Michigan-1959: Stone Pond in Backyard with House

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

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Stone Pond in Backyard with House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched backyard in Michigan. The camera pans across a lush green lawn bordered by bare trees, revealing a prominent man-made stone pond structure with a ceramic spout. In the background, a large blue house with white trim stands behind a chain-link fence. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color tones, and natural shadows, evoking a nostalgic mid-century American suburban lifestyle.

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: 127713279

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: Useful for requests needing 1950s Michigan home-movie footage of a suburban backyard, garden feature, or quiet domestic exterior cutaway.
Period detail: The blue house, chain-link fencing, open lawn, and stone pond feature may show mid-century suburban yard design in a Michigan setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-film perspective, lingering on the yard and homemade pond structure rather than a posed event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green lawn, bare trees, a stone pond structure with ceramic spout, chain-link fence, log pieces, and a blue house with white trim.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, handheld framing, warm color, visible grain, and contact-sheet edge density that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an exterior insert, domestic memory beat, seasonal transition, or establishing cutaway for suburban home life.
Historical context: The footage documents a residential outdoor space with lawn, trees, fencing, and decorative yard work, offering visual context for everyday domestic environments.
Research note: No people, logos, or music are evident, but the visible residence and yard feature may still require property and copyright review depending on use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Michigan 8mm backyard footage, vintage suburban lawn, homemade stone pond, blue house exterior, and home-movie garden cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Michigan 1959 exteriors, then broader 1950s suburban yard and home-garden footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Michigan 8mm frame showing a green backyard lawn, bare trees, and distant fencing under bright sun. — The opening frame looks across a sunlit lawn bordered by bare trees.

1959 Michigan backyard view with a stone pond feature, ceramic spout, chain-link fence, logs, and blue house beyond. — A stone pond structure and ceramic spout sit in the yard near fencing and a blue house.

1959 Michigan home-movie frame centered on a stone pond structure with a blue house, fence, logs, and trees in view. — The camera settles on the decorative pond feature in front of the house and fence.

1959 Michigan 8mm frame showing the backyard pond structure, nearby logs, bare trees, chain-link fence, and blue house. — The final frame holds on the pond feature and surrounding residential yard.

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