North Dakota-1972: A Peaceful View Of The Lake And Trees

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

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A Peaceful View Of The Lake And Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside view in North Dakota. The footage, framed by dark window edges, shows a calm body of water under a cloudy sky, with green trees and rolling hills in the background. A picnic table and small dock are visible along the shore, suggesting a quiet recreational spot. The natural, unfiltered look of the Super 8 film includes subtle grain and color shifts typical of the era, evoking a nostalgic, peaceful atmosphere.

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: 125777602

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: Useful 1970s North Dakota home-movie footage for documentary, museum, education, or commercial edits needing a quiet rural lakeside establishing view.
Period detail: The 8mm frame, soft color, shoreline picnic furniture, and simple lakeside overlook may show a modest early-1970s recreational setting rather than a developed resort scene.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a traveler or family member filming a calm view through dark foreground framing, lingering on water, trees, grass, and distant hills.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a lake, leafy shoreline trees, cloudy sky, rolling green hills, picnic tables, a small dock or railing, grass, and dark window-like frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through soft focus, visible grain, mild exposure fluctuation, slight color drift, and the gentle steadiness of a brief home-movie view.
Edit role: Editors could use this as a rural establishing shot, quiet transition, memory beat, or environmental cutaway for North Dakota travel, recreation, or family-history sequences.
Historical context: The scene visually suggests everyday outdoor leisure and open rural landscape in North Dakota, without enough evidence to identify the lake, property, or event shown.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or location permissions should still be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Likely search matches include 1972 8mm North Dakota lake view, 1970s home movie rural shoreline, cloudy lakeside trees, and vintage family travel scenery.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other North Dakota 1972 footage, then broader 1970s lake, picnic, rural landscape, and travel-home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 North Dakota 8mm view of a leafy tree by a lake, with distant green hills, cloudy sky, and dark window-like framing. — A leafy tree stands near the lakeshore, seen through dark vertical edges with hills beyond the water.

1972 North Dakota lakeside view with a large tree, calm water, rolling hills, cloudy sky, and a small dock or railing near shore. — A large tree fills the foreground while a calm lake and low green hills stretch behind it.

1972 North Dakota 8mm frame showing two shoreline trees, lake water, picnic table, grassy bank, cloudy sky, and rolling hills. — Two trees and a picnic table sit along the grassy edge of the lake under a cloudy sky.

1972 North Dakota home-movie view of a grassy lakeside area with two trees, picnic furniture, white posts, lake, and distant hills. — The view opens wider to a quiet recreation area with trees, picnic furniture, and lake water beyond.

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