Minnesota USA-1961: Black Cat Walking Through Deep Snow

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1961 Minnesota

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Black Cat Walking Through Deep Snow — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie from Minnesota in 1961 captures a classic winter scene. A snow-covered classic American car, its roof blanketed in white, sits parked in a quiet neighborhood with bare trees in the background. The footage then shifts to a black and white cat walking through deep snow, its paws leaving tracks in the fresh powder. The grainy, nostalgic quality of the Super 8 film evokes a sense of quiet, everyday life in the 1960s. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorBlack & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125497675

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 1028 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: mother,sioux falls, pushmobile, duluth in winter, clarence
Reel-level year note: 1960-1961
Reel-level location note: duluth,minnesota
Date: 1961 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: 1960s Minnesota home-movie winter footage for productions needing a quiet domestic cutaway of deep snow, a parked car, and a cat outdoors.
Period detail: The older rounded automobile, 8mm format, and 1961 metadata support an early-1960s setting, while the snowy yard and bare trees indicate winter conditions.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel, observing a neighborhood winter scene and a cat moving slowly through deep snow at close range.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a snow-covered older car, deep snowbanks, bare trees, a post or pole, a black-and-white cat, paw tracks, and soft winter light.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture with visible grain, soft focus, muted color, slight exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges that suit archival use.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter insert, domestic memory beat, animal cutaway, or transition between broader Minnesota or 1960s home-life scenes.
Historical context: The clip reflects ordinary residential winter conditions, using a household perspective rather than presenting a public event or identifiable landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, property context, and any collection-specific permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1961 Minnesota 8mm winter home movie, cat walking in deep snow, snowy vintage car, and 1960s domestic winter footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Minnesota 1961 winter material, then broader 1960s home-movie scenes of snow, pets, and cars.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Minnesota home-movie frame showing an older car partly buried under snow, with bare trees and deep snow in the background. — A snow-covered older car sits parked outdoors in a quiet winter setting.

Side view of a snow-covered older car in a 1961 Minnesota winter scene, with deep snow and leafless trees behind it. — The car remains parked under a thick layer of snow.

A black-and-white cat stands in deep Minnesota snow in this 1961 home-movie frame, with a post and faint tracks visible nearby. — A black-and-white cat pauses in the deep snow.

The cat moves through deep snow in a 1961 Minnesota home-movie shot, leaving small tracks across the snowy yard. — The cat walks through the snow, leaving a visible trail.

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