Minnesota-1974: Autumn Forest with Trees in Fall Colors

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationMinnesota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Autumn Forest with Trees in Fall Colors — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1974, this vintage home movie captures a vibrant autumn hillside in Minnesota. The camera slowly pans across a dense forest, showcasing trees ablaze with fall colors—rich reds, golden yellows, and lingering greens—under a cloudy sky. The footage has a nostalgic, grainy quality typical of Super 8 home movies, with dark frame edges suggesting it was filmed through a window or viewfinder. This authentic slice of Americana evokes a sense of quiet rural beauty and seasonal change.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125631340

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 U.S. regional nature coverage, seasonal transition sequences, and documentary edits needing archival Minnesota autumn landscape material.
Period detail: The 8mm home-movie texture and 1974 metadata support a mid-1970s setting, while the frames themselves show only a wooded hillside in fall color.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the hillside from a quiet, personal vantage point, giving the scene the feel of an unstaged home-movie record of seasonal scenery.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wooded hills, red and yellow autumn trees, lingering green foliage, a grassy slope, cloudy sky, dark frame edges, and soft 8mm exposure.
Film character: The clip has grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and dark rounded frame edges that read as physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief cutaway, seasonal transition, memory beat, or rural establishing insert within a 1970s archive sequence.
Historical context: The footage reflects a domestic record of fall foliage and rural or park-like scenery, without visible people, vehicles, signage, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still review copyright, source ownership, and any location-specific property concerns.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1974 Minnesota autumn foliage, 1970s 8mm home movie landscape, fall color hillside, rural trees, and vintage nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with 1974 Minnesota footage, and then with broader autumn landscape or seasonal home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Minnesota 8mm frame showing a distant autumn hillside with mixed red, yellow, and green foliage below a cloudy sky. — Distant fall-colored trees spread across a wooded hillside under overcast sky.

1974 Minnesota 8mm view of a fall tree canopy on a low hillside, with red, gold, and green foliage framed by dark edges. — A broad band of mixed autumn color fills the hillside beyond a strip of grass.

1974 Minnesota home-movie frame showing dense autumn trees, including orange and yellow crowns against darker green woods. — A closer section of the hillside emphasizes orange and yellow trees among darker foliage.

1974 Minnesota 8mm frame of bright autumn treetops on a wooded slope, with orange, yellow, and green leaves in soft focus. — Bright fall treetops cluster on the hillside, bordered by darker woods and 8mm frame edges.

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