Grand Teton Wyoming USA-1980: Swans and Ducks on Mountain Lake on Sunny Day

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

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Swans and Ducks on Mountain Lake on Sunny Day — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1980 showing two white swans feeding on a calm mountain lake in Grand Teton, Wyoming. The scene is viewed through a dark frame, likely a window, with lush green lily pads in the foreground and dense pine forests lining the shoreline. Distant mountains rise under a bright, sunny sky with scattered clouds. The swans glide gracefully across the water, accompanied by smaller ducks. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic, authentic home movie aesthetic.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 122863500

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 or travel edits needing calm 8mm wildlife footage from Grand Teton, Wyoming, with swans, ducks, lake plants, forest, and mountain background.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color home-movie texture and the 1980 metadata, while the landscape itself appears timeless and does not show date-specific objects.
Home-movie behavior: The scene has a patient visitor-shot viewpoint, framed through a dark foreground opening while the camera watches birds feeding and drifting across the lake.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include white swans, smaller ducks, calm lake water, lily pads or aquatic plants, pine-covered shoreline, distant mountains, pale sky, and a dark window-like frame.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm grain, mild color fade, slight exposure variation, and a home-movie scan feel that supports an archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet wildlife cutaway, scenic insert, transition into a mountain-lake sequence, or reflective memory beat.
Historical context: The clip documents a leisure or travel view of wildlife in a protected mountain-lake setting, without visible people, vehicles, buildings, or signage in these frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, wildlife context, and location or property permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1980 8mm Grand Teton lake swans, vintage Wyoming wildlife footage, mountain lake birds, home movie nature cutaway, and archival swans feeding.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1980 Grand Teton or Wyoming lake scenes, then broader 8mm wildlife and mountain-landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1980 8mm view in Grand Teton, Wyoming, showing swans and ducks on a mountain lake, framed by dark foreground edges and a forested shoreline. — Swans and ducks drift near lily pads on a calm mountain lake below a pine-covered shore.

Grand Teton, Wyoming lake scene from 1980 8mm footage with white swans, smaller ducks, shoreline vegetation, forest, and hazy mountains. — Birds move across still water with aquatic plants in the foreground and mountains beyond the trees.

Vintage 8mm frame from Grand Teton, Wyoming, showing swans and ducks feeding or drifting near lily pads on a bright mountain lake. — A swan and smaller birds remain near the lake plants as the wooded mountain backdrop fills the horizon.

Close 1980 8mm view of swans and ducks near lake vegetation in Grand Teton, Wyoming, backed by forest, grasses, and distant mountains. — Two swans pass near smaller ducks at the edge of lily pads, with a green shoreline and mountains behind.

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