British Columbia USA-1981: Bee Pollinating Yellow and White Flowers in Vintage 8mm Footage

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

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Bee Pollinating Yellow and White Flowers in Vintage 8mm... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1981 in British Columbia, USA, capturing a close-up of a bee pollinating vibrant yellow composite flowers and white spherical blooms amidst lush green foliage. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, warm color saturation, and natural daylight, with the bee actively moving between blossoms. The scene offers a nostalgic, intimate look at nature, with subtle camera movement and authentic film artifacts, perfect for documentaries, nature projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 122878108

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: Useful for 1980s 8mm nature cutaways showing bee pollination and garden wildflowers for documentary, education, or memory-sequence edits.
Period detail: The visible clues are primarily the 8mm color home-movie texture, with no dated objects, landmarks, people, or signage visible in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie perspective, lingering close to flowers as a bee moves among blossoms in natural daylight.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include yellow daisy-like flowers, white spherical blooms, green leaves and stems, a purple flower, a bee, dark background foliage, and film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows saturated color, soft close-focus detail, handheld framing, visible grain, and slight exposure variation typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short nature insert, seasonal transition, pollination cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a home-movie or environmental sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a close garden or wildflower observation rather than a public event, with the catalog metadata placing the footage in 1981.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific use should still be verified separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1981 8mm bee pollination footage, vintage home movie flowers, yellow wildflowers with bee, and close-up garden nature film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1981 material catalogued to the same location, then with other vintage flower or pollinator footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Catalogued 1981 8mm close-up of a bee moving among yellow composite flowers, white spherical blooms, green leaves, and a purple flower. — Bee visits clustered yellow and white blossoms in a close garden shot.

Close 8mm frame of a bee near yellow blossoms and white round blooms, with leafy stems and a purple flower in the background. — The bee remains near the flower cluster as the handheld frame holds close.

Vintage 8mm frame showing a bee on clustered pale blooms beside yellow flowers, green stems, leaves, and a purple blossom. — Bee activity continues across the clustered blossoms and surrounding foliage.

Later 8mm frame with dense yellow daisy-like flowers and green foliage, with any bee activity less distinct in the soft close-up. — The view shifts to a denser cluster of yellow flowers near the end of the clip.

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