Wisconsin USA-1964: Lake Surrounded By Steep Rocky Cliffs With Trees

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Wisconsin

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Lake Surrounded By Steep Rocky Cliffs With Trees — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1964 showing a serene lake surrounded by steep, tree-covered rocky cliffs in Wisconsin. The view is framed by dark window edges and foreground foliage, including oak leaves and pine branches, creating a natural vignette. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, warm color tones, and visible grain, scratches, and dust. The camera slowly pans across the landscape, revealing layered rock formations and calm water under an overcast sky. This authentic archival clip captures the quiet beauty of a mid-century American natural landscape, ideal for nostalgic or historical projects.

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: 121503253

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: Wisconsin, 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: Useful for 1960s American nature or travel sequences needing archival 8mm lake scenery from Wisconsin for documentary, museum, education, or memory-led edits.
Period detail: The scene may show a mid-century visitor viewpoint, with the date supported by metadata rather than visible signage, clothing, vehicles, or architecture.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the lake from behind dark window or shelter edges and foreground branches, giving the landscape an informal visitor-shot home-movie perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, steep layered rock cliffs, dense trees, distant wooded hills, dark framing edges, oak-like leaves, and pine branches.
Film character: The clip has a soft 8mm film texture with muted color, visible grain, dust, light scratches, and slight handheld instability that preserve its scanned home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet landscape insert, travel transition, location-establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a longer archival sequence.
Historical context: The footage places a Wisconsin natural landscape within a 1960s home-movie record of leisure viewing, without visible people, signage, or identifiable public event context.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any site-specific property or filming permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Searches such as 1960s Wisconsin lake 8mm footage, vintage rocky cliff landscape, home movie lake view, and Midwestern nature travel cutaway may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Wisconsin or 1964 outdoor footage, then with broader 1960s lake, cliff, forest, and home-movie travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing calm water, tree-covered rock cliffs, dark window-like edges, and foreground foliage. — Lake and wooded rock cliffs seen through dark framing and overhead leaves.

1964 Wisconsin home-movie view of a steep wooded rock formation beside still lake water, framed by a dark foreground edge. — Tree-covered rock face rising from the lake beside a dark foreground edge.

1964 Wisconsin 8mm still with calm lake water, wooded rock cliffs, a foreground pine branch, and soft distant hills. — Foreground pine branch crosses a soft view of lake water and wooded cliffs.

1964 Wisconsin frame showing a wooded rocky cliff at the water's edge, foreground pine needles, and a hazy lake backdrop. — Wooded rock cliff and still lake viewed past foreground pine needles.

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