Wisconsin-1971: Rural Landscape With Dry Grass And Lake

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

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Rural Landscape With Dry Grass And Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1971, this vintage home movie captures a quiet rural landscape in Wisconsin. The view, framed by dark borders, shows a field of dry, golden-brown grass stretching toward a calm body of water under a pale blue sky. Bare trees line the distant shore, suggesting late autumn or early spring. The film exhibits natural grain and slight color fading typical of Super 8 footage from the era. The camera remains steady, offering a peaceful, nostalgic glimpse of the American countryside.

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: 125775346

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 editorial productions needing a quiet rural Wisconsin landscape cutaway from original 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The dry grasses, bare trees, pale sky, and soft 8mm color may show a late-autumn or early-spring rural lakeside scene in the early 1970s.
Home-movie behavior: The steady, observational framing gives the clip an unstaged home-movie view of open land and water rather than a composed travelogue scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dry golden grass, shallow wet ground, calm lake water, distant leafless trees, pale blue sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, slight color fading, soft focus, and gate borders that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural establishing insert, seasonal transition, quiet cutaway, or memory beat between more specific Wisconsin scenes.
Historical context: The view documents a non-urban American lakeside landscape as seen through a home-movie camera, without visible people, structures, vehicles, or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private structures are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific property concerns still require separate review.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1971 Wisconsin 8mm rural landscape, vintage home movie lake grass, and 1970s Midwestern countryside footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then other Wisconsin 1971 clips, then broader rural lake or seasonal countryside home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing dry lakeside grass, calm water, distant bare trees, and dark film borders. — Dry grass and shallow wet ground stretch toward a calm lake with bare trees beyond.

1971 Wisconsin home-movie frame with golden dry grass, still lake water, leafless trees, and pale sky. — A quiet lakeside field of dry grass faces a tree-lined shore under a pale sky.

1971 Wisconsin 8mm view of an open grassy wetland, calm water, bare trees, and soft faded color. — Open dry grass and patches of wet ground lead to still water and a distant tree line.

1971 Wisconsin frame showing dry lakeside grass, a calm body of water, bare distant trees, and dark frame edges. — Dry grass fills the foreground, with quiet water and leafless trees across the background.

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