Tel Aviv Israel-1972: Mountains By A Lake

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Mountains By A Lake — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1972, showing a serene landscape of calm blue water with distant mountains under a hazy sky. The grainy, slightly faded color palette and soft focus evoke a nostalgic, retro feel. A few birds fly across the frame, adding subtle motion to the tranquil scene. The footage captures the quiet beauty of nature with authentic film grain and edge distortion typical of 8mm home movies from the era. Ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring 1970s Israel.

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: 120912955

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 home-movie landscape footage suited for documentary inserts, geographic transitions, or archival atmosphere around Israel travel and regional water-and-mountain scenery.
Period detail: The footage may show a 1972 visitor-shot view near Tel Aviv, with only the faded color stock, soft focus, and 8mm frame edges providing visible era clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the quiet observational quality of a traveler pausing on open water and distant hills rather than staging an event or filming people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, a hazy mountain or hill ridge, pale sky, slight horizon softness, dark film-frame borders, and occasional dust or speckling from the scan.
Film character: The material carries authentic 8mm texture through soft focus, muted blue and beige color, visible grain, gate edges, and small exposure variations across the contact-sheet frames.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm establishing insert, reflective cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between archival scenes with a similar 1970s home-movie tone.
Historical context: The frames provide visual context for leisure or travel filming in Israel without showing people, architecture, landmarks, or identifiable social activity.
Research note: No people, logos, audible music, or obvious private property are visible, but users should still clear copyright in the underlying film scan and confirm location claims against production records.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1972 Israel 8mm landscape, Tel Aviv home movie water and mountains, vintage travel footage lake, and 1970s hazy mountain shoreline.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1972 Tel Aviv or Israel travel footage, and finally with broader 1970s water, mountain, and quiet landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 8mm home-movie frame associated with Tel Aviv, Israel, showing calm water and a distant low mountain ridge beneath a hazy sky. — Distant hills across calm water.

Vintage 8mm frame from the 1972 Israel footage showing a broad water surface and muted hills along the far horizon, with visible gate edges and grain. — Hazy ridge beyond open water.

1972 home-movie landscape frame associated with Tel Aviv, Israel, with still water in the foreground and a subdued mountain ridge in the distance. — Still water and low mountains.

End frame of the 1972 8mm Israel landscape clip, showing a quiet water view with distant hills softened by haze and film grain. — Quiet water view with softened hills.

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