New York-1971: Lakeside with Forested Hills and Autumn Colors

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

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Lakeside with Forested Hills and Autumn Colors — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside landscape in New York. The calm water reflects the surrounding forested hills, where autumn colors begin to emerge among the green trees. A small white buoy floats in the foreground, and distant boats dot the shoreline. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a peaceful, nostalgic weekend escape. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring 1970s Americana.

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: 125772813

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 home-movie footage supports archive requests for quiet rural recreation, lake scenery, autumn foliage, and 1970s Americana cutaways.
Period detail: The frames may show an early-1970s leisure landscape, with no visible vehicles, clothing, signage, or buildings to provide stronger period clues beyond the dated 8mm source.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a home-movie pause on a lakeside view, observing water, wooded hills, and a buoy from a calm shoreline or boat-side vantage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, forested hills, early autumn color, a small white buoy, distant shoreline, faint boats, pale sky, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm home-movie texture through soft focus, visible grain, mild color shift, exposure variation, and slight handheld framing across the lake.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, seasonal transition, rural travel cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a 1970s New York sequence.
Historical context: The view reflects a recreational lakeside setting in New York, with wooded hills and open water suggesting a weekend or vacation landscape rather than an urban scene.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or clear private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any underlying property context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1971 New York 8mm lake footage, 1970s home movie autumn hills, vintage lakeside landscape, and rural New York vacation cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1971 New York lake or foliage footage, and then with broader rural leisure and nature scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 New York 8mm view of a quiet lake, wooded hills, faint shoreline details, and pale sky framed by dark film borders. — A calm lake stretches toward forested hills under a pale sky.

Wide 1971 New York lakeside frame with still water, wooded hills, faint boats near shore, and visible 8mm contact-frame borders. — Still water and a tree-covered shoreline fill the frame.

1971 New York home-movie frame showing calm lake water, a small white buoy, wooded hills, and early autumn color in soft 8mm texture. — A small white buoy sits on the lake before wooded hills.

Quiet 1971 New York lake scene with a white buoy in the foreground, wooded hills beyond the water, and soft grain from the 8mm source. — The buoy marks the still water in front of a wooded hillside.

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