New York-1971: Scenic Autumn Drive With Fall Foliage And Lake View

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

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Scenic Autumn Drive With Fall Foliage And Lake View — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a scenic autumn drive through a wooded area in New York. The footage shows a road lined with vibrant fall foliage in shades of red, orange, and yellow, with utility poles and a speed limit sign visible. The view transitions to a wide shot of a calm lake bordered by forested hills under an overcast sky. The grainy texture and color palette are characteristic of Super 8 home movies from the era, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

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: 125772271

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: Useful for 1970s New York scenic travel, autumn landscape, and home-movie road-trip requests needing brief documentary or editorial atmosphere.
Period detail: Visible period clues include 8mm color rendering, roadside utility poles, simple traffic signage, and a speed limit sign that may show a rural or park road setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an unstaged traveler viewpoint, moving from a roadside foliage view to a held lake vista rather than a composed commercial landscape shot.
What appears in frame: The frames show fall-colored trees, a paved road, utility poles, traffic and speed signs, a broad lake, wooded hills, and an overcast sky.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, muted autumn color, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing consistent with amateur home-movie scanning.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a scenic insert, seasonal transition, travel cutaway, or reflective memory beat between personal or regional archive scenes.
Historical context: The imagery places everyday leisure travel within a wooded New York setting, emphasizing road access, seasonal foliage, and lake recreation without showing people.
Research note: No people, logos, or clear private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location-specific property concerns before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1971 8mm New York fall foliage, vintage autumn road footage, home movie lake view, and rural scenic travel cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel travel scenes, then other 1971 New York landscapes, then broader 1970s autumn road and lake footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 New York 8mm frame showing fall foliage, a road edge, utility poles, and speed and inlet signs in a wooded area. — Roadside fall foliage and traffic signage along a wooded New York route.

1971 New York home-movie frame of a quiet road bordered by autumn foliage, utility poles, and visible traffic signs. — A quiet road passes through dense fall foliage with roadside signs visible.

1971 New York 8mm frame showing a broad lake, distant wooded hills, shoreline structures, and an overcast sky. — A calm lake stretches toward forested hills under muted daylight.

1971 New York home-movie frame of a lake bordered by wooded hills, with a faint shoreline and cloudy sky. — Forested hills frame a broad lake in a steady scenic view.

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