Oregon USA-: A Serene View Of A Quiet Lake In 1958

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Year1958
Decade1950s
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Oregon USA-: A Serene View Of A Quiet Lake In 1958 — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene, wide-angle view of a calm lake surrounded by rolling hills and sparse trees. The footage, framed by dark borders typical of Super 8 film, shows a slow pan across the water, revealing a quiet shoreline with scattered houses and a distant bridge. The muted color palette and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, timeless atmosphere, characteristic of mid-century American home movies. This archival clip offers a peaceful glimpse into a quiet rural landscape, perfect for historical or editorial projects.

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: 123478379

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: 1958 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: Not recorded Unidentified (Insufficient evidence for a responsible conclusion.)
Location evidence: No location is recorded for this clip.
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 1950s archival requests needing a quiet rural lake view as documentary atmosphere, travel context, or a reflective landscape insert.
Period detail: The frames may show a mid-century home-movie landscape view, with soft color, distant shoreline structures, and open hills visible through the 8mm scan.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, observing the lake and far shore from a fixed or gently moving vantage point without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, a narrow shoreline, rolling hills, scattered trees, distant small structures, soft sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has muted color, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that preserve its physical 8mm home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a landscape cutaway, memory beat, regional establishing insert, or quiet transition between more active home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The view suggests rural or small-town leisure travel in the late 1950s, though the exact lake and community are not identified in the supplied metadata.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but location, shoreline property, and underlying copyright status should be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 8mm lake footage, 1950s rural water landscape, vintage home movie shoreline, and quiet American lake view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then with confirmed 1958 or regional lake footage, and finally with quiet rural landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A muted 8mm frame shows calm water, a far shoreline, scattered trees, and rolling hills in soft focus. — Calm lake and distant hillside shoreline seen through soft 8mm color.

The lake fills the foreground while a pale shoreline, small tree clusters, and low hills sit in the distance. — Wide lake view with distant shore, trees, and low hills.

A soft, hazy 8mm frame shows open water, a thin shoreline, scattered trees, and distant hills. — Open water and hazy hillside shoreline in a quiet landscape view.

The final frame shows the lake stretching toward a distant tree-lined shore and low hills, bordered by the 8mm scan frame. — Lake surface, distant tree line, and hills framed by dark 8mm borders.

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