Maine USA-1971: Dead Tree in Shallow Water at Marshland

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

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Dead Tree in Shallow Water at Marshland — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a hauntingly beautiful scene of a dead tree standing in shallow water at a scenic marshland in Maine. The bare, gnarled branches stretch against a deep blue sky, their reflection mirrored in the calm water. The footage, framed by dark borders, shows subtle camera movement as it pans across the tranquil landscape, with green grass and distant hills visible under a soft, overcast light. The film’s characteristic grain and color palette evoke a strong sense of nostalgia and quiet 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: 123062698

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s Maine nature, wetlands, landscape memory, or quiet Americana cutaways in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm-era color, rounded frame edges, and a simple handheld view of a flooded tree line, with no visible structures to date beyond the supplied 1971 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie gaze, pausing on an unusual dead tree in shallow water rather than recording people or an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue water, a gnarled leafless tree, grassy banks, distant low hills, bare branches, soft sky, and dark film-gate borders.
Film character: The scan carries visible 8mm grain, saturated blue water, slight softness, handheld reframing, and dark contact-sheet borders that mark it as physical home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a nature insert, reflective transition, geographic cutaway, or quiet memory beat between Maine travel or environmental scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents a modest observed wetland or marsh edge in Maine, emphasizing landscape texture and amateur travel observation without identifiable people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any environmental or land-use claims should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1971 Maine 8mm marsh footage, dead tree in water, vintage wetland landscape, home movie nature cutaway, and scenic rural water view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then with 1971 Maine landscapes, then with broader vintage wetland, rural water, and quiet nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing a gnarled dead tree in shallow blue water with grass and distant low hills beyond it. — A bare tree stands partly in shallow water along a grassy marsh edge.

1971 Maine home-movie frame with a closer view of a twisted leafless tree at the waterline and open grass behind it. — The camera moves closer to the twisted tree rooted at the edge of the water.

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing the dead tree larger in view, with tangled branches crossing the blue water surface. — A closer frame isolates the tree's tangled trunk and branches over the marsh water.

1971 Maine 8mm frame with the gnarled tree filling more of the shot, bordered by saturated blue water and a strip of green grass. — The final frame holds on the tree's dark branching form against the water.

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