Michigan-1959: Newly Built Fountain At The Park

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

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Newly Built Fountain At The Park — Clip Details

MICHIGAN-1959: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a newly built fountain in a park, viewed through a darkened window frame. The scene features a green-topped fountain structure surrounded by rocks and bare winter trees, with a blue-tinted sky visible beyond the fence. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight camera shake, and a nostalgic, low-light aesthetic typical of 1950s home recordings. The composition suggests a quiet, observational moment of a local landmark.

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: 127713337

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 requests needing late-1950s Michigan home-movie footage of a park feature or local landmark as an observational documentary cutaway.
Period detail: The dark window framing, bare trees, metal fence and green-topped fountain may show a newly built park feature recorded in 1959.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on the fountain from behind a darkened foreground frame rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a green-topped fountain structure, rockwork, bare winter trees, a fence, blue sky, deep shadows and a dark window-like frame.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows coarse grain, blue-shifted daylight, low exposure in the foreground and slight handheld movement that give it home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short insert, place-establishing cutaway, seasonal transition or quiet memory beat around parks and local landmarks.
Historical context: The footage documents a modest public outdoor feature in Michigan without showing crowds, ceremonies or signage that would identify the site.
Research note: No people, logos or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identity and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1959 Michigan 8mm park fountain footage, vintage home movie landmark cutaway and winter park feature behind a window frame.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Michigan 1959 park footage, then broader vintage fountain, landmark or winter public-space scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 Michigan 8mm frame showing a shadowed park fountain area with rockwork, bare trees, fence lines and blue sky beyond. — A dark foreground frames the fountain and surrounding rocks beneath bare trees.

1959 Michigan home-movie frame of the park fountain from a low-light viewpoint, with rocks, fence rails and leafless trees visible. — The fountain remains mostly in shadow while the fence and winter trees catch the blue daylight.

1959 Michigan frame showing the green-topped park fountain more clearly, with rockwork below and leafless trees behind a fence. — A brighter angle reveals more of the fountain form and the rockwork at its base.

1959 Michigan 8mm frame of a park fountain and surrounding rocks, seen against leafless trees, fence rails and blue daylight. — The fountain and rockwork sit in heavy shadow against a brighter wooded park background.

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