Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA-1964: A Peaceful Day At The Lake

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

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A Peaceful Day At The Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1964 showing a tranquil lake surrounded by tree-covered hills. The film exhibits classic Super 8 color grading with a distinct purple tint and visible grain, scratches, and edge wear. The camera pans slowly across the water, capturing calm reflections and a peaceful natural landscape under a soft sky. This authentic archival clip evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling about mid-century American leisure.

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: 120925498

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 editorial requests for quiet mid-century American leisure, nature, and reflective outdoor travel material.
Period detail: The clip shows few date-specific visual clues beyond the 8mm home-movie format and color stock character, so the 1964 Philadelphia-area identification should be treated as metadata-supported rather than visually confirmed.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged value of a home-movie pan across open water and wooded shoreline, preserving a visitor's quiet attention to landscape rather than a staged activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, wooded hills, a low shoreline, distant sky, water reflections, dark frame edges, and a small bright object near the right edge in the final frame.
Film character: The scan carries visible 8mm grain, purple color shift, soft focus, exposure variation, scratches, and gate-edge wear that provide useful archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a tranquil establishing insert, memory transition, nature cutaway, or pause between more active home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The scene reflects a mid-century leisure-camera view of a wooded lake environment, with no people, buildings, vehicles, or identifiable public landmarks visible in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright clearance and location verification remain separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches might include 1960s 8mm lake footage, home movie wooded shoreline, vintage Pennsylvania lake scenery, calm water pan, and purple-tinted archival landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other footage from the same reel, then with 1964 Philadelphia or Pennsylvania outdoor material, and then with broader 1960s lake, vacation, and quiet nature scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 metadata-supported 8mm frame of a calm lake near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a tree-covered hill, distant shore, soft sky, and visible film-edge wear. — Lake and wooded hillside across still water.

1964 metadata-supported 8mm frame showing a quiet lake corridor near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, framed by wooded banks and a distant shoreline beneath a soft sky. — Wooded shorelines frame the lake view.

1964 metadata-supported 8mm frame of calm water near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with a shaded wooded shoreline to the right and low hills in the distance. — A shaded wooded shoreline beside calm water.

1964 metadata-supported 8mm frame near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, showing a tree-lined lakeshore, reflective water, hillside vegetation, and a small bright object at the far right edge. — Tree-lined lakeshore reflected in still water.

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