Michigan-1959: A Fine-looking House Made Of Expensive Stones

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

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A Fine-looking House Made Of Expensive Stones — Clip Details

MICHIGAN-1959: A vintage 8mm home movie clip captures a stately house with a distinctive stone foundation and red siding. The lower facade features two diamond-shaped windows set into a patterned wood and stone design, with a manicured lawn in the foreground. Shot on 8mm film, the footage displays warm color tones and natural film grain, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American architecture 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: 127713080

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 1950s Michigan residential architecture, suburban establishing shots, or documentary cutaways about mid-century American homes.
Period detail: The red horizontal siding, stone foundation, diamond windows, and manicured lawn may show a postwar domestic style visible in 1959 home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a family or visitor briefly filming an admired house exterior from the lawn.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red siding, rough stonework, diamond-shaped windows, patterned wood panels, a grass lawn, foundation edging, and heavy frame-edge shadows.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows warm color, soft focus, visible grain, slight handheld framing, and dark contact-sheet borders consistent with home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short exterior insert, architectural cutaway, neighborhood memory beat, or transition within a 1950s domestic sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a carefully kept house exterior and lawn, offering visual context for mid-century residential taste without identifying the property.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but the house exterior should still be reviewed for property and copyright considerations before use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1959 Michigan home movie house exterior, 8mm stone foundation residence, mid-century suburban architecture, and diamond window facade.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Michigan 1959 residential views, then broader 1950s home and neighborhood exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Michigan 8mm frame showing a house exterior with red siding, stone lower facade, diamond windows, and grass lawn. — House exterior with red siding, stonework, diamond windows, and a lawn foreground.

1959 Michigan home-movie view of a stone and red-sided house facade with two diamond windows above a lawn. — Stone and wood lower facade beneath red siding, with two diamond windows visible.

1959 Michigan exterior frame showing the lower wall of a house with stonework, red siding, diamond windows, and lawn shade. — Lower house facade with stone construction, red siding, and diamond windows over grass.

1959 Michigan 8mm frame of a red-sided house with a stone lower facade, patterned wood panels, diamond windows, and lawn. — Red-sided house with decorative stone and wood facade details above a green lawn.

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