Holland Lake Montana USA-1972: Zooming In On A Landscape

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

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Zooming In On A Landscape — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping view of Holland Lake in Montana, USA. The camera slowly zooms in on a wide, tranquil lake surrounded by rolling hills and sparse greenery under a pale sky. The footage shows natural light reflecting off the water, with visible film grain and slight color fading typical of Super 8 home movies. A road runs along the lakeshore, adding a sense of scale to the serene landscape. This archival clip evokes nostalgia and is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

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: 123069186

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 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm home-movie landscape footage suited to documentary inserts, place-setting cutaways, or archival sequences about Montana lakes and rural travel.
Period detail: The frames may show early-1970s amateur travel filming through the 8mm format, with a lakeside road, open shore, pale sky, and undeveloped hills visible in the distance.
Home-movie behavior: The slow zoom and fixed overlook suggest a visitor pausing to record the lake view rather than a staged scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a broad lake surface, marshy shoreline, pale hills, sparse greenery, a lakeside road, open sky, and contact-sheet frame borders.
Film character: The clip has a home-movie film texture with soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, and exposure shifts that reflect an original 8mm scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet establishing insert, a travel-memory transition, or a nature cutaway between more specific Montana or family-reel scenes.
Historical context: The footage gives visual context for recreational travel and landscape observation in a 1972 home-movie reel without making claims beyond the lakeside view shown.
Research note: No people, logos, or obvious private structures are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any property permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1972 Montana lake 8mm footage, Holland Lake home movie, 1970s rural landscape, and vintage lake zoom shot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1972 Holland Lake or Montana material, and then wider 1970s lake, mountain, and road-travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 8mm view of Holland Lake, Montana, with water, shoreline road, sparse greenery, distant hills, and pale sky. — A wide lakeside overlook shows Holland Lake with a road along the shore and hills beyond.

Zoomed 1972 Holland Lake view showing open water, marshy shoreline, distant pale hills, and faded 8mm color. — The camera zooms closer across the lake toward the far hills and shoreline.

1972 8mm frame of Holland Lake with water in the foreground, pale hills across the horizon, and a narrow strip of shore. — A mid-zoom view holds on the lake surface and the pale hills across the water.

Final 1972 Holland Lake frame with a tighter view of the water, shoreline textures, distant hills, and soft 8mm film color. — The shot ends on a tighter landscape view across the lake toward the hills.

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