Sauk Centre Minnesota-1966: Green Fields And Red Fall Trees On A Sunny Day

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Year1966
Decade1960s
LocationSauk Centre, Minnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1966 Sauk Centre Minnesota

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Green Fields And Red Fall Trees On A Sunny Day — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures a serene rural landscape in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. The clip opens with a long dirt road stretching through golden fields and scattered farmhouses under a bright blue sky. As the camera moves, vibrant red and orange autumn trees come into focus, their brilliant fall colors contrasting with the green fields and white clouds. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly shaky handheld perspective, evoking a nostalgic, sun-drenched day in the Midwest countryside.

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: 125317379

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 1027 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: fall coloring,duluth and sauke centre, near hamel schiebe tree, threshing bee, dresser wis,fall
Reel-level year note: 1966
Reel-level location note: duluth,sauke center,minnesota
Date: 1966 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: Sauk Centre, 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: 1960s 8mm rural Minnesota landscape footage suited for documentary inserts, regional history sequences, seasonal transitions, or Midwest countryside establishing shots.
Period detail: The clip may show mid-1960s rural roadways, open fields, scattered farm buildings, and fall foliage, with era context supported by the 1966 home-movie metadata rather than visible dated signage.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld framing has an unstaged home-movie feel, moving from a distant country road and fields toward autumn trees as a casual family or traveler viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a straight rural road, green and golden fields, distant farm structures, tree lines, red-orange fall foliage, blue sky, and scattered clouds.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, color shift, edge darkness, and slight handheld instability that read as physical-film texture from a home-movie reel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, seasonal cutaway, rural transition, or reflective memory beat between family, travel, or regional history scenes.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for rural central Minnesota scenery in the 1960s, emphasizing agricultural land, open roads, and autumn color without showing identifiable people.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location, and any distant property depiction should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1966 8mm Minnesota countryside, Sauk Centre rural road, Midwest fall trees home movie, and vintage farm fields under blue sky.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Sauk Centre or 1966 Minnesota footage, then broader rural Midwest autumn landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 Sauk Centre, Minnesota 8mm frame showing a long rural road, open fields, distant tree line, and small farm structures under bright sky. — A country road stretches through open fields toward distant trees and farm buildings.

1966 Sauk Centre, Minnesota view of a straight country road crossing green and golden fields toward distant houses and wooded horizon. — The road continues through patchwork fields with a wooded horizon in the distance.

1966 Sauk Centre, Minnesota 8mm frame with open fields, a pale rural road, distant farm buildings, and autumn-toned trees at the horizon. — A handheld view holds on the rural road, fields, and distant farm structures.

1966 Sauk Centre, Minnesota frame showing a red-orange fall tree, nearby green foliage, blue sky, and white clouds in a sunny rural setting. — A red-orange autumn tree fills the frame against blue sky and white clouds.

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