Grand Teton Wyoming USA-1980: Butterfly with Patterned Wings Rests on Purple Flower

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Year1980
Decade1980s
LocationGrand Teton, Wyoming, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1980 Grand Teton Wyoming

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Butterfly with Patterned Wings Rests on Purple Flower — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Grand Teton Wyoming USA in 1980 captures a serene natural scene. The clip opens on a lush green meadow filled with wildflowers, including prominent purple blooms, under bright daylight. The camera remains steady, focusing on the vibrant flora. In the final frames, a butterfly with patterned wings is observed resting on a tall flower stalk, its wings slightly flapping. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: soft focus, natural color saturation, and subtle grain, evoking a nostalgic, peaceful atmosphere of a summer day in the American West.

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: 122860100

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: Grand Teton, 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: Useful for 1980s nature-documentary inserts, regional archive sequences, and quiet editorial cutaways needing home-movie views of wildflowers and insect life in Grand Teton, Wyoming.
Period detail: The frames mainly show meadow plants and a butterfly, with the 1980 date and Grand Teton location supported by clip metadata rather than visible signage or landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on a patch of wildflowers before moving to a closer butterfly view, reflecting an unstaged visitor’s attention to small natural details.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include sunlit green meadow growth, purple wildflowers, tall flower stalks, darker tree-line shadows, soft foliage, and a butterfly in the final frame.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, saturated greens, uneven exposure, frame-edge darkness, and gentle grain that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm nature cutaway, seasonal transition, or memory beat between broader Grand Teton or travel-footage scenes.
Historical context: The clip offers a home-movie view of observing meadow ecology during a 1980 visit to Grand Teton, without visible people, buildings, vehicles, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still confirm copyright licensing and any location or ecological-use requirements for their project.
Research search match: Searches such as 1980s 8mm Grand Teton meadow, Wyoming wildflowers home movie, butterfly on flower archival footage, and Super 8 nature cutaway may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1980 Grand Teton material, then broader Wyoming nature, wildflower, butterfly, or quiet travel-memory footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1980 Grand Teton home-movie frame showing a green meadow patch with purple wildflowers and shaded trees in the background. — A bright meadow view shows dense greenery and purple blooms near a shaded tree line.

Grand Teton, Wyoming meadow vegetation appears in a soft 8mm frame with purple blooms and tall flower stalks under daylight. — The camera holds on the meadow plants and clusters of purple flowers.

1980 Grand Teton footage shows leafy meadow growth, purple wildflowers, and a darker wooded backdrop in soft 8mm color. — Leafy meadow growth fills the frame, with purple flowers scattered across the lower foreground.

A patterned butterfly rests on a tall flower stalk in Grand Teton, Wyoming, seen in close soft-focus 8mm footage from 1980. — A butterfly is visible on a flower stalk, separated from the meadow by shallow focus.

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