St Paul Minnesota USA-1962: My Day At The River

$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.

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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My Day At The River — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from St. Paul, Minnesota, 1962, capturing a serene river scene at dusk. The clip features a dark, dense forest lining the riverbank, with a calm water surface reflecting a deep blue and purple hue under low light. The camera pans slowly across the water, revealing subtle ripples and a faint reflection of the surrounding trees. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, with a nostalgic, dreamlike quality. This authentic archival footage offers a quiet moment of nature and leisure, ideal for historical or nostalgic projects.

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: 120813697

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1962 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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 1960s archival requests needing a quiet Midwestern river or wooded-water cutaway for documentary, museum, education, or memory-based edits.
Period detail: The frames show few date-specific clues beyond the 8mm home-movie color, grain, and handheld framing associated with the supplied 1962 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie perspective, with the camera lingering on water and trees rather than people or arranged activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark forested riverbank, blue-purple water, soft shoreline reflections, low-light exposure, rippled surface texture, and a brief pale blur near the lower edge in later frames.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, soft focus, low-light underexposure, color shift toward blue and purple, and gentle handheld drift that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief nature insert, dusk transition, river cutaway, or quiet memory beat between more active home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The view documents a leisure-era home-movie attention to local natural scenery, showing a calm river edge without visible people, buildings, signage, or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or clear private property are visible in the sampled frames, but copyright, location identification, and any downstream use should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1962 8mm river footage, St. Paul Minnesota home movie water scene, 1960s wooded riverbank, dusk river cutaway, and vintage amateur nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then with other St. Paul or Minnesota 1962 material, and then with broader 1960s home-movie nature, river, fishing, or leisure footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm home-movie frame from the supplied St. Paul, Minnesota clip showing a dark tree-lined riverbank and blue-purple water under low light. — Wooded riverbank and dusky water.

A low-light 8mm frame shows a wooded shoreline and dark reflective water, consistent with the supplied 1962 St. Paul river footage. — Shoreline reflection on the river.

The camera frames a shaded forest edge and rippled blue-purple river water in this 1962 8mm home-movie scene from the supplied St. Paul metadata. — Riverside trees and rippled water.

A later frame from the supplied 1962 St. Paul river clip shows the wooded bank, rippled blue-purple water, and a small pale blur near the lower edge. — Dark riverbank over blue water.

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