Ithaca New York-1979: Traveling Past A Very Dense Forested Area On A Train Or A

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

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Traveling Past A Very Dense Forested Area On A Train Or A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a journey through a dense forested area near Ithaca, New York. The footage shows a view from a moving vehicle, likely a train, with a plowed field in the foreground and a hillside covered in autumn-colored trees. The colors are muted with a distinct purple and green tint, characteristic of aged Super 8 film. The camera remains steady, offering a nostalgic glimpse of rural scenery from a bygone era.

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: 125225742

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s rural travel footage for editors needing an exterior landscape cutaway, train-window view, or autumn countryside transition near Ithaca, New York.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1970s home-movie travel through rural New York, with no visible vehicles, signage, buildings, or fashion cues beyond the dated 8mm source.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the unstaged passenger viewpoint, observing fields and wooded hills from a moving vehicle rather than presenting a composed scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a plowed field, rolling hillside, dense autumn trees, pale sky, soft window-like framing, motion blur, and aged film color shift.
Film character: The 8mm scan has visible grain, muted exposure, soft focus, and a purple-green color cast that give the landscape a home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, rural transition, memory beat, or visual bridge between location-based narration and broader regional context.
Historical context: The footage documents a rural landscape view around Ithaca in 1979 without identifiable people, structures, businesses, or public events in the visible frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still confirm copyright permissions and avoid treating the location as landmark-verified.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1979 8mm Ithaca countryside, New York autumn forest from train, rural travel home movie, and vintage wooded hillside footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material from the same trip, then other 1979 Ithaca or upstate New York scenes, then broader 1970s rural travel landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 8mm view near Ithaca showing a plowed field and autumn-colored wooded hillside from a moving vehicle. — A rural field and tree-covered hillside pass by in soft, muted color.

Dense wooded hillside near Ithaca appears through a moving 8mm view, with muted greens, reds, and purples. — The camera passes a dense forested slope with early autumn color.

A moving 8mm view near Ithaca shows blurred forest canopy and hillside vegetation in aged purple-green tones. — Motion blur softens the forested hillside as the vehicle continues past.

The final frame shows dense New York woodland in autumn tones, partially divided by a dark vertical film or window edge. — A wooded slope continues past, divided by a dark vertical edge in the frame.

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