Dayton Ohio USA-1958: Beautiful Forest Big Trees

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationDayton, Ohio, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Beautiful Forest Big Trees — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Dayton Ohio USA in 1958, capturing a dense forest through a window frame. The clip shows tall trees with green foliage and slender trunks, viewed from a moving perspective suggesting travel by car or train. The image is grainy with natural film artifacts, exhibiting a soft focus and muted color palette typical of 1950s amateur film. The dark borders indicate a projected or scanned home movie, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic footage is ideal for documentaries, period pieces, or nostalgic content.

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: 120977394

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: 1958 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: Dayton, Ohio, 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: 1950s 8mm forest-view footage for documentary cutaways, travel transitions, memory sequences, or nature inserts needing a quiet Midwestern home-movie perspective.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1950s amateur color 8mm filming, with wooded scenery seen through dark frame edges and soft exposure rather than identifiable landmarks or period objects.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value is the passing, observational view from behind a window or frame, suggesting a traveler briefly recording trees and undergrowth rather than a composed scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall tree trunks, dense green foliage, shrubs, branches, pale sky, dark vertical frame edges, and soft wooded undergrowth.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, muted color, soft focus, uneven exposure, and dark scan or projection borders that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief nature cutaway, transitional travel insert, atmospheric memory beat, or visual bridge between family, road, or outdoor scenes.
Historical context: The frames provide a modest view of wooded landscape around Dayton, Ohio in the home-movie record, without visible people, buildings, signage, or dated public events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright and location verification should still be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 Dayton Ohio forest 8mm, 1950s home movie trees, vintage wooded landscape through window, and amateur travel nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1958 Dayton material, then broader 1950s Ohio nature, travel, or wooded landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Dayton, Ohio 8mm frame showing dense trees and foliage through dark window-like borders. — Dense wooded foliage appears behind dark vertical frame edges.

1958 Dayton, Ohio wooded view with tall trunks, green undergrowth, and dark scan or window edges. — Tall tree trunks and green undergrowth fill the frame.

1958 Dayton, Ohio 8mm view of pale sky behind slender trunks and leafy shrubs. — Pale sky shows through slender trees and soft green brush.

1958 Dayton, Ohio forest frame with tall trees against pale sky and dark vertical borders. — Tall trees stand against a pale sky near the end of the clip.

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