Grand Teton Wyoming USA-1980: Beaver Dam on Lake with Distant Mountains

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

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Beaver Dam on Lake with Distant Mountains — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1980 capturing a serene natural landscape in Grand Teton, Wyoming. The clip shows a calm lake surrounded by lush green grass and reeds, with a prominent beaver dam constructed from sticks and branches in the foreground. The scene is bathed in bright daylight under a partly cloudy sky, with distant mountains visible in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics including natural color saturation, slight grain, and a subtle vignette effect from the camera's viewfinder. This authentic archival material offers a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife and wilderness 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: 122863793

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 documentary or museum edits needing quiet Grand Teton wetland scenery, beaver-dam habitat, or American West wilderness cutaways from home-movie 8mm footage.
Period detail: The frames may show 1980-era 8mm color home-movie photography, with no visible buildings, vehicles, clothing, signage, or other date-specific objects beyond the supplied year metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot observational perspective, holding on water, reeds, a stick dam, and distant mountains without staging, narration, or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm water channels, green marsh grass, reeds, a beaver dam of sticks and branches, distant tree lines, mountains, blue sky, and scattered clouds.
Film character: The footage shows saturated 8mm color, soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, slight vignette, and contact-sheet framing that reads as authentic scanned home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a natural-history insert, a quiet transition, an establishing cutaway for Grand Teton wetlands, or a memory beat in a 1980s travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene provides visual context for recreational home-movie documentation of protected mountain wetland landscapes in Wyoming, without showing people, structures, or identifiable events.
Research note: No people, logos, music, or private interiors are visible, but copyright, location representation, and any wildlife or land-use context should still be reviewed before publication.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1980 8mm Grand Teton wetland footage, Wyoming beaver dam home movie, vintage mountain lake reeds, and archival American West nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1980 Grand Teton or Wyoming footage, then broader 8mm wetland, mountain, lake, or beaver-habitat material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1980 Grand Teton 8mm frame showing marsh water, reeds, and a stick beaver dam in bright daylight. — Close view of a beaver dam across a marshy water channel.

Grand Teton wetland view with calm water, green reeds, and a beaver dam, recorded on 8mm home-movie film. — Reeds and water surround a low beaver dam in the marsh.

8mm Grand Teton frame of a wetland channel bordered by bright green grass and a branch-built dam. — A quiet marsh channel runs past grasses and a stick dam.

Wide 1980 Grand Teton wetland view with a beaver dam, lake, distant trees, mountains, blue sky, and clouds. — Wide view of a beaver dam and wetland with mountains beyond.

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