Maine USA-1971: Beautiful Flooded Trees Reflect in Still Water

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

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Beautiful Flooded Trees Reflect in Still Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a hauntingly beautiful flooded landscape in Maine. Bare trees stand submerged in still, blue-tinged water, their gnarled branches and trunks reflected perfectly on the surface. The scene evokes a quiet, melancholic mood, with subtle camera movement revealing different angles of the drowned woodland. The film's characteristic grain and color saturation enhance its nostalgic, archival quality, making it ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling about nature and memory.

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: 123062758

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: 1971 Maine 8mm nature footage suited for documentary inserts needing a quiet flooded woodland, still water, and reflective seasonal landscape without people or modern signage.
Period detail: The frames show rural outdoor scenery with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, or signs, so the 1971 period is supported by clip metadata rather than visible era markers.
Home-movie behavior: The brief handheld view lingers on submerged trees and reflections, preserving an unstaged home-movie observation of a flooded natural place.
What appears in frame: Visible details include bare trees standing in blue-toned water, branch reflections, fence-like posts, grassy banks, dark film borders, and slight framing shifts.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, blue-green color cast, gate edges, and mild handheld drift that give the shot physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a reflective cutaway, seasonal transition, memory beat, or atmospheric insert in a sequence about wetlands, flooding, rural Maine, or landscape change.
Historical context: The clip documents a quiet flooded woodland scene in Maine, with natural water levels and bare trees visible but no identifiable event, landmark, or human activity shown.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, interiors, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and location context for their project.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 Maine 8mm flooded trees, vintage home movie wetlands, still water reflections, bare trees in swamp, and rural landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Maine 1971 exteriors, then related flooded woodland, wetland, riverbank, or reflective water footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing leafless trees partly submerged in blue-toned water with branches reflected on the surface. — Bare trees and submerged branches reflected in still floodwater.

1971 Maine 8mm frame with bare trunks, reflected branches, and thin posts standing in calm flooded water. — Flooded woodland with bare trunks, posts, and reflected branches.

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing a closer flooded tree line, reflected trunks, pale branches, and a green bank beyond the water. — Closer view of submerged tree trunks and pale branches in still water.

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing flooded bare trees, a dark branch or post across the water, and blue reflections near a grassy bank. — Flooded trees and a dark branch reflected near the bank.

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