New York-1971: Lakeside Sunset with Distant Mountains

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

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Lakeside Sunset with Distant Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside landscape at dusk. The sequence begins with a silhouetted shoreline and calm water under a warm, golden sky, transitioning to a cooler twilight scene with distant mountains and a faint airplane visible against the horizon. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and natural color shifts, evoking a nostalgic, contemplative mood. This archival clip offers authentic 1970s home movie aesthetics, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 125772758

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 lakeside twilight footage for documentary inserts, reflective transitions, nature cutaways, or period memory sequences.
Period detail: The frames may show early 1970s home-movie landscape filming, with no visible structures, signage, vehicles, clothing, or other date-specific details beyond the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes an unstaged lakeside view at dusk, holding on water, tree silhouettes, clouds, and distant hills from a quiet personal vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, dark shoreline trees, distant hills or mountains, layered clouds, sunset color, twilight sky, and soft film borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure shifts, color fading, and dark frame edges that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, contemplative transition, dusk cutaway, or visual memory beat between more specific 1970s scenes.
Historical context: As visual context, the clip records a quiet New York lakeside landscape in 1971 without identifiable people, buildings, businesses, or public events visible.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still confirm copyright status and any broader location or collection restrictions.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1971 New York 8mm lake sunset, vintage home movie twilight landscape, silhouetted shoreline, and distant mountain dusk footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel outdoor shots, then other New York 1971 landscapes, then broader 1970s 8mm nature, lake, sunset, or memory material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 New York 8mm frame of a dark lakeside shoreline, still water, and layered clouds under a fading sunset sky. — A silhouetted tree line crosses the lake as low clouds sit below a warm dusk sky.

1971 New York 8mm frame showing a quiet lake, black tree-covered ridge, and muted evening clouds near the horizon. — The lake remains still as the shoreline forms a dark band beneath the evening cloud layer.

1971 New York 8mm frame of silhouetted trees in the foreground with bluish twilight clouds and distant hills or mountains. — Foreground trees fall into silhouette while distant mountain forms and clouds show in cool twilight.

1971 New York 8mm frame with a dark wooded foreground, faint distant mountains, and a pale evening sky. — A wooded foreground frames distant mountain silhouettes beneath the fading blue twilight.

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