Vermont-1971: Autumn Foliage And View From A Car As It Drives Down A Rural Road

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationVermont, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Autumn Foliage And View From A Car As It Drives Down A... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a scenic autumn drive through Vermont. The clip opens with a vibrant, sun-drenched view of a forest ablaze with fall colors—rich reds, golds, and oranges—before transitioning to a winding rural road. A car travels along the asphalt path, passing a tall utility pole and guardrail, with rolling hills and distant mountains visible under a soft sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, mid-century Americana feel. Ideal 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: 125773604

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: Vermont, 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 Vermont travel, rural New England, autumn foliage, and home-movie road footage in documentary or editorial edits.
Period detail: The frames show 8mm-era color footage with rural road infrastructure, guardrails, utility poles, and fall foliage consistent with the supplied 1971 Vermont metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler viewpoint, moving from scenic foliage observation to a car-window perspective on a winding rural road.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dense autumn trees, red and gold foliage, a rural asphalt road, guardrails, utility poles, rolling hills, distant mountains, and a soft sky.
Film character: The footage has warm color saturation, visible grain, slight softness, and handheld or in-car framing typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a travel transition, regional establishing insert, seasonal cutaway, or memory beat for rural New England.
Historical context: The scene documents a quiet rural landscape and seasonal leisure viewpoint without visible people, businesses, signage, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright, location, and any roadway or land-use context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1971 8mm Vermont autumn foliage, rural New England road, vintage home movie car view, and fall color landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent frames from the same reel, then other 1971 Vermont material, then broader New England autumn travel and rural road footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Vermont 8mm frame showing dense autumn foliage across a wooded hillside, with saturated reds, oranges, golds, and greens. — Dense fall foliage fills the frame in a wooded Vermont landscape.

1971 Vermont 8mm frame of a fall-colored forest hillside, including a vivid red cluster among orange, gold, and green trees. — A red stand of trees appears among layered autumn woods.

1971 Vermont 8mm frame from a car view down a winding rural road with utility poles, guardrails, trees, hills, and pale distant mountains. — The view shifts to a winding rural road through wooded hills.

1971 Vermont 8mm frame looking down a quiet curving road bordered by guardrails, utility poles, mixed trees, hills, and distant mountains. — A quiet road curves through trees toward distant hills and mountains.

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