Maine USA-1971: A Landscape Showing The Green Trees And Grass With A Brown Mining Tower

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationMaine, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 Maine

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A Landscape Showing The Green Trees And Grass With A... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a serene rural landscape in Maine. Rolling green hills stretch beneath a moody, overcast sky, with a prominent brown mining tower standing as a focal point. The footage shows subtle camera movement, revealing the structure and surrounding countryside. The image has a distinct blue color cast and grainy texture typical of Super 8 film, with natural foliage and open fields creating a nostalgic, archival feel. This authentic 1970s home movie offers a quiet glimpse into American countryside life.

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: 123062526

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 1008 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: new york,vermont,new hampshire,maine
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: Maine, 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 U.S. rural landscape requests needing a brief archival cutaway of open countryside with an industrial or mining tower in view.
Period detail: The 1971 8mm metadata and blue-tinted home-movie scan support an early-1970s context, while the visible tower and rolling fields may show rural industrial surroundings.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged home-movie look, with a distant, handheld view across fields rather than a composed commercial landscape shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rolling green hills, dark tree lines, bare foreground branches, an overcast blue sky, a brown tower structure, and open grassland.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, gate edges, blue color cast, and slight handheld framing that preserve its physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, industrial landscape cutaway, quiet transition, or memory beat within a 1970s archival sequence.
Historical context: The view places a tower-like industrial structure within open Maine countryside, suggesting a rural working landscape without identifying the exact site.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the tower and land should still be reviewed for property, location, copyright, and contextual use concerns.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1971 Maine 8mm rural landscape, vintage mining tower countryside, 1970s home movie fields, and archival New England hills.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other Maine 1971 rural views, then broader 1970s countryside or industrial landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing rolling green fields, a dark tree line, and a distant brown tower beneath a blue overcast sky. — Distant tower and green hillside seen across rural Maine fields.

1971 Maine 8mm view of a brown tower set against green hills, dark trees, and a muted blue sky. — Brown tower structure stands below rolling green hills.

1971 Maine 8mm frame with the tower larger in view, backed by grassy hills, scattered trees, and a cloudy blue sky. — Closer rural view of the tower below a green hillside.

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing a tower beside open countryside, with wooded slopes and a blue overcast sky in the distance. — Tower and wooded hillside remain in view near the end of the clip.

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