Western USA-1980: Small River With Grass Surrounding And There Is A Hill With

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

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Small River With Grass Surrounding And There Is A Hill With — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from the Western USA in 1980, capturing a serene natural landscape. The clip opens on a wide shot of a grassy field with a wooden fence in the foreground, leading to a large hill or mountain under a clear blue sky. The scene transitions to a calm river or pond, its surface reflecting the surrounding trees and sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: warm color tones, noticeable grain, and a slightly soft focus, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The camera appears to be handheld, with subtle movement between shots.

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: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122822985

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: 1980 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: 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1980s Western USA editorial requests needing quiet 8mm landscape material, rural nature inserts, or non-urban home-movie atmosphere.
Period detail: The footage may show a late-20th-century rural setting, with a simple wooden fence, open grassland, and unpaved natural riverbank rather than identifiable modern infrastructure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged traveler or family-camera viewpoint, pausing on scenery for memory rather than documenting a named landmark.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grassy field, wooden fence rails, dark hill or mountain ridge, clear sky, reflective river or pond, shrubs, and tree-lined banks.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows warm color, visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that signal original home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, transitional landscape insert, reflective memory beat, or establishing fragment for rural Western USA nature coverage.
Historical context: The scene documents ordinary outdoor landscape viewing in home-movie form, emphasizing open land, water, and vegetation without visible people or public activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private structures are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property context should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1980 8mm Western USA landscape, rural grass field and hill, reflective river or pond, vintage home movie nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Western USA 1980 landscape material, then with broader vintage 8mm rural nature and water scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1980 Western USA 8mm frame showing grassland, fence rails, and a dark hill or mountain ridge beneath clear sky. — Wide rural landscape with fence, field, and hill in soft 8mm color.

Western USA home-movie frame from 1980 with a fenced grassy field leading toward a dark hill or mountain ridge. — Fenced grassland and hill held in a steady scenic view.

1980 Western USA 8mm frame showing still water bordered by shrubs and grass, reflecting the sky and tree line. — Reflective river or pond bordered by bright grass and shrubs.

Western USA 1980 home-movie frame of a calm river or pond with vegetation mirrored across the water surface. — Still water mirrors the surrounding bank vegetation and sky.

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