New York-1971: Autumn Forest with Fall Colors

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

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Autumn Forest with Fall Colors — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a vibrant autumn forest scene in New York. Sun-drenched trees display a brilliant mix of green, yellow, orange, and red foliage against a clear blue sky. The footage, framed by dark borders typical of Super 8 home movies, shows a natural, unscripted moment of seasonal change. The camera remains steady, focusing on the colorful canopy, evoking a sense of peaceful nostalgia and the beauty of nature in the early 1970s.

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: 125772657

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 nature or season-change requests needing noncommercial home-movie autumn foliage as a brief editorial cutaway.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft focus, dark frame edges, and steady amateur framing support an early 1970s home-movie reading without showing specific landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie pause on trees and sky, suggesting a personal record of fall color rather than a planned scenic production.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include red and yellow deciduous trees, green evergreens, blue sky, a thin overhead wire, dark film borders, and soft sunlit foliage.
Film character: The footage has saturated 8mm color, visible grain, slight softness, and gate-edge darkness that give the scene a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a seasonal insert, memory beat, rural transition, or natural cutaway within a 1970s New York or family archive sequence.
Historical context: The frames show autumn foliage in a quiet outdoor setting, offering visual context for everyday seasonal observation in archival home movies.
Research note: No people, brands, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location confirmation, and any underlying collection permissions still require review.
Research search match: Search matches include 1971 New York autumn trees, 8mm fall foliage, vintage home movie forest, and 1970s seasonal nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1971 New York outdoor footage, then broader vintage autumn foliage and seasonal landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 New York 8mm frame showing colorful autumn tree canopies, blue sky, and dark film borders. — Colorful autumn trees fill the frame beneath a clear blue sky.

1971 New York home-movie frame of mixed autumn foliage and clear sky, bordered by the 8mm film frame. — Mixed fall colors appear across the upper tree canopy.

1971 New York 8mm frame showing a taller cluster of fall trees, evergreens, blue sky, and a faint overhead wire. — A taller stand of fall trees shows red, yellow, orange, and green foliage.

1971 New York 8mm frame of dense fall-colored trees with evergreens, blue sky, and soft home-movie texture. — Dense fall foliage fills the frame with a mix of warm colors and green trees.

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