New York-1971: Rolling Autumn Hills with Rural Homes

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

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Rolling Autumn Hills with Rural Homes — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a scenic autumn landscape in New York. The footage shows rolling hills blanketed in fall foliage, with trees displaying vibrant reds, oranges, and yellows against evergreen pines. Several houses are nestled among the trees on the slopes, viewed from a distance. The camera appears to be moving, possibly from a vehicle, creating a gentle pan across the colorful countryside. The image has the characteristic grain and color saturation of Super 8 film, evoking a strong sense of nostalgia and Americana. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or any project seeking authentic 1970s rural scenery.

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: 125772432

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 countryside footage for productions needing autumn landscape, rural establishing views, or nostalgic regional cutaways.
Period detail: The frames may show early 1970s rural New York through distant hillside homes, wooded slopes, and saturated fall color captured on consumer 8mm film.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler or family-camera viewpoint, observing autumn hills and roadside trees without posed subjects or scripted action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wooded hills, autumn foliage, evergreen stands, distant rural houses, a blue sky, roadside trees, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture with visible grain, saturated color, soft focus, uneven exposure, and slight handheld or moving-camera framing.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural autumn insert, seasonal transition, travel-memory beat, or quiet establishing cutaway for New York in the 1970s.
Historical context: The scene documents a non-urban New York landscape where homes sit among wooded hills during peak fall color, without visible people or vehicles.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, though distant homes should be reviewed for property context and copyright clearance remains separate.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1971 New York autumn 8mm footage, rural fall foliage home movie, wooded hills with houses, and vintage countryside cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1971 New York landscapes, then broader 1970s rural autumn or fall foliage home-movie scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 New York 8mm frame showing fall-colored hills, evergreen trees, and small rural homes in the distance. — Distant houses sit among wooded New York hills during autumn color.

1971 New York countryside view with wooded slopes, patchy fall color, and distant houses along the hillside. — A wooded hillside with scattered homes appears across the autumn landscape.

1971 New York 8mm frame with an orange autumn tree standing before darker woods and roadside vegetation. — An orange fall tree stands against dense green woods.

1971 New York countryside frame showing a bright orange tree, thick green woods, and open sky from a passing viewpoint. — A bright autumn tree fills the foreground against surrounding forest.

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