Ithaca New York-1979: Mountain Range With Trees And Homes

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationIthaca, New York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Mountain Range With Trees And Homes — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a serene mountain range in Ithaca, New York, blanketed in dense forest. The rolling hills display early autumn colors with patches of green, yellow, and red foliage. A white house with blue shutters appears briefly in one frame, nestled among trees. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and subtle camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, quiet rural atmosphere. This authentic slice of Americana offers a timeless glimpse into late 1970s countryside life.

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: 125225722

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1979 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Ithaca, New York, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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 rural Northeastern landscape requests needing quiet 8mm mountain, forest, and countryside establishing footage.
Period detail: The 1979 metadata is supported, while visible clues are limited to wooded hills, open fields, and a modest house that may show late-1970s rural residential surroundings.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, panning or holding casually on hills, trees, fields, and a nearby home rather than documenting a formal event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wooded ridgelines, pale overcast sky, autumn foliage, open grass or field, tree silhouettes, and a white house with blue shutters.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild color fading, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as physical-film archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, memory transition, seasonal cutaway, or quiet geographic bridge for Ithaca-area material.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for a late-1970s home-movie view of wooded countryside near Ithaca without identifying a specific neighborhood or landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are evident, but copyright, location, and any property-related considerations should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1979 8mm Ithaca New York hills, vintage home movie forest landscape, rural autumn trees, and 1970s countryside cutaway footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Ithaca or 1979 rural New York material, then broader vintage wooded landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 8mm home-movie view near Ithaca showing a wooded ridge, muted autumn trees, and open foreground land under overcast sky. — Wooded hill and rural foreground seen from a home-movie vantage point.

1979 Ithaca-area 8mm frame of a forested hillside with autumn color and a foreground tree under a light overcast sky. — Forested ridge with a foreground tree and subdued autumn colors.

1979 Ithaca-area home-movie frame showing a white house with blue shutters near trees below a wooded hill. — A white rural house appears briefly at the base of the wooded hillside.

1979 Ithaca-area 8mm view of a sloping wooded ridge beyond open ground, with bare trees silhouetted under cloudy sky. — Sloping wooded ridge and open ground close the short rural landscape shot.

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