St Paul Minnesota USA-1962: The Sun Is Setting Behind The Mountain By The Lake

$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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The Sun Is Setting Behind The Mountain By The Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1962 capturing a serene sunset over a lake in St. Paul, Minnesota. The sun dips behind a distant mountain range, casting golden light across the water and sky. Warm amber and orange tones dominate the scene, with soft clouds drifting across the horizon. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and subtle vertical scratches, enhancing its nostalgic, authentic feel. The camera remains steady, offering a peaceful, timeless view of nature at dusk.

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: 120813756

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm home-movie sunset footage suited for documentary or museum sequences needing a quiet lakeside dusk view from the American Upper Midwest.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, warm fading, and simple scenic framing, with no buildings, vehicles, clothing, or landmarks to independently confirm a specific local setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational quality of a home-movie operator pausing on an attractive sunset rather than staging action or recording an event.
What appears in frame: Across the four frames, the view includes a low sun, glowing cloud bands, reflective lake water, a dark distant shoreline or ridge, amber sky, and visible film grain and scratches.
Film character: The footage carries a soft 8mm texture with warm color shift, mild exposure bloom around the sun, slight blur, and vertical film wear that supports its archival home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm transition, reflective cutaway, end-of-day insert, or memory beat between family, travel, or regional landscape scenes.
Historical context: The scene visually documents a mid-century amateur practice of recording landscape impressions, though the frames themselves do not show identifiable social activity or built environment.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, interiors, or private property are visible, but users should still review source copyright, location metadata, and any collection-level restrictions separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1960s 8mm lake sunset, vintage home movie dusk over water, archival sunset shoreline footage, and Minnesota home-movie landscape if the supplied location metadata is being used.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1962 St. Paul or Minnesota material, and then with broader 1960s lakeside, sunset, or nature-establishing footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 8mm home-movie frame showing the sun dropping behind a dark lakeside ridge or shoreline, with amber clouds and reflected light on the water. — Sunset over water and distant shoreline.

1962 8mm home-movie frame with a bright low sun, layered clouds, reflective lake surface, and a dark tree-lined horizon in silhouette. — Bright low sun over a silhouetted horizon.

1962 8mm home-movie frame showing golden evening light over water, a shadowed shoreline or ridge, soft clouds, and visible aged-film texture. — Golden dusk light over lake water.

1962 8mm home-movie frame showing the sun partly hidden behind a dark lakeside ridge or shoreline, with warm cloud layers across the sky. — Sun slipping behind the distant shoreline.

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