Holland Lake Montana USA-1972: Bird Roaming In The Wild Lands Of An Unidentified

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

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Bird Roaming In The Wild Lands Of An Unidentified — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a serene mountain landscape at Holland Lake, Montana. The footage shows a rocky hillside covered in green vegetation and wildflowers, with a small bird roaming through the undergrowth. In the wider shots, hikers can be seen exploring the trail, adding a sense of scale and human presence to the natural setting. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel perfect for historical or nature-themed projects.

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: 123070282

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: 1970s 8mm nature footage for productions needing a brief archival cutaway of Montana mountain terrain, wildlife habitat, and hikers in a lakeside wilderness setting.
Period detail: The 1972 home-movie source and soft 8mm color suggest early-1970s amateur travel filming, while the visible clothing and distant hikers are too small for precise period identification.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a visitor pausing on a rocky trail to film birds, vegetation, and hikers moving through the landscape from a handheld vantage point.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small bird in brush, rocky hillside, green undergrowth, wildflowers, boulders, distant hikers, tree shadows, and exposed rock faces.
Film character: The footage shows handheld 8mm texture with visible grain, soft focus, saturated greens and purples, uneven exposure, and dark frame-edge or gate shadows.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short nature insert, travel-memory cutaway, transitional beat, or establishing fragment for a 1970s mountain outing.
Historical context: The scene documents recreational movement through a mountain landscape, with hikers and wildlife sharing a rocky, vegetated area near Holland Lake according to the supplied metadata.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, so likeness review may still be needed; no logos, private property, or music are indicated, and copyright clearance is separate from appearance rights.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1972 8mm Montana wilderness, Holland Lake hikers, vintage home movie bird in brush, rocky mountain trail, and 1970s amateur nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with Holland Lake or Montana footage from 1972, and then with broader 1970s hiking, wildlife, and mountain-landscape scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A small bird appears in the undergrowth on a rocky hillside at Holland Lake, Montana, in 1972 8mm home-movie footage. — Small bird moving through brush and rocks on the hillside.

Soft 8mm view of dense green vegetation and scattered rocks on the Holland Lake hillside, partly obscured by dark frame shadows. — Vegetation and rocks on the hillside, partially obscured by dark film-frame shadows.

Wide 1972 8mm view of a rocky, vegetated slope near Holland Lake with distant hikers moving through the landscape. — Distant hikers cross a rocky, flowered mountain slope.

Distant hikers stand or walk among boulders and wildflowers on a rocky Holland Lake hillside in 1972 home-movie footage. — Hikers appear as small figures among boulders and hillside vegetation.

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