Albany New York-1964: Close Up View Of A Large Waterfall As Water Splashes Up

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationAlbany, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 New York

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Close Up View Of A Large Waterfall As Water Splashes Up — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a powerful close-up view of a massive waterfall cascading over a rocky cliff. The water plunges with force, creating a thick mist and turbulent splashes at the base. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, grainy texture, and a slightly faded purple-blue color cast typical of mid-century film. The dark frame borders suggest a home projection aesthetic, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of a personal travel memory from the 1960s.

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: 123810039

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 1070 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: worlds fair
Reel-level year note: 1964-1965
Reel-level location note: new york city
Date: 1964 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: Albany, New York, 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 8mm travel footage suited to documentary, museum, or education edits needing a close visitor-shot view of a large waterfall and misting water.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm home-movie frame, soft color, grain, and handheld framing; no clothing, vehicles, signage, or dated objects appear.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the feel of a traveler pausing on a scenic overlook to record the force and spray of the falls rather than staging an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad waterfall lip, plunging water, heavy mist, dark rocky edges, turbulent water below, distant treeline, and black film borders.
Film character: The footage shows soft focus, visible grain, purple-blue color shift, uneven exposure, and projection-like frame borders that read as physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a nature insert, travel-memory cutaway, transition into a water or landscape sequence, or atmospheric beat for archival narration.
Historical context: Cataloged to Albany, New York in 1964, the clip visually documents mid-century home-movie attention to scenic natural sites without showing people or built landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review source copyright status and confirm any location-specific claims before publication.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1960s 8mm waterfall footage, vintage home movie waterfall close-up, archival travel film water spray, and New York waterfall home movie.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel footage, then other 1964 or Albany-cataloged New York scenes, then broader vintage waterfall and nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 8mm home-movie frame cataloged to Albany, New York, showing a large waterfall, mist, rocks, and dark projection borders. — A close, soft-focus view of water falling into mist with rocky edges and black frame borders.

1964 8mm travel footage frame with a broad waterfall lip, heavy mist, dark cliff shape, and distant treeline. — The waterfall spans the frame as spray rises from the base and dark borders obscure the edges.

1964 8mm frame cataloged to Albany, New York, showing a wide waterfall, rocky foreground, mist, and distant shoreline. — A wider close view shows the waterfall edge, dark rock face, spray cloud, and water churning below.

1964 8mm home-movie frame with a broad waterfall, dark cliff edge, spray at the base, and purple-blue archival color. — Water pours over the ledge while mist billows at the base, framed by dark film borders.

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