St Paul Minnesota USA-1962: Cold Winter Day With Snow Piles And A House

$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.

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

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Cold Winter Day With Snow Piles And A House — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from St. Paul, Minnesota, 1962, capturing a cold winter day with heavy snow blanketing a mid-century modern house. The scene shows a single-story brick home with snow-covered roof and large piles of snow in the yard, bare trees in the foreground, and a dark, shadowy figure visible through a window. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color distortion with purple and blue tinting, and slight camera shake, evoking authentic 1960s home movie nostalgia. The bright, snowy landscape contrasts with the dark interior, creating a quiet, atmospheric winter moment.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120814751

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: This 1962 8mm home-movie clip can serve archival requests for a 1960s Upper Midwest winter residential exterior, especially for documentary or education uses needing a brief snowy neighborhood cutaway.
Period detail: The single-story brick house, low roofline, large front window, and heavy snow accumulation may show mid-century residential design and winter upkeep in St. Paul, Minnesota, as supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged family-film viewpoint, with the camera lingering from outside on a snowbound house rather than presenting a formal architectural record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a snow-covered brick house, deep snow piles, a large dark front window, bare trees, roof snow, icicles or eaves, and a partially cleared walkway or driveway edge.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, handheld instability, visible grain, and blue-purple color shift that preserve the texture of aged home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter establishing insert, a quiet transition between domestic scenes, or a memory beat for cold-weather residential life.
Historical context: The scene gives visual context for ordinary winter conditions around a private-looking residential property, without showing identifiable people, vehicles, signage, or public landmarks.
Research note: No faces, logos, or audible music are evident, but the residential exterior should still be reviewed for property, copyright, and location-identification considerations.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches might include 1962 8mm St. Paul winter house, 1960s Minnesota snow piles, mid-century home exterior in winter, and vintage home movie snowy neighborhood.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other St. Paul or 1962 winter footage, and finally with broader 1960s home-movie scenes of snow, houses, and neighborhood exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1962 St. Paul home-movie frame showing a snowbound single-story brick house, bare trees, roof snow, and a large shaded front window. — Snow piles outside a brick house.

1962 St. Paul winter frame with a low brick house partly obscured by snowbanks, bare trees, and a shaded window. — Snowbanks obscure the front of the house.

1962 St. Paul home-movie frame of a low brick residential house with heavy roof snow, bare trees, and deep snow piled near the front window. — Low winter sun on a snowbound house.

1962 St. Paul winter frame showing a brick home with roof snow, a dark front window, piled snow, and a partially cleared walkway or driveway edge. — Snow piled high beside the house.

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