Maine USA-1971: Flooded Field With Bare Trees And Grassy Hill

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

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Flooded Field With Bare Trees And Grassy Hill — Clip Details

MAINE USA-1971: A serene, isolated landscape captured on 8mm film, showing a flooded field with bare trees partially submerged in still water. The scene is framed by dark borders, suggesting viewing through a window or projector. A grassy hill rises in the background under a pale blue sky, with a power line stretching across the top. The footage exhibits natural film grain and a slightly faded color palette typical of vintage home movies from the early 1970s. No people are present, emphasizing the quiet, untouched nature of the rural setting.

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: 123062645

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 Maine archive requests needing an atmospheric landscape cutaway, floodplain insert, or quiet home-movie nature detail.
Period detail: The 8mm color, soft focus, slight fading, and visible power line support an early 1970s rural roadside or window-framed view without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The short static view has the observational feel of a home-movie operator pausing on an unusual flooded field rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include still water, bare partially submerged trees, green grass, a rounded hill, pale sky, a diagonal power line, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip carries visible 8mm grain, mild color fading, soft exposure, gate edges, and slight frame variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet transition, rural establishing insert, environmental cutaway, or reflective memory beat between more active scenes.
Historical context: The scene may show seasonal flooding or high water in a rural landscape, but the frames do not identify a cause, named storm, farm, town, or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, though copyright, location verification, and any property-context questions still require normal review.
Research search match: Searches such as 1971 Maine 8mm flooded field, rural home movie bare trees, vintage floodplain landscape, and Super 8 grassy hill may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Maine 1971 rural landscapes, then broader vintage 8mm water, flooding, and countryside material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing still floodwater around bare trees, with a grassy hill and diagonal power line beyond. — Bare trees stand in still floodwater below a green hill.

1971 Maine 8mm view of partially submerged bare trees and calm water, backed by a low green hill and pale sky. — A quiet flooded field sits beneath a low grassy hill.

1971 Maine home-movie frame with bare trees in floodwater, a grassy bank, hilltop trees, and visible 8mm gate borders. — Still water surrounds leafless trees at the base of a hill.

1971 Maine 8mm frame of a quiet flooded field, bare trees, grassy slope, pale sky, and a diagonal overhead line. — A flooded rural field appears still and empty under pale sky.

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