Wisconsin-1969: Video Of Trees Being Illuminated By Red Light At Night

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

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Video Of Trees Being Illuminated By Red Light At Night — Clip Details

WISCONSIN-1969: A grainy 8mm home movie captures a mysterious night scene with vibrant red light illuminating silhouetted trees against a deep blue sky. The footage, shot on vintage Super 8 film, shows a static view of the glowing red light source and its reflection on the foliage, creating an eerie, atmospheric glow. The high contrast and film grain give it a distinct retro aesthetic, evoking a sense of nostalgia and quiet wonder from a forgotten moment in time.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorNight
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125630593

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: Useful for 1960s archival requests needing abstract night footage, red illumination, or atmospheric nature cutaways from home-movie material.
Period detail: The frames show few dateable details, but the 8mm color, grain, gate edges, and metadata support late-1960s Wisconsin home-movie footage.
Home-movie behavior: The static framing suggests a home-movie operator recording an unusual night glow on trees rather than a staged or directed scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue night sky, red light bands, silhouetted tree tops, dark foliage, frame edges, and heavy film grain.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, saturated red-blue color contrast, soft focus, uneven exposure, and visible frame/gate artifacts that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an eerie insert, nocturnal transition, memory beat, or abstract cutaway between more literal Wisconsin or 1960s home-movie scenes.
Historical context: The scene reflects an amateur attempt to capture colored light at night, with the subject remaining ambiguous beyond illuminated trees and sky.
Research note: No people, logos, or evident private property are visible, but copyright, source ownership, and any contextual claims should still be reviewed before licensing.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1969 Wisconsin 8mm night trees, red light home movie, abstract Super 8 night footage, and vintage illuminated foliage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1969 Wisconsin night or outdoor footage, then thematically with abstract light, trees, and atmospheric home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a red horizontal light smear across a dark blue night scene with visible film borders. — Red light spreads across a blue night frame, with the subject mostly abstracted by exposure and grain.

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame with saturated red light stretching across a blue night background and a visible dark frame edge. — A saturated red band glows across the blue night scene, framed by the physical film edge.

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a red glow low in the blue night scene, softened by grain and exposure. — The red illumination shifts lower in frame, remaining abstract against the dark blue background.

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing dark tree silhouettes lit from behind by red light against a blue night sky. — Tree silhouettes become visible as red light glows behind the foliage in the night scene.

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