Maine USA-1971: Rural Landscape With Mining Tower And White House

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

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Rural Landscape With Mining Tower And White House — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a quiet rural landscape in Maine. Rolling green hills stretch beneath a moody blue sky, dotted with trees and a prominent mining tower structure. The footage shows a large white house nestled in the valley, with the camera panning slowly to reveal the expansive countryside. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, documentary-style feel of mid-20th century Americana.

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: 123062544

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 rural New England establishing shots, landscape cutaways, and documentary sequences needing quiet countryside with an industrial-looking tower.
Period detail: The 8mm color, distant rural buildings, rolling fields, and metal tower may show early 1970s Maine countryside without enough detail to identify a specific site.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a distance in a casual home-movie manner, holding and panning across the landscape rather than staging activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green hills, wooded ridgelines, a dark tower structure, a white house, open fields, cloudy blue sky, and heavy film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, cool blue color shift, soft focus, exposure variation, and slight handheld instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, reflective transition, rural context cutaway, or memory beat between scenes about Maine or countryside travel.
Historical context: The view places rural domestic architecture and a tower-like industrial structure within open farmland, suggesting a quiet landscape shaped by both residence and work.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should be assessed separately by the user.
Research search match: Searches such as 1971 Maine rural landscape, 8mm countryside tower, vintage home movie hills, and rural New England house may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1971 Maine footage, then broader rural landscape or industrial-countryside material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing green hills, trees, and a dark tower structure beneath a cool blue sky. — A distant tower stands against rolling green hills and a wooded ridgeline.

1971 Maine home-movie view of a rural tower structure set below wooded hills and a blue overcast sky. — The tower remains centered in a distant rural landscape.

1971 Maine 8mm frame with a white house, rolling fields, trees, and a dark tower structure in the distance. — A white house and tower sit apart within rolling countryside.

1971 Maine rural view showing a white house, open fields, wooded hills, and the tower structure near the frame edge. — The camera frames the house and fields as the tower shifts to the edge.

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