North Dakota-1972: A Peaceful Calm Day In North Dakota

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationNorth Dakota, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 North Dakota

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A Peaceful Calm Day In North Dakota — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside view in North Dakota. The clip shows a calm body of water under a dramatic, cloud-filled sky, with rolling green hills in the distance. A young tree stands in the foreground, and a wooden dock extends into the water. The footage has a classic Super 8 color palette with natural film grain and slight vignetting, evoking a nostalgic, peaceful summer day. The camera remains mostly still, offering a quiet, contemplative moment of nature.

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: 125777595

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1972 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: North Dakota, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm home-movie lakeside scenery for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a quiet rural North Dakota nature cutaway.
Period detail: The 1972 date is supported by metadata, while the visible scene itself shows timeless rural lakeside details rather than distinctive fashions, vehicles, signage, or buildings.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged home-movie pause on water, sky, dock, hills, and a foreground tree, suggesting a quiet scenic observation rather than a planned travel shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake, cloud-filled sky, rolling green hills, a small tree, shoreline vegetation, dock sections, poles, and dark 8mm frame edges.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm color, visible grain, slight vignetting, gate-edge darkness, and modest exposure shifts that give the landscape a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a reflective insert, rural transition, place-setting cutaway, or memory beat between family, travel, or Great Plains landscape scenes.
Historical context: As visual context, the clip shows an early-1970s home-movie view of a quiet North Dakota lakeside landscape without visible people, traffic, or commercial development.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1972 North Dakota 8mm lake view, 1970s home movie rural waterfront, calm Great Plains landscape, and vintage film cloudy sky cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1972 North Dakota lake or rural scenery, then with broader peaceful nature or home-movie travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 North Dakota 8mm frame showing a calm lake below heavy clouds, with distant hills, a young tree, dock sections, and dark film edges. — A quiet lakeside view with rolling hills and a cloud-filled sky.

1972 North Dakota 8mm frame of a still lake and low green hills, with a foreground tree, dock pieces, poles, and dramatic cloud cover. — The camera holds on the lake as clouds gather over low green hills.

1972 North Dakota 8mm frame with a leafy tree centered before a calm lake, distant hills, cloud cover, and small waterfront structures. — A leafy tree fills the foreground against the calm lake and distant shore.

1972 North Dakota 8mm frame showing a foreground lakeside tree, broad water, low hills, dock railings, and textured cloud cover. — The final frame keeps the lakeside tree and dock in view beneath a layered sky.

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