Vermont-1971: The Beauty Of Trees During An Autumn Season

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationVermont, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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The Beauty Of Trees During An Autumn Season — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping autumn landscape in Vermont. Rolling hills are blanketed in dense forest, with trees displaying vibrant fall colors—rich greens, golden yellows, and deep reds. The footage, framed by dark borders typical of Super 8 film, offers a nostalgic, slightly grainy view of nature’s seasonal transformation. The camera remains steady, presenting a serene, wide-angle perspective of the countryside under an overcast sky. This authentic slice of Americana evokes a sense of calm and timelessness, 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: 125773995

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: 1971 Vermont 8mm home-movie footage for requests needing a quiet autumn landscape, rural New England atmosphere, or seasonal nature cutaway.
Period detail: The visible clue is the 8mm home-movie look itself, with no vehicles, buildings, clothing, signs, or landmarks visible to add more specific period detail.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer's view, holding on distant forested hills as a home-movie record of fall color rather than a directed scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include wooded hills, mixed green and yellow foliage, patches of red autumn leaves, pale overcast sky, distant ridgeline, and dark film gate borders.
Film character: The scan shows soft 8mm texture, mild grain, uneven exposure at the sky, and dark vertical frame edges that reinforce its physical home-movie source.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief establishing insert, seasonal transition, memory beat, or rural New England cutaway between family or travel scenes.
Historical context: The footage documents a non-urban Vermont landscape in autumn, emphasizing forest cover and seasonal color without visible human activity or built environment.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright and location-use questions should still be checked against source ownership and licensing records.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 Vermont autumn forest 8mm, New England fall foliage home movie, vintage wooded hills landscape, and rural seasonal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Vermont 1971 material, then broader 1970s New England fall foliage or rural nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Vermont 8mm frame showing distant wooded hills with green, yellow, and red fall foliage beneath an overcast sky. — A distant ridgeline rises beyond dense autumn forest in Vermont.

1971 Vermont home-movie frame with a rounded wooded hill and mixed fall foliage visible through dark 8mm frame edges. — Mixed autumn colors cover a wooded hill beneath a bright, clouded sky.

1971 Vermont 8mm frame looking over dense forest with muted fall colors and a hazy ridgeline in the distance. — The camera looks across layered autumn treetops toward a distant ridge.

1971 Vermont 8mm frame of rolling forest in fall color, with dark film borders and an overcast sky above the hills. — Rolling woodland fills the frame with muted green, yellow, and orange fall color.

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