Washington DC-1975: Suburban Neighborhood with Open Fields

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationWashington, DC, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1970 Washington DC

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Suburban Neighborhood with Open Fields — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a quiet suburban neighborhood from a moving vehicle. The black-and-white footage shows modest houses with bare trees lining the streets, transitioning to open fields and rolling hills in the distance. Power lines and leafless trees frame the view, with a classic car visible in one frame. The grainy texture and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, personal memory of a peaceful American town.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123209539

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: 1975 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: Washington, DC, 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

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 1970s 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a quiet residential-to-rural roadside view near Washington, DC.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1970s visual clues in the older car shape, modest detached houses, overhead utility poles, and leafless suburban streetscape.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the unstaged passenger-window perspective, with the camera drifting past houses, trees, and fields as part of ordinary travel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include detached houses, a parked older car, bare trees, utility poles, roadside yards, open fields, rolling hills, and soft distant tree lines.
Film character: Black-and-white 8mm texture shows soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, gate-edge darkness, and handheld movement from a moving vehicle.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, suburban memory beat, or cutaway from residential streets to open countryside.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for a quiet American residential edge where houses, roadways, utility lines, and open land meet without visible pedestrians.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any recognizable property context still need normal review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1970s 8mm black-and-white home movie neighborhood drive, Washington DC suburban houses, bare trees, utility poles, and open fields.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Washington DC 1975 material, then similar 1970s home-movie neighborhood and roadside field views.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 8mm view near Washington, DC, showing detached houses, leafless trees, and part of an older car from a moving vehicle. — Residential houses and a partly seen older car pass by behind bare trees.

Black-and-white 8mm frame of open land near Washington, DC, with utility poles, bare branches, and low hills in the distance. — Utility poles and tree branches frame open fields and distant hills.

1975 home-movie frame looking from a vehicle across fields, scattered trees, and a low horizon through roadside trunks. — A moving roadside view opens onto fields, scattered trees, and low hills.

Black-and-white 8mm view near Washington, DC, with leafless trees, utility poles, open fields, and a small structure at the lower edge. — Bare trees, poles, and a small roadside structure stand before open fields.

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