Ithaca New York-1979: A Beautiful Morning Sunrise

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

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A Beautiful Morning Sunrise — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a serene sunrise over a distant horizon, likely in Ithaca, New York. The sun appears as a glowing, elongated orb, casting a vibrant band of yellow and orange across the darkening sky. Silhouetted power lines stretch horizontally across the frame, adding a subtle human element to the natural scene. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a strong sense of nostalgia and quiet contemplation. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or any project seeking authentic 1970s home movie aesthetics.

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: 125225831

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 archival requests needing a brief natural sunrise insert, atmospheric transition, or quiet establishing moment for upstate New York home-movie material.
Period detail: The frames show a low sun, dark horizon, faint utility lines, and saturated 8mm color that supports a late-1970s home-movie look without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged home-movie observation, holding on a sunrise from a fixed outdoor viewpoint rather than presenting a planned scenic production shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a glowing sun near the horizon, orange cloud band, dark ridgeline, faint water or lowland strip, utility wires, heavy shadows, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, dense shadow detail, warm color saturation, and slight exposure bloom around the sun as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a dawn transition, reflective cutaway, chapter opener, or memory beat between scenes involving landscape, morning, or 1970s home life.
Historical context: The scene suggests a domestic or roadside view of sunrise in the Ithaca area, showing how a home-movie camera recorded ordinary landscape and light rather than public events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still evaluate copyright, location context, and any property implications for the intended use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1979 8mm sunrise footage, Ithaca New York home movie sky, 1970s dawn landscape, vintage horizon cutaway, and archival morning nature shot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1979 Ithaca or upstate New York material, and then with broader sunrise, sky, or quiet landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 8mm home-movie frame from the Ithaca, New York area showing a glowing sunrise behind a dark horizon and thin utility lines. — Sunrise glows through a cloud band above a dark distant horizon.

1979 8mm frame likely from Ithaca, New York, with the sun low under a dark cloud band above a silhouetted landscape. — Low morning sun spreads yellow-orange light across the horizon.

1979 8mm home-movie frame showing an elongated sunrise over the dark Ithaca-area horizon with saturated orange and yellow light. — The sun blooms into an elongated band just above the ridge.

1979 8mm frame likely near Ithaca, New York, with a low sunrise at frame right, dark horizon, and blue-purple shadow in the sky. — A final view places the bright dawn glow low on the right horizon.

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