Sauk Centre Minnesota-1966: Autumn Trees Under a Stormy Sky

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

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Autumn Trees Under a Stormy Sky — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1966, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic autumn landscape from a moving vehicle in Sauk Centre, Minnesota. The view pans across a field of golden and orange trees under a dark, stormy sky with visible cloud formations. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a natural, unfiltered quality, offering a nostalgic glimpse of rural Midwest scenery during a moody, overcast day.

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: 125317417

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: Useful for 1960s Midwest documentary edits needing a brief rural autumn landscape, stormy weather cutaway, or home-movie transition shot.
Period detail: The frames show color 8mm-era home-movie landscape footage, with rural fields and autumn trees consistent with the 1966 Sauk Centre metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The moving-vehicle viewpoint gives the clip an unstaged travel-record feel, observing weather and seasonal color rather than a planned scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark blue-gray sky, layered clouds, autumn tree lines, dry field grasses, distant shrubs, and black film-frame edges.
Film character: The clip has pronounced 8mm grain, soft focus, color shifts, gate edges, and slight exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a storm-arrival insert, rural road-trip transition, seasonal establishing cutaway, or quiet memory beat.
Historical context: The footage visually situates a rural Minnesota landscape in autumn, with no visible people, vehicles, signage, or identifiable structures in these frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location confirmation, and any broader reel context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Search match phrases include 1960s 8mm Minnesota autumn trees, stormy rural sky home movie, Sauk Centre landscape footage, and Midwest fall field cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then Sauk Centre or 1966 Minnesota material, then broader rural autumn weather and landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1966 Sauk Centre 8mm frame showing a dark blue-gray sky over distant autumn trees and low rural field. — Storm clouds hang above a distant autumn tree line and field.

1966 Sauk Centre landscape frame with autumn trees under a stormy blue-gray sky and visible 8mm gate edges. — Autumn foliage fills the horizon beneath a moody sky.

1966 Sauk Centre 8mm view of golden and orange autumn trees across dry grasses beneath a clouded sky. — Golden trees and dry grasses pass below a storm-colored sky.

1966 Sauk Centre frame showing autumn trees and pale grasses under a dark, overcast sky from a moving viewpoint. — A rural autumn tree line appears below a dark overcast sky.

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