British Columbia USA-1981: Rocks Settled In The Lake And Yellow Flower Bushes

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

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Rocks Settled In The Lake And Yellow Flower Bushes — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1981 captures a serene mountain lake in British Columbia, USA. The clip opens on large, weathered rocks partially submerged in calm, clear water, with a rocky shoreline and evergreen trees in the background. The scene transitions to a vibrant meadow of yellow wildflowers swaying gently in the breeze, with the lake and forested hills visible beyond. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color saturation, and slight camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, personal travel memory from 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: 122878668

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 home-movie requests needing a quiet mountain lake, shoreline rocks, and wildflower meadow cutaway for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The 8mm color, saturated greens and yellows, and handheld travel framing support an early-1980s home-movie reading, with location taken from supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor perspective, lingering on lake rocks before shifting to nearby yellow wildflowers as a personal travel observation.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include clear lake water, partly submerged boulders, rocky shore, evergreen trees, yellow wildflowers, meadow grass, and distant forested slopes.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus, saturated color, slight gate weave, and handheld steadiness typical of scanned home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a nature insert, quiet transition, travel-memory beat, or environmental cutaway between broader mountain or lake scenes.
Historical context: The views suggest recreational outdoor travel and landscape filming in the early 1980s without showing people, vehicles, buildings, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private structures are visible, but copyright, location accuracy, and any land-use context should still be checked before licensing.
Research search match: Good match for searches such as 1981 8mm mountain lake rocks, British Columbia home movie wildflowers, vintage lake shoreline, and yellow wildflower meadow footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with clips labeled the same location and year, then with 1980s lake, meadow, rocks, and wildflower themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1981 8mm frame of partly submerged boulders in a calm mountain lake, with rocky shore and evergreens beyond. — Boulders rest in shallow lake water near a rocky, tree-lined shore.

Mountain lake view from supplied British Columbia metadata, showing shallow water, large shoreline rocks, and evergreen trees on 8mm film. — A large boulder sits in calm water near a stony forested shoreline.

1981 home-movie frame of yellow wildflowers in the foreground with a blue lake and rocky forest edge behind. — Yellow wildflowers fill the lakeside foreground with blue water beyond.

Lakeside meadow in 1981 8mm footage, with yellow wildflowers, green grasses, blue water, and trees in the background. — A lakeside patch of yellow flowers appears against water and forest.

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