Florida-1941: Autumn Foliage Reflecting in a Calm Lake

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Year1941
Decade1940s
LocationFlorida, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1941 Florida

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Autumn Foliage Reflecting in a Calm Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1941, this vintage home movie captures a serene Florida lakeside scene with vibrant red and yellow autumn foliage reflecting in calm water. The footage shows a tranquil forest edge with tall trees and colorful shrubs, filmed with a slightly shaky, handheld perspective typical of Super 8 home movies. The image exhibits classic 8mm film grain, color shifts, and a soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. This natural landscape clip offers authentic period footage for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127270749

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 1673 · 8mm · 5″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1941
Reel-level location note: florida
Date: 1941 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: Florida, 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: 1940s Florida home-movie nature footage for productions needing a brief archival lakeside foliage insert or calm seasonal landscape cutaway.
Period detail: The frames show color 8mm footage of ornamental-looking red and yellow foliage beside water, with no visible signs, buildings, vehicles, clothing, or dated objects beyond the supplied 1941 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the quiet observational feel of a home-movie camera lingering on a scenic lakeshore rather than documenting a staged event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm lake water, red flowering or leafy shrubs, yellow-green foliage, tree trunks, wooded shoreline, reflections, soft focus, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm archival texture through soft focus, visible grain, muted color shifts, slight handheld instability, and uneven frame-edge exposure.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a tranquil transition, nature cutaway, seasonal memory beat, or visual pause between more specific Florida or family-reel scenes.
Historical context: The scene offers a period home-movie view of landscaped or natural Florida waterside vegetation without visible people, built structures, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private-property interiors are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related concerns should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1941 Florida 8mm lake foliage, 1940s home movie autumn color, vintage lakeside reflections, and archival garden water scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1941 Florida material, then broader 1940s home-movie nature, lake, garden, or foliage footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1941 Florida 8mm frame showing red lakeside foliage, tree trunks, and soft reflections on still water. — Red foliage and trees line the far bank of a calm lake.

1941 Florida home-movie view of red shrubs on a wooded shore with their color mirrored in the lake. — A band of red shoreline foliage reflects across the water.

Soft 8mm frame from 1941 Florida showing red lakeside vegetation, trees, and muted reflections in dark water. — Red shrubs sit at the wooded edge of the lake.

1941 Florida 8mm view of mixed yellow and red foliage beside water, framed by tree trunks and branches. — Mixed yellow and red foliage appears beyond the lakeside trees.

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