Wisconsin-1971: River over Rocks at Jim Falls Dam

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Year1971
Decade1970s
LocationWisconsin, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1971 Wisconsin

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River over Rocks at Jim Falls Dam — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a small river flowing over smooth, sun-dappled rocks at Jim Falls Dam in Wisconsin. The natural watercourse winds through a rocky bed, with sunlight reflecting off the surface. The final frames reveal a handwritten chalkboard sign identifying the location as 'JIM FALLS DAM' with the date '9-13-71', confirming the era and place. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 125774152

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 1007 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1971
Reel-level location note: Wisconsin,Michigan
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: Wisconsin, 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 Wisconsin archive requests needing brief home-movie views of river rocks, dam-area water, or place-identifying travel footage.
Period detail: The handwritten chalkboard reading Jim Falls Dam and 9-13-71 supports the 1971 date and Wisconsin location supplied in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint, moving from close observation of water-worn rocks to a simple identifying slate rather than a staged scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rounded river stones, shallow water, sunlit rock surfaces, dark film edges, and a chalkboard label naming Jim Falls Dam.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and saturated home-movie color that reads as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, location insert, river transition, or memory beat before or after broader Wisconsin dam footage.
Historical context: The footage documents a casual 1971 visit to a dam-area watercourse, emphasizing landscape detail and location notation rather than public activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, location access, and any property-related uses should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1971 Wisconsin home movie, Jim Falls Dam rocks, small river over stones, 8mm dam-area footage, and vintage Midwest watercourse.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Jim Falls or Wisconsin 1971 material, then broader 1970s dam, river, rock, and nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Close 1971 Wisconsin home-movie view of rounded rocks with shallow water moving between them near Jim Falls Dam. — Smooth stones and shallow water in the rocky river area.

Close view of large smooth stones and narrow channels of water, consistent with the Jim Falls Dam area noted in the clip. — Water threads through smooth rocks in the dam-area stream bed.

Handwritten chalkboard slate identifies the location as Jim Falls Dam and shows the date 9-13-71. — Location slate for Jim Falls Dam with the filmed date written below.

End frame shows a handwritten chalkboard label reading Jim Falls Dam with the 9-13-71 date below. — Final identifying slate confirms Jim Falls Dam and the date.

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