Maine USA-1971: Leafless Tree in Flooded Swamp

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

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Leafless Tree in Flooded Swamp — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a solitary leafless tree standing in a flooded swamp in Maine. The bare branches stretch upward against a muted green hillside, their reflection rippling in the still, blue-tinged water. Wooden posts emerge from the flood, hinting at a submerged landscape. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a soft focus, evoking a quiet, melancholic mood. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of rural New England nature, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123062771

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 for requests needing a quiet rural New England swamp, pond, floodwater, or seasonal landscape cutaway.
Period detail: The frame may show early 1970s home-movie color response, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, signage, or landmarks to date the scene beyond the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on an unstaged outdoor view, valuing a small flooded landscape and solitary tree as a personal travel or family-film observation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include leafless trees, blue-tinged floodwater, grassy banks, wooden posts, brush, reflections, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, and a steady held composition that reads as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a nature insert, reflective transition, memory beat, or environmental cutaway within a rural Maine or seasonal sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually documents a quiet wetland or flooded field scene without people, structures, or activity, so broader historical meaning should be supplied by surrounding material.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private structures are visible, but copyright, location, and property-context review should still be handled separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1971 Maine 8mm swamp tree, vintage home movie flooded pond, rural New England wetland, and leafless tree reflection footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Maine 1971 exteriors, then broader rural wetland, pond, floodwater, or quiet landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing a leafless tree and brush reflected in flooded water, with grassy ground beyond. — A bare tree stands in still floodwater, with grass and brush visible beyond the ponded area.

1971 Maine home-movie frame with a bare tree in shallow floodwater, brush along the bank, and soft blue-green color. — The camera frames the tree from across the water, with posts and brush breaking the surface.

1971 Maine 8mm still of a leafless tree rooted in floodwater, with muted grass, brush, and dark frame edges. — A solitary tree fills the frame, its pale branches mirrored in the quiet water below.

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing a bare tree rising from blue floodwater, with green grass and low brush in the background. — The final frame holds on the tree and its reflection within a still, flooded rural landscape.

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