North Dakota-1972: Red And White Communications Tower Rises Above Trees

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

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Red And White Communications Tower Rises Above Trees — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a tall red-and-white striped communications tower rising against a cloudy sky. The camera slowly tilts downward, revealing a line of green trees at the base of the structure. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and subtle film imperfections, evoking a nostalgic mid-20th century American landscape. The tower stands as a prominent piece of mid-century technology, likely used for broadcasting or radar, set in an open rural environment. This archival clip offers authentic period footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 125777818

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 for 1970s North Dakota archival requests needing a rural communications technology cutaway or atmospheric broadcast-infrastructure insert.
Period detail: The red-and-white lattice tower, open sky, tree line, and faded 8mm color may show a rural early-1970s communications or broadcast structure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an observational home-movie perspective, with the camera lingering on a distant tower rather than staging action or identifying a site.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a striped tower mast, cloudy sky, dark film borders, green trees, soft horizon line, and mild frame jitter.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, gate edges, and small specks that support its physical-film archive character.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, location transition, technology insert, or quiet memory beat within a rural 1970s sequence.
Historical context: The scene places communications infrastructure within an open North Dakota landscape without identifying the tower, owner, or exact use.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but tower identity, land ownership, copyright, and any property permissions should be checked for intended use.
Research search match: Search matches include 1972 North Dakota communications tower, rural red and white broadcast mast, 8mm tower footage, and 1970s technology cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel material, then other North Dakota 1972 rural views, then broader 1970s infrastructure or communications imagery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 North Dakota 8mm frame showing a striped communications tower against a cloudy sky, with film gate edges visible. — A red-and-white communications tower stands against a cloudy sky.

Striped communications tower in a cloudy North Dakota sky, recorded on faded 8mm home-movie film. — The tower remains centered as the camera holds on the cloudy sky.

1972 8mm view of a red-and-white tower extending above green trees in rural North Dakota. — The downward tilt reveals trees at the base of the tower.

North Dakota home-movie frame showing the tower behind treetops, with muted 8mm color and visible grain. — Treetops fill the lower frame while the tower continues upward into the sky.

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