Wisconsin-1971: Grassy Field And Lake With Snow Patches

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

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Grassy Field And Lake With Snow Patches — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a tranquil Wisconsin landscape. The view, framed by dark borders, shows a grassy field with dry, golden reeds in the foreground, leading to a calm body of water. Patches of snow linger on the ground, suggesting late winter or early spring. A tree-lined shore and rolling hills form the background under a pale sky. The footage exhibits natural film grain and slight camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 125775332

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s Wisconsin home-movie requests needing a quiet rural lake, marsh grass, and late-winter or early-spring landscape cutaway.
Period detail: The 1971 8mm metadata is supported by the scan context, while the visible scene shows open water, dormant reeds, bare trees, and lingering snow patches.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie viewpoint, holding on a lakeside field from a distance with slight handheld drift rather than composed travel-film coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dry foreground grass, snow patches, a calm lake, distant tree line, low hills, pale sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, muted color, uneven exposure, and slight handheld movement within the frame gate.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a landscape insert, seasonal transition, rural Wisconsin cutaway, or reflective memory beat between family or travel scenes.
Historical context: The scene suggests a quiet Upper Midwest waterside landscape in a cold-season thaw, without visible people, vehicles, buildings, signs, or public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright status and location identification should still be checked for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1971 8mm Wisconsin lake footage, snowy marsh grass, rural home movie landscape, spring thaw shoreline, and vintage nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1971 exteriors, then broader 1970s lake, field, snowmelt, or nature-walk material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing dormant lakeside grass, small snow patches, calm water, and a distant wooded shore. — Dormant grass and lingering snow border a quiet Wisconsin lake.

1971 Wisconsin 8mm view across dry reeds and patchy snow toward a calm lake and wooded hillside. — A quiet lake sits beyond dry reeds and patchy snow.

1971 Wisconsin home-movie frame with dry lakeside grass, lingering snow, calm water, and a tree-lined shore. — Dry grasses and snow patches frame the lakeshore view.

1971 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing marsh grass, snow remnants, open lake water, and a bare tree line under a pale sky. — Marsh grass and snow remnants stretch along open lake water.

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