New York-1971: Autumn Road Through Colorful Forest Landscape

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

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Autumn Road Through Colorful Forest Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a scenic autumn drive through New York. The footage shows a winding two-lane road cutting through a dense forest ablaze with fall colors—vibrant reds, oranges, and yellows against lingering green. A white highway marker displaying '28' is visible on the right. The perspective, framed by dark window edges, suggests the view from a moving vehicle, with the road curving over a small bridge. The film exhibits natural grain and slight color fading, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

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: 125772042

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 New York 8mm road-and-landscape footage for productions needing an autumn travel insert, rural highway cutaway, or period home-movie transition.
Period detail: The visible Route 28-style highway marker, two-lane pavement, bridge rail, and fall foliage may show an early 1970s upstate New York driving view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a passenger looking through vehicle windows during a quiet scenic drive rather than a composed travelogue shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a curving two-lane road, small bridge, highway marker, dark window bars, wooded hills, autumn leaves, pale sky, and film dust.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft focus, moderate grain, slight color fading, intermittent dust, and window-framed composition as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief travel insert, rural transition, seasonal establishing beat, or memory cue between family or regional archive scenes.
Historical context: The footage records a car-centered view of wooded New York landscape in autumn, with roadside infrastructure and foliage as the main social context.
Research note: No people are visible, but the highway marker or road-sign identification and underlying film copyright should still be reviewed separately from likeness issues.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1971 New York 8mm autumn road, vintage home movie forest drive, Route 28 rural highway, and fall foliage car window footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel road footage, then other 1971 New York travel views, then broader autumn forest, rural highway, or passenger-view driving clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 New York 8mm frame showing a curving rural road, bridge rail, autumn woods, and dark vehicle-window edges. — A two-lane road bends through wooded hills with fall color, seen from inside a moving vehicle.

1971 New York 8mm frame with dense fall foliage, a partly visible Route 28-style marker, and dark vehicle-window framing. — A roadside marker appears beside a window bar as the camera looks across autumn-covered hills.

1971 New York 8mm frame showing layered red, orange, yellow, and green trees across a wooded hillside from a passenger view. — The road has dropped out of view, leaving a soft passenger-window view of dense fall foliage.

1971 New York 8mm frame showing a dense fall-colored hillside, pale sky, and a dark window bar from inside a vehicle. — A dark window bar divides a view of wooded hills with mixed autumn color.

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