New York-1959: Wind Blows Through Snowy Landscape

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Year1959
Decade1950s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Wind Blows Through Snowy Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1959, this vintage home movie captures a bleak winter landscape in New York, with snow blanketing the ground and bare trees swaying in a strong wind. The camera pans slowly across a quiet suburban neighborhood, revealing snow-covered houses, leafless trees, and utility poles under a gray, overcast sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, blue-tinted color grading, and visible film grain, evoking a nostalgic, melancholic mood. This archival clip offers authentic 1950s Americana for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 125575475

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 1101 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: north pole,game farm,amusement park, reel 2
Reel-level year note: 1959
Reel-level location note: new york
Date: 1959 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: New York, 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

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Supports requests for 1950s New York winter suburb exteriors, especially documentary inserts about weather, neighborhood quiet, or postwar domestic landscapes.
Period detail: The frames may show mid-century suburban housing, overhead utility poles, bare deciduous trees, and deep snow in a New York residential area.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged home-movie view from indoors or near a window, observing wind and snow across a quiet neighborhood.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-covered lawns, leafless trees, low houses, rooflines, a hedge, utility poles, and a pale winter sky.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, blue cast, visible grain, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter cutaway, weather insert, suburban transition, or reflective memory beat between family scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents a residential winter scene without visible people, vehicles, signage, or public landmarks to anchor a more specific social claim.
Research note: No faces, logos, or music are indicated, but residential exteriors and copyright status still require normal clearance review.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1959 New York snow, 1950s suburb winter, 8mm home movie weather, windy snowy neighborhood, and vintage residential exterior.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel winter footage, then New York 1959 residential material, then broader 1950s snow and suburban weather scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1959 New York 8mm frame showing a snow-covered residential landscape with leafless trees and distant houses. — Snow blankets a quiet suburban view with bare trees and distant homes.

1959 New York winter frame with a leafless tree, hedge, utility pole, and low homes behind deep snow. — A bare tree and hedge stand in front of snow-covered residential buildings.

Blue-tinted 8mm frame from New York showing utility poles, bare trees, and snow around low suburban buildings. — Utility poles and bare trees cut through a windblown snowy neighborhood scene.

1959 New York home-movie frame showing a snowy residential exterior, bare tree, utility pole, and low roofline. — A low house and bare tree appear through the soft blue cast of the winter film.

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