Albany New York-1968: Calm Lake with Hills and Mountains

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationAlbany, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Albany New York

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Calm Lake with Hills and Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside landscape in Albany, New York. The footage pans across calm blue waters with lush green hills and distant mountains under a partly cloudy sky. A small island or peninsula appears in the foreground, while a faint light glows on the far shore. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and soft focus. This archival clip offers authentic period footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 124541643

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: 1968 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: Albany, New York, 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

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s home-movie requests needing quiet lake, hill, and shoreline scenery for documentary, museum, educational, or memory-based edits.
Period detail: The footage may show a mid-century recreational lake view, with visible clues limited to 8mm color stock, soft focus, handheld framing, wooded hills, open water, and distant shoreline structures.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, panning or reframing from a high vantage point toward water, hills, and a small island or peninsula without visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, wooded hills, distant shoreline buildings, a low island or peninsula, partly cloudy sky, dark frame edges, and a vertical film gate or scan divider.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, blue-green color shift, visible grain, dust specks, uneven exposure, and dark gate edges that support its archival home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, transition, establishing cutaway, or reflective memory beat between family, travel, or regional landscape scenes.
Historical context: The view documents a leisure landscape as seen by an amateur camera, emphasizing water, wooded terrain, and distant settlement rather than identifiable events or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable signs are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any distant property considerations should be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1968 8mm lake landscape, vintage home movie wooded hills, 1960s lake shoreline, amateur film water and mountains, and archival scenic cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with confirmed same-location or same-year material, and finally with related 1960s lake, mountain, and travel scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 8mm home-movie frame showing blue lake water, wooded hills, distant shoreline, and a low island or peninsula under a partly cloudy sky. — Lake and wooded hills seen from an elevated vantage point, with a low landform across the water.

1968 8mm frame of a broad lake and forested hills, with distant shoreline structures and a dark vertical gate or scan divider through the view. — Broad lake view with wooded hills and distant shoreline settlement visible across the water.

1968 8mm home-movie frame showing a wooded hillside, blue lake water, low marshy shoreline, and a small cluster of distant light-toned structures. — Wooded hillside rises beyond the lake, with shoreline details and small distant structures at left.

1968 8mm frame of a wooded slope and lake edge, with a low strip of shoreline vegetation and visible film grain and gate shadow. — Lake edge and wooded slope fill the frame, with shoreline vegetation across the lower view.

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