New York City-1958: A Coastal Landscape With Mountains And Power Lines

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationNew York City, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 New York City

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A Coastal Landscape With Mountains And Power Lines — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a serene coastal landscape viewed through a window frame. Rolling hills and distant mountains rise above a calm body of water, with utility poles and power lines stretching across the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, a cool blue color cast, and subtle camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American travel memory. The scene suggests a quiet, rural or suburban shoreline, possibly near a bay or large lake, with a sense of peaceful isolation.

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: 124558236

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 1256 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: #8
Reel-level year note: 1957-1958
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1958 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: New York City, 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: Supports 1950s archive requests for quiet coastal travel scenery, rural shoreline cutaways, and mid-century home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: Utility poles, overhead lines, and the 8mm color travel-film view may show mid-century roadside or window-framed coastal observation.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler perspective, looking past a dark window or vehicle frame toward water, hills, and distant mountains.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, distant mountain silhouettes, scrub-covered hills, utility poles, power lines, dark frame edges, and pale sky.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm grain, cool blue color shift, slight exposure variation, and gentle handheld or vehicle-borne movement.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief scenic insert, travel transition, memory beat, or quiet establishing cutaway within a 1950s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The view reflects roadside or window-side leisure travel, with electrical infrastructure crossing a sparsely built coastal landscape.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but location identity and any property or copyright questions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1950s 8mm coastal landscape, home movie water and mountains, power lines by shoreline, or vintage travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent scenes from the same reel, then with 1958 New York-area travel footage, then with coastal water, hills, and roadside infrastructure themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm view of calm water, distant hills, and foreground power lines from a framed roadside or window perspective. — Calm water and low hills appear beyond utility poles and dark vertical frame edges.

1958 8mm coastal landscape with water, low mountains, scrubby hills, and utility poles crossing the foreground. — A framed view shows shoreline hills, calm water, and overhead utility lines.

1958 8mm frame showing a hazy coastal headland across calm water, with roadside poles and sloping scrubland in front. — A distant headland sits across the water behind roadside poles and a sloping foreground.

1958 8mm coastal view of a distant island or headland, calm water, foreground hills, and thin power lines. — The shot ends on a hazy island or headland beyond water, crossed by faint overhead lines.

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