Wisconsin-1969: A Big And Smooth Place Where The Snow Was Filled In The Hills In

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Year1969
Decade1960s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1969 Wisconsin

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A Big And Smooth Place Where The Snow Was Filled In The... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a vast, snow-covered landscape in Wisconsin. The footage shows a large, smooth dam or embankment with a frozen reservoir behind it, surrounded by rolling hills under a pale sky. The distinctive purple and blue color cast of the film gives it a nostalgic, retro feel. The camera pans slowly across the scene, revealing the scale of the man-made structure against the natural winter environment. This archival footage offers a quiet, contemplative look at a cold, snowy day in the American Midwest.

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: 125630557

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 1021 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1969
Reel-level location note: minnesota,wisconsin
Date: 1969 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: Wisconsin, 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: Supports 1960s Midwest archive requests needing a brief winter landscape, dam, reservoir, or rural infrastructure cutaway for documentary or educational use.
Period detail: The scene may show a late-1960s visitor view of a snow-covered Wisconsin dam or embankment, with no visible vehicles, signage, clothing, or buildings to further date the footage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational quality of a home-movie pan, pausing on the scale of a frozen reservoir and surrounding hills rather than staging any action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad frozen water surface, sloped embankment, distant wooded hills, pale winter sky, shoreline curves, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm footage shows soft focus, visible grain, handheld drift, uneven exposure, and a purple-blue color cast that read as physical home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, winter transition, infrastructure cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a Midwest or cold-weather sequence.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for recreational or family-shot views of large public works and frozen rural landscapes in Wisconsin during the home-movie era.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but location identity, copyright status, and any property or agency permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Wisconsin 8mm winter landscape, frozen reservoir home movie, snowy dam embankment footage, and Midwest rural infrastructure cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Wisconsin 1969 winter footage, then with broader themes of frozen lakes, dams, rural landscapes, or Midwest travel.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a snowy embankment, frozen reservoir, dark shoreline, and low hills under a pale sky. — A frozen reservoir stretches beyond a snow-covered embankment in a winter landscape.

1969 Wisconsin home-movie view of a broad frozen reservoir bordered by a sloped snowy bank and distant wooded hills. — The camera holds on the wide frozen surface and the curved winter shoreline.

1969 Wisconsin 8mm still with a smooth frozen reservoir, snowy foreground slope, distant ridge, and pale winter sky. — A smooth white reservoir surface fills the frame beneath a dark winter ridge.

1969 Wisconsin winter landscape showing a frozen reservoir, low wooded hills, and a winding far shoreline in soft 8mm color. — The pan opens to a broader view of the frozen reservoir and distant shoreline.

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