New York USA-1959: Driving Down A Country Road Passed Old Power Lines Against

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

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Driving Down A Country Road Passed Old Power Lines Against — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a scenic drive through a rural New York landscape. The camera moves steadily forward, revealing rolling hills, dense trees, and classic wooden power poles lining the road. The sky shifts from bright blue to soft dusk tones, with subtle cloud formations and film grain adding authentic texture. The footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of mid-century Americana, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123044829

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: Useful for 1950s rural New York road-travel inserts, mid-century landscape context, or documentary transitions evoking movement through countryside.
Period detail: Wooden utility poles, overhead lines, a narrow rural road edge, wooded hills, and 8mm color stock may show mid-century roadside infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational feel of a passenger filming from a moving vehicle, preserving an unstaged glimpse of a rural route.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rolling hills, trees, roadside shadows, wooden power poles, overhead wires, blue sky, light clouds, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate shadows, and slight motion blur from the moving camera.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, rural transition, memory beat, or cutaway between scenes about roads, utilities, or countryside.
Historical context: The view documents a quiet rural landscape with utility lines crossing open sky, reflecting everyday roadside scenery rather than a named landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any incidental property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1959 8mm rural New York driving footage, country road power lines, vintage roadside hills, and home movie landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1959 New York travel footage, then with rural driving, power line, and countryside themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 8mm rural New York road view with wooded hills, blue sky, dark frame edges, and a utility pole near the roadside. — Wooded hills and a roadside utility pole appear through dark 8mm frame edges.

Rural New York landscape from the moving 8mm camera, with distant hills, trees, sky, and overhead utility lines. — A distant hill and roadside trees pass behind dark film gate edges.

1959 8mm frame of a rural New York roadside with a wooden utility pole, rolling hill, trees, and soft evening-toned sky. — A wooden pole stands against pale sky and rolling countryside.

Rural New York 8mm road view showing a utility pole, overhead wire, low hills, trees, and blue sky through grainy exposure. — Overhead wire and a roadside pole cross a grainy view of low hills.

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