Wisconsin-1969: Dramatic Sunset Over Rural Landscape With Silhouetted Trees And Utility Poles

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

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Dramatic Sunset Over Rural Landscape With Silhouetted... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic sunset over a rural Wisconsin landscape. The sky blazes with intense red and magenta hues against a deep purple twilight, silhouetting bare trees, utility poles, and a distant hill. The grainy, analog quality and color distortion are characteristic of Super 8 film, evoking a powerful sense of nostalgia and Americana. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial projects, or any content exploring 1960s memories and vintage film aesthetics.

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: 125630597

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 Wisconsin or rural Americana productions needing a brief archival sunset, landscape transition, or reflective memory insert from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The visible utility poles, bare trees, rural horizon, and saturated film color support a late-1960s home-movie context, with Wisconsin and 1969 supplied by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a home-movie camera noticing a striking sky from a roadside or yard rather than documenting a planned event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red-magenta sunset sky, deep purple twilight, silhouetted bare trees, utility poles, low hills or rooflines, brush, and film frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows heavy grain, soft focus, gate edges, color shift, and high-contrast exposure that give the sunset a distinctly physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short transition, closing beat, memory cutaway, or atmospheric insert between rural family, travel, or regional-history scenes.
Historical context: The footage reflects a quiet rural view where utility poles and leafless trees interrupt the horizon, offering environmental context without showing identifiable people or events.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright, location, and any property-related use should still be reviewed for the intended project.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1969 Wisconsin 8mm sunset, rural home movie landscape, silhouetted trees utility poles, vintage red sky, or 1960s Americana cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1969 rural footage, then broader 1960s home-movie sunsets, landscapes, and evening transitions.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing silhouetted bare trees and brush against an intense red-purple rural sunset sky. — Silhouetted trees and brush stand against a saturated twilight sky.

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame with utility poles, bare trees, and a dark sloping horizon silhouetted against a red-magenta sunset. — Utility poles and winter-bare trees cut across the glowing rural horizon.

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a low dark hill or roofline, utility poles, and bare trees under a red-purple evening sky. — A dark rural foreground and utility poles sit below the vivid sunset band.

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame with a utility pole, bare tree silhouettes, brush, and a saturated red sunset fading into purple twilight. — A utility pole and thin tree branches silhouette the final sunset view.

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