Holland Lake Montana USA-1972: A Beautiful Lake Landscape Overlooking The Wheat Fields

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationHolland Lake, Montana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Holland Lake Montana

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A Beautiful Lake Landscape Overlooking The Wheat Fields — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view of Holland Lake in Montana, USA. The camera pans across the deep blue waters, revealing a vast expanse of golden wheat fields stretching to the horizon under a partly cloudy sky. The footage, framed by the dark border of a film projector, shows subtle movement as the perspective shifts, offering a nostalgic glimpse of rural American scenery. The grainy texture and rich color palette evoke a strong sense of 1970s Americana, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects.

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: 123069152

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1972 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Holland Lake, Montana, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
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: 1972 8mm home-movie landscape footage suited to rural Montana, lake, prairie, and American travel establishing inserts.
Period detail: The 1970s source is supported by metadata, while the visible scene shows open shoreline, fields, partly cloudy sky, and dark projected-film borders rather than datable built details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot viewpoint from an overlook, with a slow handheld pan across water and farmland rather than staged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include deep blue lake water, golden fields, low shoreline, scattered trees, distant horizon, partly cloudy sky, and dark projector-frame edges.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, warm color, slight exposure variation, and gate-edge framing that preserve the home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a rural establishing shot, scenic transition, travel-memory beat, or cutaway between Montana landscape sequences.
Historical context: The footage places a lakeside view beside agricultural land, offering visual context for rural recreation and open-country scenery in early 1970s Montana.
Research note: Metadata flags people visible, so likeness review may be needed even if no faces are readable here; copyright, location, and property questions remain separate checks.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1972 8mm Montana lake landscape, Holland Lake home movie, rural American wheat fields, and vintage prairie shoreline footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1972 Holland Lake or Montana material, then broader lake, farmland, and prairie landscape footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 8mm view near Holland Lake, Montana, showing blue water, golden fields, low shoreline, and a cloudy sky. — Overlook view across lake water toward open fields and a distant horizon.

1972 8mm Montana lake landscape with broad blue water, pale fields, scattered shoreline growth, and cloud cover. — The pan continues across the lake toward flat fields under a partly cloudy sky.

Home-movie frame from 1972 near Holland Lake, Montana, with shoreline, wheat-colored fields, brush, and a low horizon. — A shoreline curve separates the blue lake from open fields beyond.

1972 8mm view near Holland Lake, Montana, with water, open fields, trees, and a small distant structure or object. — The final frame shows lake and fields with trees and a small pale structure near the foreground.

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