British Columbia USA-1981: Red Butterfly On A Yellow Flower On A Sunny Day Of

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

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Red Butterfly On A Yellow Flower On A Sunny Day Of — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1981 captures a delicate orange and black patterned butterfly perched on a bright yellow flower with slender petals. The butterfly flutters gently, its wings displaying intricate spots as it feeds on nectar. The scene unfolds in a lush green garden with soft-focus foliage in the background, bathed in natural sunlight. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight motion blur, evoking a nostalgic, authentic 1980s home movie aesthetic. The clip ends with a black frame, typical of old film reels.

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: 122875748

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 nature footage suited to documentary cutaways, seasonal inserts, garden ecology sequences, or nostalgic home-movie texture.
Period detail: The frames show no built environment or datable objects, so the 1981 period attribution rests on supplied clip metadata and the 8mm film character.
Home-movie behavior: The close, steady attention to a butterfly feeding on a flower gives the clip the observational value of an unstaged home-movie nature moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include an orange spotted butterfly, a yellow daisy-like flower, green leaves, soft background stems, sunlight, and black film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, saturated greens and yellows, soft focus, slight motion blur, and contact-sheet frame edges as archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a nature cutaway, seasonal transition, quiet memory beat, or brief insert between broader 1980s outdoor scenes.
Historical context: The clip documents a small garden or wildflower encounter rather than a public event, with visual context limited to butterfly, flower, foliage, and sunlight.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, species identification, and location metadata should still be checked before use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1981 8mm butterfly on yellow flower, vintage home movie garden nature, and Super 8 style close-up insect footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel nature shots, then with 1981 British Columbia-listed outdoor material, then with butterfly, flower, garden, or summer cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1981 8mm frame of an orange and black spotted butterfly on a yellow flower, with green foliage behind it. — A butterfly rests on a yellow flower in a sunlit patch of foliage.

A supplied 1981 8mm frame shows a spotted butterfly feeding on a yellow flower, with soft green leaves in the background. — The butterfly opens its wings while perched on the flower head.

Close 8mm view of a spotted orange butterfly on a yellow flower, framed by soft green vegetation and film grain. — A closer frame emphasizes the butterfly's spotted wings and the flower center.

Soft final 8mm frame of the butterfly still on the yellow flower, partly darkened by exposure and frame edge shadow. — The final frame darkens as the butterfly remains on the flower.

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