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California USA-1971: Grass Field Surrounded by Trees and Pond

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  • Year1971
  • Decade1970s
  • LocationCalifornia, United States
  • Duration5s
  • Price$149 USD
  • Collection1971 · California, United States
  • StatusDirect License

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Grass Field Surrounded by Trees and Pond — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a serene grassy field in California, surrounded by mature trees and a small pond in the distance. The camera pans slowly across the landscape, revealing a quiet rural setting with a mix of deciduous trees and a few conical evergreens. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, natural film grain, and a slightly faded color palette with prominent purple and green hues. This authentic slice of Americana evokes a sense of peaceful nostalgia and is ideal for historical documentaries, editorial content, or retro-themed projects.

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
125064266

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 1758 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label
III-02,sacto state
Reel-level year note
1971
Reel-level location note
california,sacramento
Date
1971 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
California, 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 1970s California nature or rural-landscape requests needing quiet home-movie pond, grass field, and tree coverage for documentary or editorial context.
Period detail
The clip may show a 1971 California outdoor setting, with visible cues limited to open grass, mature trees, a small pond, soft color, and handheld 8mm framing.
Home-movie behavior
The footage has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, observing a calm landscape from a fixed or gently panning position rather than presenting a formal scenic survey.
What appears in frame
Visible elements include a sloping grass field, mature deciduous trees, conical evergreens, a small pond, fence posts, distant tree lines, and soft sky.
Film character
The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, muted green and purple color shifts, uneven exposure, and slight frame instability consistent with physical home-movie film.
Edit role
An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, rural transition, memory beat, or establishing insert for a 1970s outdoor California setting.
Historical context
The scene reflects a private, everyday outdoor view rather than a named landmark, offering visual context for leisure, rural property, or natural surroundings in the early 1970s.
Research note
No people, faces, brands, or logos are visible, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match
Matches searches for 1971 California 8mm nature footage, vintage home movie grass field, pond and trees, rural landscape cutaway, and 1970s outdoor Americana.
Archive pairing path
Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1971 California outdoor clips, then broader vintage home-movie nature, pond, field, and tree footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 California home-movie frame showing a sloping grassy field bordered by mature trees and a small evergreen.

A quiet grass field is framed by mature trees and a small conical evergreen.

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1971 California 8mm frame of open grass, trees, fence posts, and a central dark film-edge band from the scan.

Open grass and trees appear beyond a dark vertical film-edge band.

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1971 California landscape frame showing a small pond, reflected trees, grass, and a young tree in soft 8mm color.

A small pond reflects nearby trees at the edge of the grassy field.

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1971 California home-movie frame looking across a grassy slope toward a pond, tree line, evergreen, and fence posts.

The view opens toward a pond beyond the grassy slope and tree line.

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