New York-1971: State Highway Maps Fanned On Blue Surface

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationNew York, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 New York

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State Highway Maps Fanned On Blue Surface — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a close-up of several state highway maps fanned out on a blue speckled surface. The frames reveal official maps for Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island, with the Vermont map clearly labeled as the 1971 Official Highway Map. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight color shifts, and a nostalgic, documentary-style feel, suggesting a family's road trip planning or travel mementos from the early 1970s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125771921

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1008 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: new york,vermont,new hampshire,maine
Date: 1971 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: New York, 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: 1971 8mm home-movie cutaway for documentary or education edits needing road-trip planning materials, northeastern state maps, or travel ephemera from the early 1970s.
Period detail: Visible clues include printed state highway maps for Pennsylvania, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts-Connecticut-Rhode Island, with the Vermont map labeled 1971 Official Highway Map.
Home-movie behavior: The close, tabletop view suggests a traveler or family member casually recording maps as trip-planning objects or souvenirs rather than staging a formal product shot.
What appears in frame: The frames show fanned paper highway maps, a blue speckled surface, a white Pennsylvania cover, a Vermont map cover, and a Massachusetts-Connecticut-Rhode Island map moved into view.
Film character: The 8mm image has visible grain, soft focus, slight purple-blue color shift, gate edges, and small exposure variations that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an insert, transition, or memory beat to signal route planning, interstate travel, vacation preparation, or a shift into a northeastern road trip sequence.
Historical context: The clip offers a small material record of printed highway maps as everyday travel aids before digital navigation, limited to the visible map covers and supported 1971 metadata.
Research note: No people are visible, but map covers and official state publication designs are identifiable, so copyright and trademark-style review should be separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 8mm highway maps, northeastern road trip planning, Pennsylvania Vermont state maps, and vintage home movie travel ephemera.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1971 New York or northeastern travel footage, then with related scenes of maps, cars, roads, motels, or vacation planning.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 8mm close-up of state highway maps on a blue speckled surface, with Pennsylvania and Vermont covers visible. — Pennsylvania and Vermont highway maps lie fanned on a blue speckled surface.

Close 1971 home-movie view of overlapping state highway maps, including Pennsylvania and Vermont, on a blue surface. — Overlapping state maps fill the frame, with the Vermont cover partly readable.

1971 8mm frame showing a Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island map over Pennsylvania and Vermont maps. — A Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island map is placed on top of the fanned maps.

Centered 1971 8mm close-up of a Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island highway map resting over other state maps. — The New England state map cover sits centered over the map stack.

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