Holland Lake Montana USA-1972: Water Sitting And Flowing Through A Biome On A

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

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Water Sitting And Flowing Through A Biome On A — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a serene landscape at Holland Lake, Montana. The clip shows calm water flowing through a natural biome, with gentle waves lapping against a rocky shoreline. A distant, sunlit hillside forms the backdrop under a clear sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, with a brief moment of darkness suggesting a film reel transition. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet Americana and natural beauty from the early 1970s.

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: 123069202

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

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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: 1972 8mm home-movie footage of water and shoreline at Holland Lake, Montana, suited to documentary cutaways about travel, landscape, ecology, or quiet regional memory.
Period detail: The visible clues are natural landscape, handheld framing, muted color, and 8mm grain, with the 1972 date supported by the supplied clip metadata rather than by objects in frame.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on water, marshy shoreline, and a distant hillside from a casual visitor viewpoint, preserving an unstaged pause in a Montana lake landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm blue water, rippled shallows, low marsh vegetation, a rocky or sandy shoreline, distant sunlit hills, pale sky, and dark film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, slight color shift toward blue and purple, uneven exposure, and visible gate or contact-sheet borders that add archival film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a natural cutaway, establishing insert, reflective transition, or quiet memory beat between scenes about outdoor travel or western landscapes.
Historical context: The clip documents a 1970s home-movie view of a Montana lakeside biome, emphasizing leisure observation of water and terrain without visible people or built structures.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the provided frames, but copyright, location identification, and environmental-use context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1972 8mm Holland Lake Montana water, vintage home movie lake shoreline, Super 8 Montana landscape, and 1970s natural biome footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1972 Holland Lake or Montana footage, then broader 1970s lake, shoreline, water, and nature cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Holland Lake, Montana frame showing calm water, marshy shallows, and a distant sunlit hillside on 8mm film. — Water and shallow shoreline areas stretch toward a bright hillside in the distance.

Holland Lake, Montana water and shoreline vegetation appear beneath a pale sky, with 8mm grain and dark frame borders visible. — A broad lake surface and low marshy banks sit below a sunlit ridge.

A 1972 8mm view at Holland Lake shows shallow water, scattered marsh plants, and a light hillside across the lake. — Shallow water and small patches of vegetation lead toward the far hillside.

Holland Lake shoreline and calm water are seen from a visitor perspective, with a distant Montana hillside in the background. — Calm lake water surrounds low marsh vegetation, with hills visible beyond.

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