Maine USA-1971: Derelict Stone Building In Abandoned Countryside

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

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Derelict Stone Building In Abandoned Countryside — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a derelict stone building in a quiet countryside setting. The structure, with its weathered facade and arched windows, shows signs of abandonment, surrounded by bare trees and overgrown greenery. The footage, framed by dark borders typical of Super 8 film, includes a brief black frame, suggesting a home movie edit. The scene evokes a sense of forgotten history and rural decay, with natural light highlighting the texture of the aged stonework.

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: 123063447

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s archival requests needing rural Maine decay, abandoned stone architecture, or quiet countryside cutaways from original 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The 1971 date is metadata-supported, while the visible clues are bare trees, rough stonework, arched openings, metal bars, and overgrown vegetation around an older rural structure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, pausing on a weathered stone building without people, performance, or staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rough stone walls, arched windows and doorways, metal grilles, bare tree trunks, brush, greenery, dark film borders, and a brief black frame.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows grain, slight softness, uneven exposure, blue-green color shift, and dark frame edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, establishing insert, memory beat, or transition into themes of abandonment, rural history, or weathered architecture.
Historical context: The footage documents a quiet countryside view of an older stone structure in Maine, with no visible people or activity to identify a specific use or history.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the visible structure may still require copyright, location, or property-rights review depending on intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1971 Maine 8mm abandoned stone building, rural derelict architecture home movie, and weathered countryside structure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Maine 1971 countryside material, then broader themes of abandoned rural buildings and stone ruins.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing a derelict stone facade with arched barred windows, bare trees, and dark film borders. — A rough stone facade with arched barred windows stands among leafless trees.

1971 Maine 8mm frame of a weathered stone building corner with an arched window, bare trees, and overgrown countryside brush. — The camera holds on the stone corner and arched opening amid trees and brush.

1971 Maine 8mm frame showing an arched stone doorway with metal bars, rough masonry, bare branches, and greenery beyond. — A barred arched doorway frames trees and greenery behind the derelict wall.

1971 Maine 8mm frame of a barred arched doorway in a derelict stone wall, with trees and undergrowth visible through the opening. — The final frame centers the arched stone opening and metal bars against the wooded background.

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