Ithaca New York-1979: Sky Mountains And Trees

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

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Sky Mountains And Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a serene rural landscape in Ithaca, New York. The clip features a rolling tree-covered mountain under a vast, overcast sky with a subtle purple hue. A few scattered trees and a distant white structure appear in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, quiet moment in the countryside. This authentic archival film is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 125225725

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: 1979 Ithaca-area 8mm landscape footage suited to documentary cutaways, regional memory sequences, or rural Northeast atmosphere.
Period detail: The frames may show late-1970s home-movie color, with no visible vehicles, signs, people, or dated objects beyond the supplied 1979 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie pause on distant hills and sky, likely filmed as a quiet scenic view rather than a planned travel shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an overcast sky, wooded hillside, dark tree line, lake or open water edge, a small pale structure, and film frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm texture with soft focus, visible grain, muted purple-blue color cast, exposure variation, and handheld framing across the hillside.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, reflective transition, seasonal cutaway, or memory beat between more active home-movie scenes.
Historical context: As visual context, the footage records a quiet rural landscape near Ithaca without showing identifiable people, commerce, or public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright status and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed for intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1979 8mm Ithaca landscape, rural New York hills, overcast sky home movie, wooded mountain view, and vintage countryside cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1979 Ithaca or New York landscape material, then broader rural 1970s nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 8mm home-movie view near Ithaca, New York, showing an overcast sky, wooded hillside, and a dim foreground edge. — A broad cloudy sky sits above a wooded hillside in a rural Ithaca-area landscape.

1979 Ithaca-area 8mm frame with a sloping tree-covered hill, cloudy sky, and a distant pale structure near the shoreline. — A distant pale structure appears at the base of the wooded hill beneath the cloudy sky.

Soft 8mm frame from the 1979 Ithaca landscape clip showing a hillside, bare tree silhouette, cloudy sky, and small bright structure. — The camera frames the wooded slope more closely, with a bare tree shape near the crest.

1979 8mm landscape view near Ithaca, New York, with a dark hillside, muted cloudy sky, and distant small structure. — The final frame holds on the hillside and sky, with a small structure at the lower right.

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