Albany New York-1968: Green Hillside Overlooks Lake

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

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Green Hillside Overlooks Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a serene landscape from Albany, New York. The clip opens on a dark, silhouetted hillside under a deep blue sky, then gradually reveals a lush, green treed hillside overlooking a calm lake. The natural scene unfolds with a quiet, peaceful atmosphere, showcasing the region's classic 1960s vintage scenery. The footage exhibits authentic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, offering a nostalgic glimpse into mid-century nature footage.

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: 124541682

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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1968 8mm landscape footage for productions needing a quiet Northeast lake-and-hillside cutaway or period nature insert.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1960s home-movie travel scenery, with no visible people, vehicles, signage, or dated built details in the sampled frames.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on a distant hillside and lake from an informal visitor viewpoint, giving the scene an unstaged home-movie record of place and weather.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue sky, wooded hillside, rocky slopes, lake water, shoreline vegetation, distant structures, and dark film-gate edges.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, blue-shifted color, slight exposure variation, and contact-frame borders that signal original physical film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm establishing insert, memory beat, regional transition, or visual pause between more populated 1960s home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The footage preserves a mid-century recreational landscape view rather than documenting a specific public event, landmark, or named site.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private-property details are visible, but location and copyright status should still be checked through the source record.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1968 8mm lake hillside, vintage home movie wooded shoreline, 1960s Northeast landscape, and archival lake cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with Albany-labeled 1968 material, then with other quiet wooded lake landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 8mm frame showing a distant wooded hillside under blue sky, with heavy dark film-gate borders and no people visible. — A silhouetted hillside sits beneath a blue sky in the opening frame.

A distant wooded hillside rises above a calm lake edge in this 1968 8mm home-movie frame, with no people or signage visible. — The view opens to a wooded slope and a narrow band of lake at the base.

A green treed hillside overlooks lake water and low shoreline vegetation in a softly focused 1968 8mm landscape frame. — Lake water and shoreline vegetation fill the lower frame beneath the green hillside.

The final frame shows calm lake water, a grassy shoreline, and a wooded hillside with small distant light structures, captured on 1968 8mm film. — A wider lake view shows shoreline greenery below the wooded hillside.

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