Holland Lake Montana USA-1972: A Group Of Ducks Are In The River Swimming With

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

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A Group Of Ducks Are In The River Swimming With — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of Holland Lake in Montana. The clip shows several ducks swimming calmly across the water's surface, with gentle ripples forming around them. In the background, a rugged, tree-dotted hillside rises above the lake, and white buoys are visible in the distance. The footage has a classic, grainy texture with warm, faded colors typical of Super 8 film from the early 1970s. The camera remains steady, offering a peaceful, nostalgic glimpse of nature.

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: 123069242

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: Useful for 1970s American home-movie requests needing quiet lake wildlife, rural Montana scenery, or non-urban nature cutaways for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The 1972 8mm source and faded color palette support an early-1970s home-movie reading, while the visible shoreline, buoys, and wooded rocky slopes provide modest period context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged visitor view of ducks on open water, filmed from a steady lakeside position without people, performance, or directed action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include ducks on rippled lake water, white buoys, a rocky tree-dotted hillside, pale sky, shoreline grasses or reeds, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, warm faded color, mild exposure variation, and contact-sheet frame edges that reinforce its physical home-movie origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm nature insert, rural Montana transition, wildlife cutaway, or reflective memory beat between more active travel scenes.
Historical context: The scene shows recreational lakeside observation in a rural mountain setting, with wildlife and simple buoy markers rather than built infrastructure or crowds.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still review copyright, location context, and any property or access concerns separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1972 8mm Montana lake footage, Holland Lake ducks, vintage home movie waterfowl, rural lake scenery, and 1970s American nature cutaways.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel lake material, then other Holland Lake or Montana 1972 footage, then broader 1970s 8mm wildlife and mountain-water scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 8mm view of ducks on Holland Lake water, with white buoys and a rocky, tree-dotted Montana hillside beyond. — Ducks move across the lake surface beneath a rugged hillside and distant buoys.

Wide 1972 Holland Lake frame showing waterfowl on rippled water, buoy markers, rocky Montana shoreline, and dark reeds at the edge. — A wide lakeside view holds on small ducks and buoy markers before a rocky slope.

Holland Lake home-movie frame with ducks near the lower waterline, distant buoys, reeds, and a rugged Montana hillside. — Ducks remain small against the lake surface as the hillside fills the background.

Final 1972 Holland Lake frame with rippled water in the foreground, buoy markers, dark reeds, and a rocky Montana hillside. — The shot settles on rippled lake water, buoy markers, reeds, and the distant hillside.

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