British Columbia USA-1981: Tall Pine Tree In Forest Area

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

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Tall Pine Tree In Forest Area — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1981 capturing a tall pine tree in British Columbia, Canada. The clip shows the tree's weathered trunk and branches against a clear blue sky, with some foliage appearing dry or damaged. The camera tilts upward, revealing the full height of the tree and surrounding forest. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: warm color grading, slight grain, and natural film imperfections. This authentic archival material offers a nostalgic glimpse of nature in the early 1980s, ideal for historical or environmental storytelling.

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: 122871260

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 home-movie forest footage suited to documentary cutaways, environmental memory sequences, or period travel inserts involving British Columbia-labelled woodland scenery.
Period detail: The footage may show early 1980s visitor-shot outdoor travel material, with tall conifers, dry branches, clear sky, and a small red-clad figure visible in one frame.
Home-movie behavior: The camera studies a tall tree from below in an informal handheld way, suggesting a visitor pausing to record an unusual or weathered forest subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall pine trunks, sparse upper branches, blue sky, surrounding conifers, forest floor, pale rocks or ground cover, and a red-clad person at the edge of one frame.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, warm color, visible grain, gate edges, and contact-sheet framing that give the clip recognizable home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief nature cutaway, upward-looking forest insert, transition beat, or quiet memory detail within travel or environmental material.
Historical context: The scene offers a small-scale record of recreational or observational filming in a conifer forest, without enough visible evidence to identify a specific site or event.
Research note: A person appears at the edge of one frame, so likeness review may be needed; no visible logos are apparent, and copyright clearance is separate from likeness or property review.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1981 8mm forest footage, British Columbia home movie trees, vintage pine tree cutaway, and Super 8 woodland travel scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other 1981 British Columbia-labelled outdoor clips, then similar 8mm forest, hiking, travel, or conifer landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1981 8mm frame of a tall pine tree viewed from below, with sparse branches silhouetted against blue sky. — A tall pine trunk rises into sparse upper branches under a clear sky.

Archival 8mm view of upper pine branches and dry-looking needles against a clear sky. — Sparse upper branches fill the frame as the camera looks into the canopy.

1981 home-movie frame showing the pine crown from a low angle, with branches spread across the sky. — The camera frames the upper crown of the tree from below.

1981 8mm forest frame with a tall weathered tree, surrounding conifers, rocky ground, and a red-clad person near the edge. — A weathered tree stands among conifers, with a red-clad person partly visible at lower right.

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