Illinois USA-1962: Shaky 8mm Footage of Large Bushy Tree with Telegraph Pole

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Year1962
Decade1960s
LocationIllinois, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1962 Illinois

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Shaky 8mm Footage of Large Bushy Tree with Telegraph Pole — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1962, this vintage home movie captures a large, bushy, and voluminous tree with cascading branches in a rural Illinois setting. The footage, slightly shaky, shows the tree in full summer foliage with green leaves and hints of yellow, set against a bright blue sky. A wooden telegraph pole and wires run vertically through the frame, with a gravel path and grassy field in the foreground. The natural, unfiltered look of the Super 8 film adds to its nostalgic, archival charm.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123718158

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 2325 · 8mm · 3″ reel
Original reel label: glenn t evans
Reel-level year note: 1962
Reel-level location note: moline illinois
Date: 1962 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: Illinois, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Suits 1960s rural Americana documentary sequences, B-roll packages on postwar Midwest life, or cutaway coverage for regional history and nature productions.
Period detail: The wooden telegraph pole with ceramic-style insulators and overhead wires, combined with the 8mm film stock, are consistent with early-1960s rural Midwestern America.
Home-movie behavior: The slightly handheld framing of an ordinary roadside tree suggests a home-movie maker pausing to document a familiar local landscape on a summer outing.
What appears in frame: Large weeping-style tree in full summer foliage, wooden telegraph pole, overhead telephone wires, pale blue sky, gravel path in foreground, green grassy slope, low fence or hedgerow behind tree, and a dark shape at the left edge.
Film character: The 8mm frame shows warm color saturation typical of mid-century reversal stock, with soft tonal compression and light grain that gives the image its characteristic vintage texture.
Edit role: Functions as a rural Americana cutaway or nature interstitial, well-suited as a scene-setting insert between dialogue or action sequences in 1960s period documentaries.
Historical context: The overhead telegraph pole and wires reflect mid-20th-century rural infrastructure common across the American Midwest before underground cable replacement became widespread.
Research note: No people, faces, minors, or brand logos are visible; the pole and wires appear to be public-right-of-way infrastructure; standard archival copyright licensing terms apply and clearance is not guaranteed.
Research search match: Likely found via queries such as '1960s rural Illinois B-roll,' 'summer tree 8mm,' 'Midwest countryside vintage footage,' or 'telegraph pole archival film.'
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other Illinois 1962 clips from the same reel, then with rural Midwest 1960s landscape footage, then with general 1960s countryside or nature cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

Handheld 8mm shot circa 1962, rural Illinois: large weeping-style tree beside a wooden telegraph pole, gravel road in foreground, summer foliage. — Large roadside tree with telegraph pole, rural Illinois, circa 1962.

8mm home-movie frame circa 1962, rural Illinois: large roadside tree with a telegraph pole to the right, gravel foreground, slight rightward camera shift. — Bushy roadside tree and telegraph pole, rural Illinois, circa 1962.

Mid-clip 8mm frame circa 1962, rural Illinois: large roadside tree with cascading branches flanked by a wooden telegraph pole, summer foliage and gravel foreground. — Summer tree and telegraph infrastructure, rural Illinois, circa 1962.

Final frame of 8mm clip circa 1962, rural Illinois: large bushy tree beside a wooden telegraph pole, gravel path in foreground, slight shift in handheld framing. — Roadside tree with telegraph pole and wires, rural Illinois, circa 1962.

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