New York City-1958: The Mountains Are Beautiful To See And The Peoples Are

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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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The Mountains Are Beautiful To See And The Peoples Are — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures sweeping aerial views of a mountainous landscape, likely filmed from a moving vehicle or aircraft. The footage shows rolling hills, dense forests, and winding roads under a hazy sky, with visible film grain and slight motion blur characteristic of Super 8 home movies. The sequence offers a nostalgic glimpse of natural scenery, evoking mid-century Americana and personal travel memories. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring 1950s travel and landscape.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Aerial
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 124558711

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 home-movie material for productions needing brief travel landscape views and a lakeside recreation cutaway.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century outdoor travel footage, with distant swimmers on a dock and hazy aerial or elevated views of wooded hills and water.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a casual traveler perspective, shifting from passing landscape views to an unstaged lakeside moment with people gathered on a dock.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wooded hills, a blurred evergreen, hazy water or valley views, distant aircraft-like specks, a lake, a dock, and small human figures.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, gate edges, muted color, exposure variation, and motion blur consistent with handheld home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short memory beat, travel transition, landscape insert, or recreational cutaway within a broader 1950s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The imagery places leisure and travel in a natural setting, but the exact landscape and lakeside location are not identifiable from the frames alone.
Research note: Distant people are visible in one frame, so copyright, likeness, and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1958 8mm mountain landscape, vintage home movie lake dock, mid-century travel scenery, and 1950s outdoor recreation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with confirmed 1958 New York material, and then with broader mountain, lake, or travel home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 8mm home-movie frame with a hazy, soft-focus view of wooded hills or mountains, partly obscured by film frame borders. — Hazy wooded hills appear in a soft, grainy travel view.

Soft 8mm frame showing an evergreen tree passing in front of a pale wooded slope, with motion blur and grain. — An evergreen crosses a pale wooded slope in a blurred landscape shot.

1958 8mm travel frame with a hazy elevated view over a broad landscape or water, with two small aircraft-like specks visible in the sky. — A hazy elevated landscape view includes two small specks overhead.

Distant people stand on a low dock in a lake, with swimmers in the water and a dark tree line in the background. — People gather on a lakeside dock while others swim nearby.

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