British Columbia USA-1981: Lake Surrounded By Tree Covered Mountains

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Year1981
Decade1980s
LocationBritish Columbia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1981 British Columbia

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Lake Surrounded By Tree Covered Mountains — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1981 capturing a serene mountain lake in British Columbia, USA. The clip features a wide, panoramic view of a deep blue lake surrounded by rugged, tree-covered mountains under a clear sky. A dam structure is visible along the shoreline, and the natural landscape is framed by evergreen trees in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight vignetting, with a bird briefly flying across the frame. This authentic archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of 1980s outdoor scenery, perfect for documentaries, historical content, or retro-themed projects.

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: 122870983

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 1795 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: august,VII-8
Reel-level year note: 1981
Reel-level location note: hooper lake, british columbia
Date: 1981 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: British Columbia, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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: 1981 8mm mountain-lake footage suited to documentary inserts, landscape transitions, and archive requests for North American outdoor travel scenery.
Period detail: The frames may show early-1980s amateur travel filming, with era clues coming mainly from the 8mm stock, color palette, and handheld scenic framing.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves a visitor's overlook view, holding on the lake, dam, evergreens, and distant mountains without staging or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue lake, forested slopes, rocky foreground, evergreen trees, distant mountain ridges, a shoreline dam, pale sky, and film gate edges.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, vignetting, and contact-print borders that support its home-movie archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic cutaway, travel-memory beat, establishing insert, or quiet transition between outdoor or regional archive sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents recreational viewing of a mountain reservoir or lake landscape, with built shoreline infrastructure set inside a largely natural setting.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed by the buyer.
Research search match: Searches such as 1981 8mm mountain lake, British Columbia home movie scenery, dam and lake overlook, or vintage evergreen mountain landscape may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1981 British Columbia or listed-location lake footage, then with broader vintage mountain scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1981 8mm frame of a blue mountain lake with evergreen trees in the foreground, distant ridges, and a visible dam structure on the shoreline. — Wide overlook of a mountain lake, shoreline dam, evergreens, and distant ridges.

1981 8mm view across a mountain lake toward forested ridges, with a dam on the left shoreline and evergreens framing the lower edge. — Lake panorama with forested mountains, shoreline dam, and evergreen foreground.

1981 8mm frame showing a lake below tree-covered mountains, with conifers in the foreground and a dam or bridge-like structure near shore. — Foreground conifers look over a lake, dam structure, and rugged mountain backdrop.

1981 8mm frame of a mountain lake in a wooded overlook, with branches at the edge, a shoreline dam, and layered ridges in the distance. — Tree-framed view of the lake, dam, forested slopes, and distant mountain ridges.

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