Greenwood Lake New York-1964: Lake with Trees and Distant Mountains

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationGreenwood Lake, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 New York

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Lake with Trees and Distant Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside landscape at Greenwood Lake, New York. The view, framed by a window, shows a calm lake bordered by lush green trees with distant mountains under a soft sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: a blue-tinted color palette, film grain, and subtle scratches, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century American summer memory. The camera remains steady, offering a peaceful, contemplative scene ideal for historical or editorial projects.

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: 124937270

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 1062 · 8mm · 6″ reel
Original reel label: greenwood lake summer
Reel-level year note: 1964
Reel-level location note: greenwood lake
Date: 1964 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: Greenwood Lake, 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: 1960s 8mm lake scenery for documentary inserts, archival transitions, or quiet establishing shots of a mid-century New York lakeside setting.
Period detail: The frames show a blue-tinted 8mm view of lake, trees, and low mountains; the 1964 date and Greenwood Lake location are supported by supplied metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie gaze from a fixed viewpoint, watching the lake through a dark window or film-frame edge without people or action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water, distant wooded mountains, shoreline trees, grassy foreground, pale sky, dark vertical borders, film grain, and light surface scratches.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, bluish cast, moderate grain, faint scratches, and steady framing that give the landscape a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet scenic cutaway, memory beat, location transition, or pause between family or travel sequences from the same period.
Historical context: The scene reflects recreational lake viewing in a mid-century home-movie context, with landscape rather than identifiable people, buildings, or events carrying the visual record.
Research note: No people, brands, or obvious private interiors are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any property or location permissions separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1964 Greenwood Lake 8mm footage, vintage New York lake landscape, home movie mountain lake view, and 1960s scenic water cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1964 Greenwood Lake material, then with 1960s lake, mountain, travel, and home-movie scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Greenwood Lake home-movie frame showing calm water, wooded hills, shoreline trees, pale sky, and dark film or window borders. — A steady lakeside view looks across water toward wooded mountains, with trees breaking the foreground.

A blue-tinted 8mm view across Greenwood Lake toward a low mountain ridge, with trees at the right and center foreground. — The lake and mountain ridge remain steady while nearby trees frame the view.

1964 Greenwood Lake scenery with blue hills across the water, a broad tree silhouette in front, and visible 8mm grain and scratches. — A foreground tree rises against the lake and distant wooded hills.

A later frame from the Greenwood Lake clip shows trees along the water with blue mountain slopes beyond and a dark vertical border at left. — Trees along the shoreline sit in front of the lake and hazy mountain backdrop.

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