Maine USA-1971: Submerged Trees in Flooded Landscape

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

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Submerged Trees in Flooded Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a flooded rural landscape in Maine. Bare trees stand partially submerged in calm blue water, their reflections rippling on the surface. Lush green grassy hills rise in the background under a pale sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and slight camera shake, conveying a quiet, melancholic atmosphere of a natural flood. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into a past environmental moment, perfect for historical or nature-themed projects.

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: 123062784

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 footage suits archival requests for rural flood, lake, wetland, or seasonal landscape inserts in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The scene may show early 1970s home-movie color stock, with bare trees, green hills, and no visible modern buildings, vehicles, signs, or utilities.
Home-movie behavior: The brief handheld view has the observational feel of a family filmer pausing on an unusual flooded landscape rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, partially submerged bare trees, reflected trunks, grassy hills, brushy banks, pale sky, and soft rural distance.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture through visible grain, mild color shift toward blue-green, soft focus, gate edges, and slight handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet cutaway, environmental insert, memory beat, or transitional view between rural landscape or water-level sequences.
Historical context: The footage provides visual context for a rural Maine landscape where water covers low ground around trees, without identifying a specific flood event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or clearly identifiable private property are visible, but copyright and contextual use still require normal archive review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 Maine 8mm flooded trees, vintage home movie lake landscape, submerged rural trees, and Super 8 water reflections.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel nature shots, then other 1971 Maine rural footage, then broader archival themes of lakes, wetlands, floods, and quiet landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing leafless trees partly submerged in calm water, with green grassy ground rising behind them. — Submerged trees and reflections in a flooded rural landscape.

1971 Maine 8mm frame with bare trunks, low brush, and fence-like posts reflected in blue water below a green hillside. — Floodwater surrounds leafless trees at the edge of a grassy slope.

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing a closer view of bare trees in blue floodwater, with tangled branches and a grassy rise in back. — A closer handheld view of trees standing in pooled water.

1971 Maine 8mm frame of submerged trunks and tangled branches reflected in still blue water below an open green hill. — Still water reflects leafless trees in the flooded low ground.

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