Minnesota-1974: A Car Drives By Trees With Orange And Green Leaves

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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A Car Drives By Trees With Orange And Green Leaves — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from Minnesota in 1974, opening with a close-up of a handwritten date on a small chalkboard: 'SEPT. 28, 1974'. The scene transitions to a classic American car driving along a rural road, surrounded by trees displaying vibrant autumn foliage in shades of orange and green under an overcast sky. The footage captures the nostalgic atmosphere of a mid-1970s family road trip, with authentic film grain and color saturation characteristic of Super 8 home movies.

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: 125631274

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1974 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Minnesota, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s Minnesota home-movie requests needing an autumn road-travel insert, date-card opener, or rural seasonal cutaway.
Period detail: The handwritten chalkboard date, older American car shape, 8mm color stock, and autumn roadside scenery support a mid-1970s home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged family-film feel, moving from a homemade date slate to a roadside view of a car passing through fall trees.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a chalkboard marked SEPT. 28, 1974, pale wooden frame, dark film borders, overcast sky, orange and green trees, grass, and a car on a rural road.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm texture, visible grain, saturated fall color, slight exposure variation, and contact-print framing that preserve its home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a dated memory beat, seasonal transition, rural travel cutaway, or establishing insert for a 1970s family-road context.
Historical context: The scene reflects ordinary home-movie documentation of a dated autumn outing, with roadside landscape and family-scale filming rather than a staged public event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright status and any vehicle or location identification needs for their use.
Research search match: Matches searches such as 1974 Minnesota 8mm autumn road, Super 8 family trip date slate, vintage car fall foliage, and rural home movie travel.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Minnesota 1974 clips, then 1970s autumn road travel or home-movie date-slate material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close 8mm frame of a small chalkboard with SEPT. 28, 1974 written by hand, used as a home-movie date slate. — Handwritten date slate reading SEPT. 28, 1974.

A cropped 8mm view of the handwritten SEPT. 28, 1974 chalkboard date slate, with soft focus and dark frame edge. — Cropped date slate with the 1974 handwritten notation.

Another close frame of the home-movie chalkboard slate showing SEPT. 28, 1974, with soft 8mm grain and visible border. — Home-movie date slate fills the frame before the outdoor scene.

Minnesota 1974 home-movie view of a car near a rural road, with orange and green fall trees and a cloudy sky. — A car passes below autumn trees in a rural roadside view.

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