New York-1971: Autumn Forest with Colorful Trees and Dead Trunk

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

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Autumn Forest with Colorful Trees and Dead Trunk — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a scenic autumn forest in New York. The footage shows rolling hills covered in dense trees displaying vibrant fall colors—rich reds, oranges, and yellows—interspersed with evergreens. A prominent dead tree trunk stands in the foreground, adding a stark contrast to the colorful foliage. The view appears to be from a moving vehicle, with dark frame edges suggesting a window perspective. The film exhibits natural grain and color fading typical of Super 8 footage, 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: 125772387

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 archival requests needing rural New York fall foliage, wooded hills, or seasonal nature cutaways from real 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The footage may show early 1970s amateur travel filming through soft color, visible film grain, and dark frame edges consistent with a small-gauge camera view.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a traveler briefly filming passing autumn scenery rather than composing a formal landscape study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wooded hills, dense red and yellow foliage, evergreens, pale sky, a bare dead trunk, dark frame edges, and slight motion framing.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows grain, softened focus, color shift, gate edges, and exposure variation that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a seasonal insert, travel transition, rural memory beat, or quiet cutaway between family or road-trip scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents a home-movie view of northeastern fall color in 1971 without showing people, buildings, vehicles, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location verification, and any broader use permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Searches for 1971 New York autumn forest, 8mm fall foliage, vintage home movie wooded hills, and red yellow trees may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1971 New York footage, then broader 1970s fall foliage or rural travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 New York 8mm view of wooded hills with mixed fall foliage, evergreens, pale sky, and a dead trunk near the center. — Rolling wooded hills with early autumn color and a stark bare trunk in front.

1971 New York 8mm frame of dense autumn trees with red leaves, yellow foliage at left, and dark film borders. — Bright red and yellow fall foliage fills the small-gauge film frame.

1971 New York 8mm view of red-orange forest canopy, yellow leaves at left, and slender trunks visible through the foliage. — Red-orange autumn canopy with yellow trees along the left side.

1971 New York 8mm frame showing red fall foliage, yellow leaves at left, darker woodland shadows, and visible gate edges. — Autumn trees in red and yellow tones framed by dark 8mm borders.

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