Ithaca New York-1979: Sunset In The Distance Hiding Behind Clouds With Mountains

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

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Sunset In The Distance Hiding Behind Clouds With Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a serene sunset over a distant horizon, likely in Ithaca, New York. The sun glows warmly as it dips below the clouds, casting a golden band across the sky. Deep blue tones dominate the frame, with a silhouetted landscape and a body of water in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, evoking a nostalgic, timeless atmosphere. This archival clip 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: 125225855

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: 1970s 8mm home-movie sunset footage useful for documentary inserts, memory sequences, and quiet nature transitions tied to upstate New York archival material.
Period detail: The frames may show a late-1970s amateur-film view, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, signage, or landmarks to independently date the scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie perspective, lingering on a distant sunset across water or open land rather than documenting a planned event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a low glowing sun, dark cloud band, deep blue sky, distant ridge line, silhouetted shoreline, and dark foreground water or field.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows strong blue color shift, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet framing that give the scene physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a contemplative cutaway, end-of-day transition, reflective memory beat, or atmospheric insert between place-based scenes.
Historical context: The scene reflects a personal outdoor observation rather than a public event, with the visual context limited to sky, horizon, water or land, and distant silhouettes.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or identifiable private property are visible, but copyright, location verification, and contextual use should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1979 8mm sunset, Ithaca New York home movie landscape, vintage blue-hour horizon, and Super 8 sunset over water.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Ithaca or 1979 New York footage, then with broader sunset, lake, mountain, or memory-themed material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 8mm frame likely near Ithaca, New York, showing a warm sunset band behind clouds above a dark horizon and blue foreground. — A low sunset glows through clouds above a dark horizon in blue-toned 8mm footage.

1979 8mm frame likely near Ithaca, New York, with a narrow orange sunset line beneath clouds and dark land silhouettes. — A thin orange sunset line sits below heavy clouds and above a dark distant shoreline.

1979 8mm frame likely near Ithaca, New York, showing a soft sunset glow near the horizon above dark blue water or land. — The sun glows softly at the horizon, with blue film tones and a dark landscape below.

1979 8mm frame likely near Ithaca, New York, showing sunset light beneath clouds, a dark horizon, and a hillside silhouette at right. — Sunset light slips under a cloud bank, with a dark hillside silhouette on the right.

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