North Dakota-1972: Parkland with Trees and Picnic Tables on Shore

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

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Parkland with Trees and Picnic Tables on Shore — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside park in North Dakota. The view, framed by a dark border, shows a calm body of water with two young trees in the foreground and rolling green hills in the background under a cloudy sky. Picnic tables and white posts line the grassy shore, suggesting a quiet recreational spot. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic 1970s Americana atmosphere. The camera pans slowly across the landscape, revealing more of the tranquil setting and distant structures.

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: 125777609

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 8mm landscape footage for documentary cutaways, regional travel context, rural recreation sequences, or quiet Americana transitions.
Period detail: The 1972 home-movie metadata and visible picnic tables, simple shoreline posts, young trees, and saturated 8mm color may show a small public recreation area of the period.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor viewpoint, with the camera calmly panning across water, trees, grassy parkland, and distant rolling hills.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad waterway, green rolling hills, young shoreline trees, picnic tables, white marker posts, grass, cloudy sky, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has a soft 8mm home-movie texture with visible grain, saturated greens, mild exposure variation, and handheld framing through the contact-sheet scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, geography-establishing cutaway, reflective memory beat, or transition between rural travel and outdoor recreation scenes.
Historical context: The scene suggests quiet public leisure space in North Dakota, emphasizing open water, maintained grass, picnic seating, and undeveloped hills rather than urban activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-use questions should still be reviewed before licensing.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1972 North Dakota 8mm lake park, vintage home movie rolling hills, rural picnic area by water, and 1970s American parkland footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1972 North Dakota footage, then broader 1970s rural park, lake, river, and rolling-hill material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 North Dakota 8mm frame showing a grassy lakeside park, small trees, picnic tables, white posts, broad water, and rolling hills. — Grassy shoreline park with young trees and picnic tables beside water and distant hills.

1972 North Dakota home-movie frame with leafy foreground branches, a lakeside picnic area, water, white posts, and green hills beyond. — Foreground branches frame a quiet picnic area along the water with hills across the shore.

1972 North Dakota 8mm view of a leafy tree over a grassy shore with picnic tables, white posts, water, and rolling hills. — A leafy shoreline tree stands over picnic tables beside the water and open hills.

1972 North Dakota home-movie frame showing water and rolling hills, with a motion-blurred tree, grassy shoreline posts, and a small signboard. — The camera pan blurs a shoreline tree as water, grassy banks, posts, and hills remain visible.

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