New York USA-1959: Driving Down A Country Road With Many Trees And The Woods

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Driving Down A Country Road With Many Trees And The Woods — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive through rural New York. The view from a moving vehicle shows rolling hills, dense tree lines, and open countryside under a bright blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: grainy texture, slight color fading, and a dark border framing the image. The camera moves steadily, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century American landscapes, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 123044822

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 1101 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: north pole,game farm,amusement park, reel 2
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1959 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 rural New York driving footage for productions needing a short home-movie view of wooded countryside and rolling hills from a moving car.
Period detail: The 8mm color, dark frame edges, and soft roadside landscape support a late-1950s home-movie travel context, though no specific landmark is visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged passenger-window perspective, recording scenery as the vehicle passes trees, hills, and roadside shadows.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tree lines, wooded hills, blue sky, roadside vegetation, dark window or film-frame edges, and brief glimpses of a country road.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, slight color fade, soft focus, uneven exposure, and dark gate or window borders that give it a clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural travel insert, memory transition, countryside cutaway, or establishing beat between family or road-trip scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests mid-century leisure or family travel through rural New York without showing identifiable people, businesses, or civic landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or clearly identifiable private property are visible, but copyright and location clearance should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s 8mm rural New York drive, home movie country road, wooded hills from car, and vintage roadside landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1959 New York home movies, then broader rural driving, woods, and mid-century road-trip footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 rural New York home-movie view of distant wooded hills and blue sky from a moving vehicle. — Distant hills and trees appear beyond dark window or film-frame edges.

Passenger-side 8mm view of rural New York trees and low hills under a bright sky in 1959 footage. — Trees and distant hills pass behind heavy dark frame edges.

Rural New York road scene with roadside trees, a distant hill, and shadowed vegetation in 1959 8mm footage. — A road edge and tree-lined countryside appear as the vehicle moves forward.

Late-1950s 8mm view of a wooded rural New York roadside with hills beyond and strong dark frame borders. — The roadside trees darken the frame while low hills remain visible in the distance.

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