Utah-1951: Wooden Pier into Foggy Lake

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Year1951
Decade1950s
LocationUtah, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Utah

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Wooden Pier into Foggy Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1951, this vintage home movie captures a quiet, foggy lakeside scene in Utah. A wooden pier extends into calm water, its silhouette framed by dark edges, likely viewed through a window. The atmosphere is hazy and melancholic, with distant mountains faintly visible through the mist. The footage shows natural film grain, slight blurriness, and subtle imperfections, evoking a sense of nostalgia and solitude. This archival clip offers a glimpse into mid-century Americana, perfect for historical documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 127552080

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: 1951 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: Utah, 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: 1950s 8mm Utah lake footage for productions needing a quiet establishing view, atmospheric water cutaway, or mid-century home-movie landscape insert.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century wooden lakeside dock, with no visible vehicles, clothing, signage, or architecture offering more specific dating clues beyond the supplied 1951 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds an unstaged visitor viewpoint on a distant dock through dark frame edges, valuing stillness, weather, and personal observation over action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden pier, calm lake water, vertical pilings, hazy distant mountains, pale sky, dark film borders, and faint shoreline structures.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, muted exposure, visible grain, gate edges, dust, and scratches that read as physical-film texture from an original home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an establishing insert, reflective transition, water-side cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a travel, family-history, or landscape sequence.
Historical context: The view places a small recreational dock within a foggy Utah lakeside setting, suggesting leisure infrastructure without showing people, boats, or identifiable activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable marks are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property permissions should still be reviewed before final use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1951 Utah 8mm lake dock, foggy pier home movie, vintage fishing dock footage, and 1950s quiet water landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Utah 1951 lake or travel footage, then with broader foggy water, dock, and reflective landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1951 Utah 8mm frame showing a wooden lakeside dock in foggy light, with calm water, pilings, and faint mountains beyond. — A wooden dock stretches into still, misty lake water.

1951 Utah home-movie frame with a dark-edged view of a quiet dock, pale lake water, and mountains softened by mist. — The dock silhouette stands against a fog-softened lake horizon.

1951 Utah 8mm frame showing the dock from a slightly lower composition, with pilings reflected in calm water and a hazy mountain backdrop. — A lower view emphasizes the dock supports over the quiet lake.

1951 Utah 8mm frame with a wooden dock crossing misty lake water, dark frame edges, and prominent film scratches over the image. — Film scratches pass over a quiet dock and foggy lake scene.

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