Minnesota USA-1961: Tall Tree Swaying with Orange Autumn Leaves

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

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Tall Tree Swaying with Orange Autumn Leaves — Clip Details

MINNESOTA USA-1961: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a tall tree with dense orange and brown autumn leaves against a pale blue sky. The footage, shot from a low angle, shows the tree swaying gently in a light wind. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including grain, soft focus, and a slightly faded color palette. The clip transitions to a blank, grainy frame, suggesting a film leader or damaged section. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of a quiet fall day, perfect for documentaries, period pieces, or nostalgic content.

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: 125498363

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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Topics & Keywords

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for requests needing early 1960s Minnesota autumn atmosphere, rural or park-like seasonal nature, or a quiet period cutaway without visible people.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, soft home-movie framing, and faded palette; the tree scene itself contains no date-specific objects.
Home-movie behavior: The low-angle view and brief hold on foliage suggest an unstaged home-movie observation of seasonal color rather than a planned scenic production shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include orange-brown tree canopy, pale blue sky, darker background trees, black film gate edges, grainy blank leader, dust marks, and soft exposure variation.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture through coarse grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, slight color fade, gate shadows, and leader-like frames after the opening foliage shot.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short autumn insert, seasonal transition, memory beat, or visual bridge into a family-history or Upper Midwest setting.
Historical context: The footage documents a quiet seasonal view from a home-movie reel, giving context for how ordinary landscapes and fall color were casually recorded in the 1960s.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and reel ownership should still be checked separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Search matches include 1961 Minnesota 8mm autumn tree, vintage home movie fall leaves, orange foliage Super 8 style footage, and blank film leader transition.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Minnesota 1961 footage, then broader 1960s home movies of autumn trees, fall color, and quiet landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Minnesota 8mm frame showing an orange-brown autumn tree canopy below a pale blue sky, with soft focus and dark film gate edges. — Autumn foliage fills the upper frame beneath a pale sky.

Grainy 8mm frame from the 1961 Minnesota clip showing a pale blank leader-like section with dust marks and dark vertical edge shadow. — A pale grainy frame appears after the foliage shot.

Blank leader-like 8mm frame with heavy grain, pale green-gray exposure, black gate edges, and scattered dust or scratch marks. — The clip continues into a blank, textured film section.

Final 8mm frame shows a pale blank leader-like exposure with visible grain, dark border shadows, and scattered dust specks. — A blank film frame closes the short autumn clip.

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