New York USA-1941: A Lake Surrounded By A Mountain Range And A Red Buoy

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Year1941
Decade1940s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1941 New York

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A Lake Surrounded By A Mountain Range And A Red Buoy — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from 1941, capturing a serene lake scene in New York USA. The footage shows a calm body of water surrounded by a distant mountain range under an overcast sky. A small red buoy floats on the water, and the image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight blurriness, and a cool blue color cast typical of old film stock. The shot is static, offering a nostalgic glimpse of a peaceful natural landscape from the early 20th century.

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: 123127970

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1941 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1940s New York home-movie lake footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a quiet waterside landscape insert.
Period detail: The metadata dates the clip to 1941, while the visible frames show a lake, distant hills, a buoy, and film coloration without specific landmark clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler or family-film perspective, lingering on a scenic lake view rather than presenting a formal survey shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, distant mountain ridges, a small red buoy, hazy shoreline, overcast sky, and one close frame of leafy plants.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, dust marks, gate edges, cool blue cast, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, location-establishing insert, transition between travel scenes, or reflective memory beat.
Historical context: The scene documents leisure-era landscape filming in New York, emphasizing water, hills, and shoreline atmosphere without visible people or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and location identification before publication.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1940s New York lake 8mm, home movie mountain lake buoy, vintage shoreline landscape, and archival travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel footage, then other 1941 New York scenes, and then broader lake, mountain, shoreline, or home-movie landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1941 New York home-movie frame showing variegated leafy plants in soft focus with dark film borders. — A close-up of leafy plants appears at the start of the reel section.

1941 New York lake view with distant mountain ridges, hazy shoreline, pale sky, and a small red buoy on the water. — A calm lake stretches toward distant hills with a red buoy near the right side.

1941 New York 8mm frame of a lake beneath distant mountain ridges, with a shoreline mass and small buoy visible. — The static lake view continues, showing hills across the water and a small buoy.

1941 New York lake landscape with blue-toned water, low mountain ridges, shoreline, and a small red buoy at right. — The final frame holds on the blue-toned lake and distant ridge line.

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