California USA-1971: Green Field And Tree Line With Wooden Fence

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationCalifornia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 California

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Green Field And Tree Line With Wooden Fence — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a serene rural landscape in California. The view, framed by dark borders, shows a wide green field under a clear blue sky, with a dense line of trees in the distance. A wooden fence runs across the middle ground, and a small blue structure is visible near the treeline. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, pastoral Americana feel. The camera appears to be moving slowly, offering a peaceful glimpse of countryside life.

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: 123053644

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1758 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: III-02,sacto state
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: california,sacramento
Date: 1971 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: California, 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 1970s California rural landscape requests needing quiet 8mm home-movie cutaways, countryside inserts, or pastoral establishing material.
Period detail: The clip may show an early-1970s rural field scene, with simple wooden fencing, open grass, and a small blue structure as visible period-neutral details.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged home-movie view from a moving camera, observing a field and treeline without formal composition or narration.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green pasture, dense treeline, blue sky, wooden fence, dark film-frame borders, a small blue structure, and distant tiny human figures.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, saturated greens and blues, visible grain, gate borders, dust marks, and slight handheld or moving-camera instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, travel transition, memory beat, or quiet cutaway between California home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for open rural land and casual home-movie looking in California, without identifying a specific town, property, or event.
Research note: People appear only as very distant figures, but likeness, property, copyright, and location claims should still be reviewed before sensitive or commercial use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1971 California 8mm rural landscape, vintage home movie field and treeline, wooden fence pasture footage, and pastoral Americana cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other California 1971 clips, then broader 1970s rural landscape, pasture, fence, and treeline footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 California 8mm frame showing a green field, distant trees, blue sky, and dark gate borders from the film scan. — A wide green field sits before a dense treeline beneath a clear blue sky.

1971 California 8mm view of open grassland, a distant treeline, a small blue structure, and visible film-frame borders. — The moving view passes open grassland with a small blue structure near the trees.

1971 California 8mm frame with a green field, low wooden fence, distant trees, blue sky, and soft home-movie focus. — A low wooden fence cuts across the field before the distant tree line.

1971 California 8mm frame showing a fence along grass, a pale field, dense trees, and very distant tiny human figures. — A fence borders the grass and pale field, with tiny distant figures near the treeline.

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