Minnesota USA-1964: Raccoon or Cat in Tree

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Raccoon or Cat in Tree — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1964: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a grainy, color-saturated nature scene. The clip opens on a dark, textured tree trunk with a small animal, possibly a raccoon or cat, climbing its branches. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing a grassy area with a wooden bench in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—high grain, faded colors, and a soft focus—evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of a 1960s family outing in the woods.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125309494

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: Supports 1960s documentary or educational requests needing brief Minnesota home-movie nature footage with an animal near trees and a park-like wooded setting.
Period detail: The 8mm color, heavy grain, soft focus, and 1964 metadata place the clip in a mid-1960s home-movie context, though no dated signage or landmarks are visible.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld framing and brief pan suggest an unstaged family or visitor observation of an animal in a wooded outdoor area.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark tree trunk, a small climbing animal, branches or bark texture, grassy ground, scattered trees, a bench-like structure, and overexposed film frames.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, saturated magenta-blue color shifts, soft focus, gate edges, and uneven exposure that read as original home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, outdoor memory beat, nature cutaway, or transition within a 1960s family-outing sequence.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual amateur filming of nature in a wooded public or private outdoor space, without visible people, signage, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but the animal identification and property context remain uncertain and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property issues.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1964 Minnesota 8mm animal in tree, vintage home movie woods, 1960s nature cutaway, and grainy amateur wildlife footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Minnesota 1964 outdoor scenes, then broader 1960s home-movie nature or family outing material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Minnesota 8mm frame showing a small animal, possibly a raccoon or cat, against a dark textured tree trunk. — A small animal appears against the bark of a tree in the opening frame.

Overexposed 8mm frame from the 1964 Minnesota clip, with dark gate edges and faint outdoor detail near the bottom. — The frame blows out to bright exposure during the brief camera movement.

1964 Minnesota 8mm view of a wooded grassy area with tree trunks and a bench-like structure in the background. — The camera shifts to a dim wooded clearing with a bench-like form beyond the grass.

Final 1964 Minnesota 8mm frame showing a shadowed grassy wooded area with a bench-like structure to the right. — The clip ends on a shadowed outdoor view with trees and a bench-like structure.

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