Washington Island Wisconsin-1964: Birch Trees Frame Calm Blue Lake Under Moving Clouds

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationWashington Island, Wisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1964 Wisconsin

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Birch Trees Frame Calm Blue Lake Under Moving Clouds — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside scene on Washington Island, Wisconsin. Two birch trees frame the view of a calm blue lake under a dramatic sky filled with moving clouds. The footage shows gentle breezes rustling the tree branches and the natural movement of clouds across the horizon. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and subtle imperfections, evoking a nostalgic, peaceful atmosphere of a summer day in the 1960s. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 125309942

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: Washington Island, Wisconsin, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1960s home-movie requests needing a quiet Wisconsin lakeshore weather insert, nature cutaway, or midcentury vacation atmosphere.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1964 visitor-shot view of Washington Island, with birch trunks, open lake water, shoreline, and a broad cloud bank as the main period clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the unstaged value of a home-movie pause on weather and scenery rather than people or planned action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include birch trees, blue lake water, distant shoreline, moving cloud cover, leafy branches, dark frame edges, and film gate borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color shift, exposure variation, dust specks, and slight handheld framing as physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief transition, weather cutaway, reflective memory beat, or location-establishing nature insert.
Historical context: The scene reflects leisure-era home filming of landscape and weather, with no visible people, vehicles, signage, or identifiable buildings in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and location identification should still be reviewed before reuse.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1960s 8mm Wisconsin lake footage, Washington Island home movie, birch trees by water, and vintage cloud movement over shoreline.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel Washington Island material, then other 1964 Wisconsin lake scenes, then broader vintage shoreline, weather, and summer nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1964 Washington Island lakeshore view with two birch trunks framing blue water, a low shoreline, and heavy clouds. — Birch trunks frame the lake and distant shore beneath a building cloud bank.

Washington Island lake view with a large cloud bank over blue water and green leaves at the right edge. — Clouds move over the lake while shoreline and foliage sit at the edge of frame.

1964 lakeshore frame showing broad clouds over Washington Island water with wind-touched foliage at right. — A broad cloud formation hangs over the lake as branches enter the foreground.

Washington Island home-movie frame of cloud cover over blue lake water, with leaves and film specks visible. — Cloud cover and lake water dominate the final frame, with foliage along the right edge.

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