Wyoming-1951: The Coast Of A Lake With A Field Of Grass And Some Mountain Ranges

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The Coast Of A Lake With A Field Of Grass And Some... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1951, this vintage home movie captures a serene lakeside view from a window frame. The scene features a calm lake with gentle waves lapping a grassy shore, bordered by evergreen trees. In the distance, layered mountain ranges rise under an overcast sky, creating a peaceful, natural landscape. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and muted colors typical of mid-century home movies. This archival clip evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K Digitally Restored
License: Royalty-Free Direct from Stockfilm
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127665638

Rights & Clearance

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 (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Location: Wyoming, United States Estimated (Based on visual or technical evidence.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no independent reel-level note corroborates it.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1950s Wyoming 8mm home-movie lake scenery for documentary cutaways, regional travel context, or quiet natural transition shots.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-century amateur travel filming, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, or signage to refine the date beyond the supplied 1951 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a visitor pausing at a lakeshore or through a dark frame, recording water, grass, trees, and distant mountains without staging.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rippled lake, grassy shoreline, scattered rocks, evergreen trees, distant mountain ridges, overcast sky, and dark window-like borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet landscape insert, a travel-memory cutaway, or a transition between Wyoming outdoor scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents a recreational view of lake and mountain landscape in Wyoming, with emphasis on scenery rather than identifiable human activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location-specific property or access questions.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1951 Wyoming lake home movie, 1950s 8mm mountain landscape, vintage lakeshore footage, and home-movie water cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Wyoming 1951 scenes, then 1950s lake, mountain, shoreline, and nature travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame showing a grassy lakeshore, rippled water, evergreen edge, rocks, and distant mountain ridges. — Grassy lakeshore and distant mountains viewed through a dark frame.

1951 Wyoming lakeside view with grass along the shore, small rocks near the water, trees at the edge, and mountains beyond the lake. — Ruffled lake and grassy bank with mountains across the water.

1951 Wyoming 8mm frame looking along a grassy lake edge with rocks in the foreground and a soft mountain ridge across the water. — Low view along the grassy lake edge with rocks and distant ridge.

1951 Wyoming frame showing open lake water and a hazy mountain range across the far shore, with film dust visible in the sky area. — Hazy mountain range across open lake water.

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