British Columbia USA-1981: Mountain Peaks Surrounded By Water

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

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Mountain Peaks Surrounded By Water — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1981 capturing a serene mountain lake nestled in British Columbia, USA. The clip shows a tranquil alpine landscape with rugged peaks, rocky shores, and evergreen trees surrounding calm waters. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and natural light variations, with a slight camera pan revealing more of the valley and distant peaks. A bird briefly flies across the frame, adding movement to the peaceful scene. This authentic archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into 1980s outdoor recreation and natural beauty, ideal for documentaries, nature projects, or historical storytelling.

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: 122882380

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: This 1981 8mm clip supports archive requests for early-1980s alpine lake scenery, regional travel footage, and quiet nature cutaways for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The supplied metadata places the footage in 1981, while the frames themselves mainly show timeless mountain lake scenery with few visible era-specific clues.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of an unstaged traveler’s viewpoint, pausing on the lake and rocky slopes rather than presenting a planned scenic survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rugged mountain slopes, calm lake water, evergreen shoreline, scattered rocks, distant valley ridges, bright sky, and dark film gate edges.
Film character: The 8mm image carries soft focus, visible grain, faded blue-purple color, slight exposure shift, and handheld framing as part of its archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic insert, regional transition, outdoor memory beat, or quiet cutaway between travel or wilderness sequences.
Historical context: The clip visually records a remote alpine landscape as seen through amateur 1980s home-movie footage, without visible people, vehicles, buildings, or signage.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in these frames, but copyright, source ownership, and exact location should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1981 8mm mountain lake footage, British Columbia alpine landscape, vintage home movie peaks, and rocky shoreline water view.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1981 British Columbia landscape clips, then broader vintage alpine lake and mountain travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1981 8mm frame of an alpine lake below rocky mountain slopes, with evergreen shoreline and calm water visible. — Rocky mountain slopes rise above a calm alpine lake and tree-lined shore.

1981 8mm view across an alpine lake toward evergreens, rocky terrain, and a broad mountain face. — A lake curves around evergreen shoreline beneath a rugged mountain face.

1981 8mm frame showing a closer alpine lake view with trees, rocky shore, and hazy distant ridges. — The camera view shifts closer to the lake, trees, and distant valley ridges.

1981 8mm frame of a mountain lake beside dark evergreens, with rocky terrain and hazy ridges in the distance. — Evergreens and rocks frame the lake as distant ridges fade into bright sky.

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