Wisconsin-1971: Flooded River With Slow Currents And Submerged Barn

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

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Flooded River With Slow Currents And Submerged Barn — Clip Details

WISCONSIN-1971: A vintage 8mm home movie captures a wide, slow-moving river during a spring flood. The water, tinted with a distinct purple hue, overflows its banks, submerging fields and partially covering a dark barn on the right. Bare trees line the distant shore under a pale sky, with power lines stretching across the frame. The footage, shot from a moving perspective, shows the calm yet powerful currents of the flooded landscape, evoking a sense of quiet rural Americana from the early 1970s.

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: 125775363

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: 1971 Wisconsin 8mm footage helps solve requests for rural flood coverage, river conditions, and quiet documentary cutaways of Midwestern landscape change.
Period detail: The clip may show early 1970s rural Wisconsin through the 8mm color stock, open fields, bare trees, overhead utility lines, and a dark barn beside floodwater.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a moving vantage point without staging, giving the flood scene the incidental feel of a family or traveler recording local conditions.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include broad floodwater, slow surface currents, submerged field edges, bare riverside trees, distant low hills, utility wires, snow patches, and a dark barn.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft grain, slight gate borders, muted exposure, and a purple-blue color cast that preserve the physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural flood insert, environmental transition, establishing cutaway, or quiet memory beat between more specific Wisconsin material.
Historical context: The frames give visual context for a spring flood affecting farmland and outbuildings, without identifying a specific river, town, owner, or event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the visible barn and farmland may require property-context review separate from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1971 Wisconsin 8mm flood river, rural barn in floodwater, Midwestern spring flooding, and home movie river currents.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other 1971 Wisconsin rural footage, then broader archive themes of floods, rivers, farms, and seasonal water events.

Still Frames From This Clip

1971 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing broad floodwater, slow currents, bare riverside trees, and a distant rural shoreline. — Floodwater spreads across a wide river landscape with bare trees and distant low ground.

1971 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing floodwater over rural fields, bare trees, utility lines, and a dark barn near the water. — A dark barn stands beside floodwater spreading across a rural field.

1971 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing submerged rural ground, a barn near the right side, bare trees, and distant hills under a pale sky. — Floodwater surrounds low farmland near a dark barn and bare tree line.

1971 Wisconsin 8mm frame showing slow flood currents, a partially surrounded barn, bare trees, and utility wires across rural land. — The final view holds on slow floodwater around a rural barn and tree-lined shore.

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