Florida Everglades USA-1975: Bent Palm Tree Over Lake

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationFlorida Everglades, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Bent Palm Tree Over Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil Florida Everglades scene. A distinctive bent palm tree arches over a calm lake, its fronds swaying gently against a backdrop of dense tropical foliage. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—soft focus, rich purple and blue color grading, and subtle grain. The camera moves slowly, revealing a stone-lined waterway and lush greenery, evoking a nostalgic, sun-drenched vacation memory. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling about 1970s American life.

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: 123238668

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: Florida Everglades, 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: 1970s Florida home-movie footage for productions needing a calm tropical waterway, palm trees, or Everglades-adjacent vacation atmosphere.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, handheld framing, stone-edged waterway, and period home-movie scan may show a mid-1970s Florida leisure or sightseeing view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on a distinctive bent palm and shoreline foliage without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bent palm over water, dense palms, stone edging, still lake surface, hedge-like greenery, and distant parked cars in one frame.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, purple-blue color shift, visible grain, gate edges, and slight handheld instability typical of scanned small-gauge film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, tropical cutaway, memory transition, or quiet environmental beat in a 1970s travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects a private travel record of Florida tropical landscaping and waterside recreation, without visible crowds, signage, or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright status and any site-specific property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1975 Florida 8mm lake, Everglades home movie palm tree, vintage tropical waterway footage, and 1970s vacation shoreline.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1975 Florida or Everglades material, then broader vintage tropical waterway and travel-memory scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 Florida home-movie frame showing a bent palm leaning over calm water beside a stone-lined tropical shoreline. — A bent palm curves over the water beside dense tropical planting.

1975 Florida 8mm frame of a curved palm over a lake or canal with tropical foliage and stone edging. — The arched palm remains centered over the stone-lined waterway.

Soft 8mm view of Florida shoreline foliage, palms, and stone edging along calm water in 1975 home-movie footage. — The view shifts across palms and dense greenery along the water.

1975 Florida home-movie frame looking across water toward palms, low shoreline planting, and distant parked cars. — Across the water, palms and distant cars sit beyond the shoreline.

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