New York-1971: Vibrant Autumn Forest With Colorful Trees

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

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Vibrant Autumn Forest With Colorful Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a vibrant autumn forest in New York. The footage shows a rolling hillside blanketed in trees displaying rich fall colors—deep reds, fiery oranges, and golden yellows intermingled with lingering green foliage. The view appears to be from a moving vehicle, with a dark frame border visible, suggesting a window perspective. The film exhibits natural grain, slight motion blur, and the characteristic color palette of 1970s home movie footage. Power lines cross the upper portion of the frame, adding a subtle human element to the natural landscape. This authentic archival clip evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

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: 125772057

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 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 home-movie footage for productions needing a brief autumn landscape insert, period travel cutaway, or regional seasonal atmosphere.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1970s roadside or window-shot scenery, with visible film gate edges, soft color rendition, and overhead utility lines as modest era cues.
Home-movie behavior: The view feels casually recorded from a moving vehicle or through a window, preserving an unstaged glance at fall foliage rather than a composed scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wooded hillsides, dense autumn leaves, lingering green foliage, dark window or film-frame bars, pale sky, and faint overhead utility lines.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries visible grain, soft focus, slight motion blur, uneven exposure, and warm faded color that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a seasonal transition, memory beat, travel insert, or natural cutaway between family, road-trip, or regional New York sequences.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for a domestic travel or leisure moment, showing a wooded New York landscape in fall without identifiable people or events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the provided frames, but copyright and location-specific use should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 New York autumn forest 8mm, vintage fall foliage home movie, roadside trees, and 1970s landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1971 New York material, then broader vintage autumn landscape or road-travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 New York 8mm view of a wooded hillside with fall colors, pale sky, and dark vertical window or film-frame bars. — A wooded hillside in autumn colors appears beyond dark vertical frame bars.

1971 New York 8mm frame showing a rolling forest canopy with red, orange, yellow, and green foliage behind dark vertical borders. — Mixed fall foliage covers a rolling wooded hillside, partially framed by dark vertical bars.

1971 New York 8mm close roadside view of dense autumn leaves and green shrubs, with motion blur and a dark vertical edge. — Dense roadside foliage fills the frame with red and green leaves softened by motion blur.

1971 New York 8mm frame of dense fall foliage, with green leaves, red-orange branches, and soft home-movie blur. — A close view of fall foliage shows green leaves mixed with red-orange branches.

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