Holland Lake Montana USA-1972: Rocky Hillside with Scattered Boulders

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

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Rocky Hillside with Scattered Boulders — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a rugged hillside at Holland Lake, Montana. The footage shows a rocky slope with scattered boulders and patches of green grass, suggesting a natural landscape undergoing change. A lens flare appears in the upper frame, indicating bright sunlight and the film's analog quality. The camera moves slightly, revealing the uneven terrain and a fallen log in the foreground. The image has a distinct retro color palette with faded greens and purples, characteristic of Super 8 film from the era. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of a remote natural setting, possibly documenting a site of geological interest or early development.

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: 123070203

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 archival requests needing a natural Montana landscape cutaway, geology-adjacent hillside view, or quiet outdoor home-movie insert.
Period detail: The frames may show 1972 amateur 8mm travel footage, with no visible people, vehicles, signage, or built structures to date the scene beyond the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a casual visitor-shot observation, lingering on an uneven rocky slope rather than staging an event or scenic panorama.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rocky hillside, scattered boulders, green grass, dark tree stumps or trunks, a fallen log, exposed earth, and bright lens flare.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm look with soft focus, handheld framing, visible grain, faded green-purple color, and intermittent sunlight flare.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, transition, location texture, or memory beat for a rural landscape, environmental change, or outdoor travel sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a rugged lakeside-region hillside in Montana as seen by a home-movie camera, without visible evidence of active construction or people.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or property concerns separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1972 8mm Montana hillside footage, Holland Lake rocky slope, vintage home movie landscape, and archival rural terrain cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Holland Lake or Montana 1972 footage, then broader vintage rocky landscape or environmental-change material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 8mm view of a rocky grassy hillside at Holland Lake, Montana, with boulders, tree trunks, and a fallen log. — Rocky hillside terrain with scattered stones, grass, and fallen wood.

1972 Holland Lake hillside frame showing rocks, grass, dark trunks, and a bright 8mm lens flare near the upper edge. — Sunlit rocky hillside with grass patches and analog flare.

Darker 1972 8mm frame at Holland Lake with grass, rocky ground, fallen wood, and vertical sunlight flare. — Rocky ground and grass partly obscured by shadow and flare.

1972 Holland Lake 8mm frame showing a shadowed rocky grass slope, fallen wood, and bright flare across the upper frame. — Shadowed hillside terrain with stones, grass, fallen wood, and flare.

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