Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA-1964: View Of A Lake With Shore And Forest

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Pennsylvania

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View Of A Lake With Shore And Forest — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1964 showing a serene lake view with a calm water surface reflecting a purple-tinged sky. The shoreline features sandy banks and a dense forested hillside in the background. The clip exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics including grain, slight color fading, and visible edge damage. The camera remains mostly static with subtle movement, capturing the peaceful natural landscape. This authentic archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of a quiet lakeside scene from mid-century America.

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: 120925475

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: 1964 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: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1960s 8mm home-movie lake scenery that can support documentary or educational requests for quiet mid-century American waterside landscape footage.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm color film stock, purple color shift, grain, and contact-frame edges rather than identifiable buildings, people, vehicles, or dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an unstaged home-movie habit of pausing on a scenic shoreline and wooded hill from a fixed lakeside vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, a sandy or exposed shoreline, wooded hillside, pale sky, dark foreground bank, reflections, frame borders, and light edge wear.
Film character: The footage carries a soft 8mm archival texture with visible grain, mild fading toward purple-blue tones, rounded frame edges, and occasional vertical scratches or edge marks.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, establishing insert, reflective transition, or memory beat between more specific Philadelphia-area or family-travel scenes.
Historical context: The scene visually documents a mid-century leisure or travel perspective on a wooded lakeshore without showing people, infrastructure, or identifiable local landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any land-use or property context should be reviewed separately before publication.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1960s 8mm lake shore, vintage home movie wooded shoreline, calm water forest bank, and mid-century American nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1964 Philadelphia or Pennsylvania material, then broader 1960s lakeside, shore, forest, and quiet nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 archival 8mm frame showing a calm lake near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a low shoreline, wooded ridge, pale sky, and dark foreground bank. — Lake surface and distant wooded shore.

1964 archival 8mm frame of a still lakeside view in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania metadata location, with sandy shoreline, distant trees, and purple-shifted water tones. — Sandy bank across still water.

1964 archival 8mm frame showing lake water with faint reflections, a narrow shoreline, and dense trees on a low hillside. — Wooded hillside reflected in lake water.

1964 archival 8mm frame of a forested hill across calm water, with a narrow exposed shore and visible film-edge wear. — Forested hill beyond the lake.

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