New York City-1958: Rocky Hillside With Evergreen Trees And Cables

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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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Rocky Hillside With Evergreen Trees And Cables — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a rugged natural landscape viewed through a window frame. The sequence begins with a distant hillside covered in evergreen trees under a pale sky, then pans to reveal large, weathered boulders and rocky outcrops. A pair of cables runs diagonally across the frame, suggesting a utility line or cable car system. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, film grain, and a slightly faded color palette with prominent blue and purple tones. This authentic slice of mid-century Americana evokes nostalgia and is ideal for historical documentaries, retro-themed projects, or archival storytelling.

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: 124558683

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s 8mm landscape footage for editors needing a brief rocky hillside, evergreen, or cable-line cutaway from a New York City-labeled home movie reel.
Period detail: The scene may show a mid-century visitor view through a dark window or vehicle frame, with soft 8mm color and no visible people, signage, or dated objects beyond the 1958 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The framing feels like a casual passenger or visitor pan, lingering on wooded slopes and boulders rather than staging a formal scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include evergreen-covered hills, pale sky, large weathered boulders, scrub vegetation, diagonal cables, and dark window or film-frame dividers.
Film character: The clip carries a soft 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, slight focus drift, faded blue-purple color, and handheld framing through dark borders.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short nature insert, travel transition, memory beat, or geographic cutaway within a 1950s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a mid-century leisure or travel view of rocky terrain and trees, though the frames do not identify a specific landmark or activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but location and property context should still be checked separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1958 8mm rocky hillside, New York City home movie landscape, evergreen trees and boulders, and vintage cable-line scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1958 New York City-labeled exterior footage, then broader rocky landscape or travel-view material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm home-movie view of a wooded hillside under a pale sky, seen through dark vertical borders. — A distant evergreen-covered slope appears beyond a dark frame edge.

1958 New York City-labeled 8mm frame showing large weathered boulders and rocky outcrops in soft color. — Weathered boulders dominate the rocky hillside view.

1958 8mm home-movie frame of a rocky hillside with boulders, low shrubs, and a diagonal cable crossing above. — A diagonal cable crosses above clustered boulders and shrubs.

1958 New York City-labeled 8mm view of stacked boulders and shrubs with dark diagonal cables across the scene. — Cables cut diagonally across a rocky hillside of stacked boulders.

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