Alaska-1946: Tree Decorated For Halloween

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Year1946
Decade1940s
LocationAlaska, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1946 Alaska

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Tree Decorated For Halloween — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1946, this vintage home movie captures a bare-branched tree adorned with bright orange spheres, likely persimmons or decorative lights, against a dusky blue sky. The scene is viewed through a window frame, with suburban houses and evergreen trees visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, warm color saturation, and a nostalgic, quiet atmosphere, evoking a mid-century American neighborhood in late autumn or early winter.

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: 124550780

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 1178 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Original reel label: 2
Reel-level year note: 1946
Reel-level location note: alaska
Date: 1946 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: Alaska, 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: Useful for 1940s Alaska home-movie requests needing a quiet seasonal exterior, Halloween-adjacent detail, or mid-century neighborhood cutaway.
Period detail: The bare tree, orange round ornaments, modest houses, and 8mm color stock may show a late-autumn residential scene from the documented 1946 reel.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on a simple outdoor detail from a domestic viewpoint, preserving the kind of incidental seasonal observation common in home movies.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bare deciduous tree, orange spheres in its branches, blue sky, distant houses, evergreen trees, roadside ground, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip has soft 8mm focus, visible grain, saturated blues and oranges, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges that support its physical-film character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a seasonal insert, neighborhood transition, memory beat, or quiet visual pause within a 1940s family or Alaska sequence.
Historical context: The scene suggests domestic seasonal decoration or fruit-like color in a residential setting without showing people, signage, or a specific identifiable event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are visible or flagged, but copyright status and any property implications should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1946 Alaska 8mm home movie tree, vintage Halloween decoration, orange ornaments on bare tree, and 1940s residential exterior footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1946 Alaska home movies, then broader autumn decoration, residential exterior, and mid-century neighborhood material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1946 Alaska 8mm frame showing a bare tree with orange spheres in front of distant houses and evergreens under a blue sky. — Bare decorated tree seen against a residential background and blue sky.

1946 Alaska 8mm view of orange spheres on bare branches with houses and evergreens in the background. — Orange spheres stand out on bare branches near distant houses.

1946 Alaska 8mm frame showing the decorated bare tree lower in view, with a road or yard and houses behind it. — The camera view drops to include roadside ground below the decorated tree.

1946 Alaska 8mm frame of a bare tree with orange spheres, seen near roadside ground with houses and evergreens beyond. — Decorated tree centered in a quiet residential exterior view.

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