Wisconsin-1969: Sunset Within The Woods

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

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Sunset Within The Woods — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1969, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic sunset over a Wisconsin woodland. The sky glows with intense, radiant reds and deep purples, casting silhouettes of bare trees and a utility pole against the fiery horizon. The film's natural grain and rich color saturation evoke a strong sense of nostalgia and Americana. This archival footage offers a timeless, atmospheric glimpse of nature at dusk, perfect 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: 125630609

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: 1969 Wisconsin 8mm home-movie footage for productions needing a brief atmospheric dusk insert or rural woodland transition.
Period detail: The utility pole, bare tree silhouettes, saturated color, and 8mm frame texture support a late-1960s home-movie context without identifying a specific town or landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the sunset as a quiet personal record, lingering on color and silhouettes rather than staged activity or identifiable subjects.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a red-purple sunset sky, dark tree lines, bare branches, a utility pole, distant horizon, and 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, strong red-magenta saturation, soft focus, and exposure falloff that give the dusk scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short transition, memory beat, seasonal cutaway, or atmospheric insert between rural or nostalgic scenes.
Historical context: The frames show a rural or wooded Wisconsin dusk view in 1969, emphasizing landscape and domestic-looking observation rather than public events or social activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable signage are visible, but copyright and any property-context questions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1969 Wisconsin 8mm sunset, rural woodland dusk home movie, red sky tree silhouettes, and vintage Midwest nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then with Wisconsin 1969 material, then with other rural sunset, woodland, or nostalgic 8mm nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing a vivid red-purple sunset with tree silhouettes and a utility pole near the horizon. — A fiery dusk sky silhouettes bare trees and a utility pole.

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame of a saturated red dusk sky, with bare trees and a utility pole in silhouette. — The sunset intensifies behind a dark tree line and pole.

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing dense bare branches and dark tree trunks against a glowing red-purple sunset. — Bare woodland branches fill the foreground against the glowing sky.

1969 Wisconsin 8mm frame with dark woodland silhouettes, a utility pole, and a saturated red dusk sky. — Woodland silhouettes and a pole cut across the red evening sky.

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