its unique architectural details, including white-framed windows, a prominent bay window with a grid pattern, and decorative diamond-shaped windows set into the stonework. The footage, shot on 8mm film, displays natural film grain and a nostalgic color palette, offering a glimpse into mid-century American residential design and suburban life.

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: 127713056

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Michigan 8mm home-movie exterior useful for requests about mid-century residential architecture, vernacular houses, or suburban establishing cutaways.
Period detail: The red horizontal siding, stone base, white trim, and diamond windows may show mid-century American residential taste as photographed in 1959 home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the house from outside at close range, giving an unstaged visitor or family-record perspective on a notable residential facade.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red wood siding, rough stonework, white-framed grid windows, diamond windows, grass, trees, and deep film-edge shadows.
Film character: The 8mm scan has visible grain, soft focus, saturated color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a brief exterior insert, place-setting transition, architecture cutaway, or memory beat within a 1950s Michigan sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents a distinctive residential exterior and suggests how domestic architecture and personal filming intersected in late-1950s home movies.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but the identifiable house exterior may still require property, copyright, or location review depending on use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1959 Michigan 8mm house exterior, mid-century stone and wood home, white window residential facade, and vintage home movie architecture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1959 Michigan exteriors, then broader mid-century American house and neighborhood footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Michigan 8mm frame showing a red-sided house with stone foundation, white trim, and diamond windows. — A close exterior view shows the upper windows and stone-and-wood facade of the house.

1959 Michigan home-movie frame of the house corner, with red siding above stonework and white-framed windows. — The view shifts across the corner of the red-sided house and its stone lower wall.

1959 Michigan 8mm frame focusing on the lower facade, stonework, grass, and a diamond-shaped white window. — The camera frames the lower stone wall and decorative diamond window beneath the red siding.

1959 Michigan home-movie frame showing the side of the red and stone house with grass in front. — The final view holds on the side facade, stone base, red siding, and lawn in front.

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