Tel Aviv Israel-1972: Desolate View Of Rolling Hills Connecting To Water

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Desolate View Of Rolling Hills Connecting To Water — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1972, showing a desolate landscape of rolling hills and a vast body of water. The grainy, slightly faded color palette captures the nostalgic feel of a classic Super 8 film, with a steady, wide shot across the shoreline. The scene features a calm, expansive water surface meeting a dry, grassy hillside under a hazy sky, evoking a sense of quiet isolation. The film's natural grain and soft focus enhance its authentic, archival quality, making it ideal for historical or documentary projects.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120912905

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: 1972 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: Tel Aviv, Israel 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm travel or home-movie footage suited to documentary uses needing a quiet shoreline landscape, arid hills, or regional establishing cutaway connected to Israel.
Period detail: The frames show soft color 8mm imagery with broad water, dry rolling hills, and a hazy sky, while the 1972 Tel Aviv, Israel identification comes from supplied clip metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an unstaged traveler or home-movie viewpoint, holding on a distant landscape across water without people, narration, signage, or obvious tourist performance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm body of water, distant low hills, dry grassland or scrub-covered slopes, a pale hazy sky, shoreline bands, and occasional film-frame edges from the contact sheet.
Film character: The footage has a faded 8mm color palette, soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure variation, and steady wide framing that preserve the physical-film character of the original scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, reflective transition, geography cutaway, or memory beat between more specific travel or regional scenes.
Historical context: As visual context, the scene presents a sparsely populated shoreline and open terrain in supplied 1972 Israel footage without visible buildings, vehicles, people, or identifiable civic markers.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location identification, and any broader contextual claims still require normal archive clearance review.
Research search match: Researcher searches this may match include 1970s Israel 8mm shoreline landscape, Tel Aviv travel home movie water and hills, arid hills across lake, and vintage Super 8 desolate shoreline view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1972 Tel Aviv or Israel travel footage, and then with broader 1970s shoreline, arid landscape, or reflective travel cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Tel Aviv, Israel 8mm frame showing a wide view across calm water toward low dry hills under a pale hazy sky. — Wide shoreline view with distant rolling hills.

1972 Tel Aviv, Israel home-movie frame with a broad water surface, low rolling hills, and a faint shoreline beneath a hazy sky. — Distant hills across open water.

1972 Tel Aviv, Israel 8mm frame showing calm water in the foreground and muted hills beyond a thin shoreline. — Muted shoreline and low hills.

1972 Tel Aviv, Israel home-movie frame with calm water, layered distant hills, dry shoreline terrain, and a pale sky in faded 8mm color. — Layered hills beyond calm water.

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