British Columbia USA-1981: Hike Through The Woods Yields A Bare Tall Tree

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

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Hike Through The Woods Yields A Bare Tall Tree — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1981 in British Columbia, USA, showing a hiker with a backpack navigating a rocky forest trail. The camera pans across a striking, bare, dead tree with twisted branches against a pale sky, surrounded by evergreen pines. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and slight motion blur, capturing a nostalgic moment of wilderness exploration. The scene transitions from the prominent dead tree to hikers moving through the rugged terrain, offering authentic archival footage of outdoor adventure in the early 1980s.

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: 122871274

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: Useful for 1980s archival requests needing home-movie wilderness hiking, backpack travel, or forest trail cutaways for documentary and education edits.
Period detail: The backpacks, casual trail clothing, 8mm color, and handheld framing may show an early 1980s recreational hiking scene in the location supplied by metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged trail-companion perspective, first lingering on a stark dead tree and then following hikers as they move over pale rock and fallen wood.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bare twisted tree, evergreen pines, pale sky, rocky ground, fallen logs, hikers, large backpacks, and a handheld forest trail view.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, grain, faded color, uneven exposure, gate edges, and handheld panning motion.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a nature-travel insert, a transition from landscape detail to human movement, or a memory beat in an outdoor recreation sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents informal backpack hiking through a wooded rocky area, with attention split between natural forms and companions moving through the terrain.
Research note: People are visible from a distance, so likeness review may be needed even without visible logos, private interiors, audible music, or identifiable property in these frames.
Research search match: Researchers may find this under 1981 8mm hiking footage, 1980s backpackers in woods, dead tree forest trail, rocky wilderness home movie, or vintage outdoor recreation.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with same supplied location and year material, then with 1980s hiking, backpacking, forest, and wilderness travel themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1981 8mm frame of a tall bare tree with twisted branches above a forested area, with pines and pale sky visible. — A dead, bare tree dominates the forest view before the hiking movement appears.

The handheld 8mm view pans across the tall dead tree, isolating its branches against sky and surrounding evergreens. — The camera studies the stark tree form against the sky and nearby pines.

Two distant hikers with large backpacks walk over rocky forest terrain in 1981 home-movie footage from the supplied location. — Backpackers pick their way across pale rock and fallen wood on the forest trail.

Two hikers seen from behind continue along uneven rocky woodland terrain, with fallen logs and pines around them. — The hikers continue away from the camera through the rugged wooded path.

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