Baltimore Maryland-1961: Extended View Of A Lake With A Large Forest In The Background

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Year1961
Decade1960s
LocationBaltimore, Maryland, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1960 Baltimore Maryland

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Extended View Of A Lake With A Large Forest In The... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1961, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside view from a window frame. The scene features a calm blue lake with a tree-covered island in the distance, surrounded by a dense forest. White buoys float on the water, and a grassy shoreline is visible in the foreground. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic 1960s aesthetic, evoking a peaceful summer day. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring mid-century American life.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127475545

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: 1961 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: Baltimore, Maryland, 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

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: 1960s 8mm home-movie lakeside footage for editors needing a quiet exterior establishing view, vacation memory beat, or regional water-and-woods cutaway.
Period detail: The 1961 metadata and soft color 8mm look support a mid-century home-movie context, while the view itself shows a lake, grassy shore, buoys, and distant tree-covered land without specific landmark evidence.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds a casual visitor or family-window viewpoint across the water, valuing the ordinary pause and scenery rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue lake, distant wooded island or shoreline, white buoys, grassy foreground, pale sky, and dark window-frame edges dividing the view.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm grain, slight color fading, soft focus, mild exposure variation, and a fixed home-movie composition that reads as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm insert, transition, reflective pause, or environmental cutaway within a sequence about travel, summer leisure, or remembered place.
Historical context: The clip visually situates mid-century leisure around a lakeside landscape, with distant swimmers or bathers suggested by small figures near the water but no identifiable activity details.
Research note: People are small and not identifiable in these frames, but likeness review may still be needed; no logos or readable marks are visible, and copyright clearance is separate from location or privacy review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1961 8mm lake view, Baltimore Maryland home movie water scene, vintage lakeside vacation footage, and 1960s shoreline cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Baltimore or Maryland 1961 material, then with other 1960s home-movie lake, shoreline, vacation, and water-view scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1961 Baltimore-area 8mm frame showing a calm lake through a window frame, with distant wooded land, white buoys, and grass in the foreground. — A quiet lake view is framed by dark vertical edges, with wooded land across the water and buoys near the shore.

1961 Baltimore-area home-movie frame of a blue lake and distant tree-covered land, partly divided by a dark window or door frame. — The camera holds on a broad lake surface with distant trees and scattered white buoys near the grassy edge.

1961 Baltimore-area 8mm view across a lake, with a distant wooded shore, small shoreline figures, buoys, and grass below. — Small figures appear near the shoreline beneath a distant wooded band across the lake.

1961 Baltimore-area home-movie frame showing a calm lake, distant wooded shoreline, small people near the water, buoys, and grass. — The lake view continues with distant wooded land to the right and small figures near the waterline.

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