Minnesota USA-1961: Sunset with Dramatic Clouds and Dated Card

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

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Sunset with Dramatic Clouds and Dated Card — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1961: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a dramatic sunset over a flat horizon, with vibrant orange and yellow light glowing beneath a vast sky of deep blue and purple clouds. The footage, shot on 8mm film, shows natural film grain and a subtle horizontal scan line, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The final frame reveals a hand-dated photo card reading "DEC. 10, 1961," confirming the date and adding a personal, historical touch to this classic American home movie.

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: 125498144

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: 1961 Minnesota home-movie sunset footage for documentary inserts, memory sequences, seasonal transitions, or archive research needing dated Midwestern sky views.
Period detail: The hand-dated card reading DEC. 10, 1961 supports the year, while the visible landscape itself shows a low rural or suburban horizon without identifiable landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the quiet observational character of a family-film sky shot, lingering on changing clouds and closing with a dated personal record card.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include orange sunset light, blue-purple cloud bands, a dark tree-line horizon, black film borders, grain, and a hand-dated photo card.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows saturated reversal color, visible grain, soft exposure shifts, dark frame edges, and contact-sheet framing that preserve the physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief atmospheric insert, passage-of-time transition, winter memory beat, or dated home-movie cutaway before or after family material.
Historical context: The footage places a personal December 1961 date beside a Minnesota sky study, offering everyday visual context rather than a documented public event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, and use-specific clearance should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1961 Minnesota 8mm sunset, December 1960s home movie clouds, dated family film sky, and vintage Midwest sunset footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other Minnesota or 1961 clips, then broader 1960s home-movie sunsets, weather, and memory transitions.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Minnesota 8mm frame showing orange sunset light under blue-purple clouds above a dark tree-line horizon. — Sunset glow and layered clouds over a low horizon at the start of the clip.

1961 Minnesota home-movie view of rolling purple clouds over yellow-orange sunset light and a dark horizon. — Cloud bands stretch across the twilight sky with warm light near the horizon.

1961 Minnesota 8mm frame with layered blue and purple clouds over a glowing sunset and low dark horizon. — A slightly later sunset view shows the same layered clouds and silhouetted horizon.

Final 8mm frame shows a hand-dated card reading DEC. 10, 1961, with a small mounted photo on a tabletop. — A dated card confirms DEC. 10, 1961 beside a small mounted photograph.

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