Walworth Wisconsin USA-1963: Sunset over Farmland and Fairground

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationWalworth, Wisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 Walworth Wisconsin

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Sunset over Farmland and Fairground — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a serene rural sunset in Walworth, Wisconsin. The sequence shows a vibrant pink and purple sky with dark cloud formations over a silhouetted treeline and open field, viewed through a window frame. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, grain, and subtle color shifts. The final frame transitions to a lively outdoor gathering with people, vintage tractors, and a tent, suggesting a community event or fair. This authentic 1960s footage offers nostalgic Americana for documentaries, editorial content, and history 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: 123776841

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1641 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: barrington,centennial parade,walworth county fair,reel-3
Reel-level year note: 1963
Reel-level location note: elkhorn,wisconsin,california, san pedro
Date: 1963 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: Walworth, Wisconsin, 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

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: 1960s Wisconsin 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a rural sunset, quiet farmland atmosphere, or a soft transitional beat into community-life material.
Period detail: The frames show open farmland, a low treeline, and saturated pink-purple color typical of aged small-gauge home movies, with the 1963 Walworth setting supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, holding on a sunset through a dark window or frame rather than presenting a composed commercial landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pink evening sky, dark cloud banks, silhouetted trees, open field, window-frame edges, film grain, and small dust specks.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, visible grain, slight color shift, uneven exposure, and dark frame edges that preserve the physical character of the source film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet insert, rural establishing cutaway, dusk transition, or memory beat before or after family and community footage from the same reel.
Historical context: The view suggests midwestern rural surroundings and domestic observation of the landscape, while the community-gathering context comes from the clip metadata rather than these sunset frames.
Research note: People are flagged elsewhere in the clip, so likeness review may be needed even though these stills show no discernible faces, and copyright clearance remains separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1963 Wisconsin 8mm sunset, rural midwestern farmland at dusk, vintage home movie treeline, and Walworth Wisconsin archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Walworth 1963 material, then broader 1960s rural Wisconsin sunsets or community-gathering footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1963 Walworth, Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a pink-purple sunset behind silhouetted trees and farmland, bordered by dark interior framing. — Pink evening sky and silhouetted rural treeline viewed through a dark frame.

1963 Walworth, Wisconsin 8mm view of a pastel dusk sky with cloud banks over a dark treeline and farmland horizon. — Pastel dusk clouds over a silhouetted rural horizon.

Walworth, Wisconsin home-movie frame from 1963 showing soft pink dusk light over farmland, trees, and purple cloud forms. — Soft dusk light over field, trees, and cloud shapes.

1963 Walworth, Wisconsin 8mm still of a rural sunset with silhouetted trees, open field, and aged film color shifts. — Silhouetted treeline and open field under a pink-purple sky.

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