Wyoming-1951: Calm Lake with Distant Hills

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Year1951
Decade1950s
LocationWyoming, United States
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1951 Wyoming

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Calm Lake with Distant Hills — Clip Details

WYOMING-1951: A serene 8mm home movie view of a calm lake framed by dark borders, likely from a window or viewing device. The scene features gentle ripples on the water's surface, a grassy shoreline on the left, and distant tree-covered hills under an overcast sky. The vintage film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and soft focus typical of 1950s Super 8 footage. The camera remains steady, capturing the quiet beauty of a peaceful day in nature.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127665622

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: Wyoming, 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 Wyoming home-movie lake view suited to documentary inserts needing quiet landscape atmosphere, travel memory, or rural outdoor context.
Period detail: The scene may show a mid-century home-movie view of a Wyoming lake, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, signage, or landmarks to narrow the date beyond the supplied 1951 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The steady framing and repeated shoreline view suggest an amateur camera lingering on scenery rather than recording a staged event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled lake water, a grassy shoreline, dark film-frame borders, distant wooded hills, a pale overcast sky, and a tree edge at left.
Film character: The footage carries soft focus, muted color, visible grain, dust specks, and dark gate edges consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm cutaway, passage-of-time insert, travel transition, or reflective memory beat between more active scenes.
Historical context: As visual context, the clip records a quiet outdoor lake setting in Wyoming without visible development, people, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, brands, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright provenance and location identification before publication.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1951 Wyoming lake footage, 1950s 8mm landscape, vintage home movie water view, overcast lake shore, and distant hills.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other Wyoming 1951 outdoor footage, then broader 1950s lake, forest, and travel-memory scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame showing rippled lake water, a grassy shore at left, distant hills, and muted overcast sky. — A quiet lake view framed by dark 8mm gate edges, with shoreline grass and low hills beyond the water.

1951 Wyoming lake view with soft focus, dark frame borders, a narrow grassy bank, and low hills under gray sky. — The lake stretches toward a dark tree line and low hills, with the shore partly visible along the left edge.

1951 Wyoming home-movie frame of a lake beside a grassy bank, with far hills and visible film grain. — A soft, muted frame holds on the lake and sloped shoreline, with hills faintly visible across the water.

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame showing rippled lake water, small shoreline rocks, grass, and distant hills in soft focus. — Small rocks appear near the shoreline as the lake continues toward a low, hazy line of hills.

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