Maine USA-1971: Meadow with Pond and Tall Reeds

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

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Meadow with Pond and Tall Reeds — Clip Details

MAINE USA-1971: A serene 8mm home movie captures a panoramic view of a sun-drenched meadow, featuring a small pond surrounded by tall reeds and lush green grass. Tall evergreen and pine trees frame the landscape under a bright blue sky with fluffy white clouds. The footage, shot from a fixed perspective, shows subtle camera movement, revealing the tranquil rural setting with natural shadows and vibrant, slightly faded colors characteristic of vintage Super 8 film.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123063240

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 rural landscape requests needing quiet 8mm nature footage for documentary inserts, regional context, or reflective transitions.
Period detail: The clip may show early 1970s home-movie color stock, with no visible modern signage, vehicles, buildings, or other date-specific objects in the meadow scene.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the pond and meadow from a casual fixed vantage, preserving the unposed feel of a family or traveler filming scenery.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small pond, reed beds, green meadow grass, pine and evergreen trees, a low fence, blue sky, clouds, and soft shadows.
Film character: The 8mm image has saturated greens and blues, slight softness, visible grain, gate edges, and gentle handheld drift that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, a calm cutaway, a memory beat, or a transition between Maine outdoor scenes.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for a quiet rural or park-like landscape in Maine, emphasizing open grass, water, reeds, and evergreen tree cover.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1971 Maine 8mm meadow footage, rural pond with reeds, evergreen landscape, home movie nature cutaway, and vintage outdoor scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1971 Maine landscapes, then broader vintage pond, meadow, evergreen, and rural nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Maine 8mm view of a grassy meadow and pond bordered by reeds, with pine and evergreen trees under a bright sky. — A still pond and reed bed sit in a green meadow bordered by tall evergreens.

1971 Maine landscape frame showing pond reeds, open meadow grass, tall pines, and a tree line beneath scattered clouds. — Reeds fill the pond edge as the view opens toward grass and tall trees.

1971 Maine home-movie frame with pond reeds, a green field, a low fence, and evergreen trees in a quiet rural setting. — The camera pans across the pond toward a fenced grassy area and evergreen trees.

1971 Maine 8mm frame looking across pond reeds toward a fenced meadow and a line of pine and evergreen trees. — Pond reeds and open grass lead the eye toward a fence and tall evergreens.

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