Maine USA-1971: A Mine Derrick In The Mountains

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

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A Mine Derrick In The Mountains — Clip Details

MAINE USA-1971: A vintage 8mm film clip captures a towering industrial mine derrick against a clear blue sky. The camera pans down and zooms out, revealing the full structure with its intricate metal framework, staircases, and a small building at its base. The scene is set in a mountainous, forested landscape, with distant peaks visible under bright daylight. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-20th century industrial life in rural Maine.

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: 123062864

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 archival requests needing rural industrial infrastructure, mining-related machinery, or mountain-region worksite cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The footage may show an early-1970s mine headframe or derrick with steel latticework, stairs, and a small base structure in a wooded mountain setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the structure from a visitor-like vantage point, panning and reframing to record its height and mechanical detail rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a tall steel derrick, stair runs, cross-bracing, a small attached building, forested hills, distant mountains, clear sky, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has saturated blue sky, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure shifts, and handheld framing that preserve the texture of a physical home-movie reel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, industrial cutaway, regional transition, or quiet memory beat between broader scenes about mining, labor, or rural landscapes.
Historical context: The clip visually connects industrial structures with a forested Maine mountain landscape, without showing workers, signage, active extraction, or identifiable company markings.
Research note: No people or logos are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property or site permissions should be reviewed separately before reuse.
Research search match: Searchers may match this to 1971 8mm Maine mine derrick footage, rural industrial headframe, mountain mining structure, or vintage home-movie industrial cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Maine 1971 footage, then broader mining, industrial machinery, rural worksite, or mountain landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing the upper portion of a steel mine derrick or headframe against blue sky. — The top of the steel derrick fills the frame against a bright sky.

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing a tall industrial derrick with forested hills and distant mountains behind it. — The camera frames the derrick with wooded hills and mountains in the background.

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing the derrick structure from midsection to base, including a small building. — The lower structure reveals cross-bracing, platforms, and the attached base building.

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing the full mine derrick structure with a small base building in a mountain landscape. — The wider view places the derrick and base structure within the surrounding forested terrain.

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