Minnesota USA-1964: Zoomed Old Road Highway Street Telephone Lines Trees Bush

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Zoomed Old Road Highway Street Telephone Lines Trees Bush — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a quiet rural landscape from a moving vehicle. A wooden telephone pole stands prominently in the foreground, with power lines stretching across the frame. The view, framed by a dark window edge, shows a paved road, grassy fields, scattered trees, and distant buildings under a hazy gray sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color fading, evoking a nostalgic mid-century Americana feel. This authentic archival clip is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 125308000

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: 1964 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: Minnesota, 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 1960s rural Minnesota roadscape requests needing authentic home-movie footage of utility lines, fields, and roadside travel views.
Period detail: The wooden telephone pole, open fields, two-lane road, and faded 8mm color may show a mid-1960s rural roadside environment.
Home-movie behavior: The moving-vehicle viewpoint gives the clip an unstaged travel-record quality, as if filmed through a side window during a quiet drive.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden utility pole, overhead lines, paved roadside, grassy fields, leafless trees, distant buildings, and hazy sky.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, mild color fading, window-edge framing, and slight motion blur from handheld filming in a moving car.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a rural travel cutaway, transitional road insert, or brief memory beat for mid-century American landscape material.
Historical context: The clip documents a quiet roadside landscape where telephone infrastructure and open farmland frame everyday rural mobility.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1964 Minnesota 8mm rural highway footage, telephone pole road view, vintage home movie fields, and mid-century roadside landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel shots, then other 1964 Minnesota exteriors, then broader rural road, utility line, and farmland themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Minnesota rural roadside view with a wooden telephone pole, overhead lines, fields, and distant trees seen from a vehicle. — A telephone pole and wires stand beside an open rural road and fields.

Rural Minnesota roadside in 1964 with a telephone pole, utility wires, fields, bare trees, and small distant buildings. — Utility lines cross a muted rural landscape with fields and distant structures.

A 1964 Minnesota roadside frame shows a utility pole and wires over open fields, trees, and a low distant horizon. — A roadside utility pole rises above fields and a distant tree line.

End frame of a 1964 Minnesota rural road view with a close utility pole, crossing wires, fields, trees, and small distant buildings. — The utility pole passes close to frame as fields and distant buildings recede behind it.

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