British Columbia USA-1981: Metal Object Found In A Rock

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

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Metal Object Found In A Rock — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1981 in British Columbia, USA, showing a close-up of a small metal bowl embedded in a rough granite rock. The camera slowly pans across a rugged, sunlit rocky landscape with sparse green shrubs growing between large gray boulders. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and authentic Super 8 characteristics, capturing a quiet moment of nature and an unexpected man-made object in a remote outdoor setting.

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: 122879189

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 1981 archival requests needing a brief nature cutaway of rocky British Columbia terrain and an unusual small metal object in stone for documentary or editorial use.
Period detail: The frames show outdoor 8mm footage with 1980s color and grain characteristics, while visible objects provide limited date clues beyond the supplied 1981 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a quiet visitor-shot perspective, lingering on a curious found object before drifting across nearby rocks and shrubs without staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small metal bowl-like object in a rock hollow, pale granite boulders, sunlit stone slabs, sparse shrubs, dry branches and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage shows natural 8mm grain, mild color fading, soft focus, uneven exposure and handheld framing that read as authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a short insert, environmental cutaway, transition beat or visual detail for discovery, travel, geology or memory sequences.
Historical context: The clip reflects a casual outdoor encounter with rugged rock formations and sparse vegetation, with no visible people, signage or identifiable landmark in the frames.
Research note: No people, logos or private property are visible, but copyright and any location-specific permissions should still be checked before final use.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1981 8mm rocky landscape footage, metal object in rock, British Columbia home movie, granite boulders, shrubs and vintage nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1981 British Columbia outdoor footage, then with broader rocky landscape or found-object nature material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1981 8mm frame from British Columbia metadata showing a small metal object set into a shallow hollow in coarse gray rock. — A small metal object sits in a circular depression in rough stone.

Rocky outdoor terrain with pale granite slabs and a shrub between boulders, filmed in the supplied 1981 British Columbia home-movie context. — The camera moves across pale boulders and a shrub rooted between rocks.

A handheld 8mm view of gray boulders, sparse shrubs and dry brush in a rocky British Columbia landscape, based on supplied metadata. — Sparse vegetation lies against broad gray rock surfaces.

Final frame of the short 1981 8mm pan showing pale stone slabs, low brush and sparse shrubs in rocky outdoor terrain. — The shot settles on low brush and pale rock slabs.

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