Maine USA-1971: Bare Trees Emerging from Lake with Grassy Shore

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

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Bare Trees Emerging from Lake with Grassy Shore — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a serene natural scene in Maine. Bare trees emerge from calm blue water, their reflections rippling in the lake. A grassy field and distant hills form the backdrop under a clear sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and a distinct blue color cast, evoking a nostalgic, quiet moment from the early 1970s. The camera remains steady, offering a peaceful view of nature.

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: 123062802

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 Maine nature requests needing quiet 8mm lake scenery, rural landscape atmosphere, or non-urban environmental cutaways.
Period detail: The clip may show early 1970s home-movie landscape filming, with no visible cars, signs, buildings, clothing, or dated objects beyond the supplied 1971 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged observer's view of water, trees, fields, and distant hills, recorded as a brief scenic pause rather than a planned nature study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include bare waterside trees, blue lake water, reflections, green grass, low hills, pale sky, and dark 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm grain, soft focus, blue color shift, mild gate framing, and slight motion blur that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a calm cutaway, seasonal transition, memory beat, or establishing insert for rural Maine and lakeside nature.
Historical context: The scene reflects a non-commercial home-movie record of a quiet rural waterfront, without visible human activity or identifiable infrastructure.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private structures are visible, but copyright and any location or property questions still require normal rights review.
Research search match: Researchers may find this for 1971 8mm Maine lake footage, bare trees in water, rural grass field, home movie nature cutaway, or 1970s landscape insert.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Maine 1971 footage, then similar 8mm rural lake, field, tree, and seasonal landscape scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Maine 8mm frame of leafless trees rising from calm blue water, with a grassy field and low hills in the background. — Bare trees emerge from a lakeside area, with blue water, green grass, and low hills beyond.

1971 Maine 8mm view of leafless waterside trees reflected in a blue lake, with open green land and distant hills behind. — Leafless trees sit along the waterline, their forms reflected against the lake and field beyond.

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing a leaning bare tree over blue water, with a green field and low horizon in the background. — A wind-bent or leaning tree crosses the foreground above the blue water and grassy far shore.

1971 Maine 8mm frame of bare branches beside a blue lake, with green pasture-like land and a distant tree line beyond. — Bare branches frame the lakeside view, with open green land stretching across the far shore.

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