Minnesota USA-1965: Handwritten Date Card and Overcast Water Landscape

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Year1965
Decade1960s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1965 Minnesota

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Handwritten Date Card and Overcast Water Landscape — Clip Details

A close-up of a handwritten date card reading 'APRIL 18, 1965' on a vintage 8mm film frame, followed by a grainy, overcast landscape shot of a wide body of water with distant landforms. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color fading, and natural film imperfections, capturing a quiet, contemplative moment from a personal home movie. The scene evokes a sense of nostalgia and historical authenticity from mid-1960s America.

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: 125312223

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 1030 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: itasca park,bayfield,duluth,winter carnival,water tower bicycles
Reel-level year note: 1965
Reel-level location note: itasca park,bayfield,duluth,minnesota
Date: 1965 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Minnesota, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 U.S. home-movie date-card inserts, Minnesota regional context, or quiet water-landscape cutaways in documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The handwritten card reading April 18, 1965 and the 8mm home-movie frame support a mid-1960s setting, while the water view appears overcast and unidentified.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie quality, moving from a personal date marker to a simple observed landscape with no visible people or performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the handwritten date card, rounded film-frame edges, overcast sky, broad water surface, distant shoreline, and dark foreground vegetation.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm grain, muted color, slight fading, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame borders that emphasize its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a date-establishing insert, a quiet transition, or a memory beat before broader Minnesota or 1960s family-footage material.
Historical context: The frames document a personal filming practice in which a handwritten card dates a modest outdoor landscape rather than a public event or recognizable landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and location identification should be checked separately before final use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1965 Minnesota 8mm home movie date card, April 18 1965 water landscape, vintage home movie lake view, and overcast shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Minnesota 1965 material, and then with other dated home-movie landscapes or water cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1965 8mm frame with a handwritten April 18 date card above a muted, distant water landscape in Minnesota context. — Handwritten April 18, 1965 date card over an overcast water landscape.

Handwritten April 18, 1965 date card fills the upper frame, with a subdued water view below in 8mm home-movie footage. — Date card remains prominent above the grainy water and shoreline view.

Muted 8mm view of a broad water surface under gray sky, with a low distant shoreline and dark foreground vegetation. — Soft, overcast water landscape after the date-card frame.

Overcast Minnesota-context water landscape in soft 8mm footage, showing distant landforms and dark foreground vegetation. — Distant shoreline and water surface seen through muted 8mm color and grain.

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