Holland Lake Montana USA-1972: Man Fishing As Fish Breaks Surface

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

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Man Fishing As Fish Breaks Surface — Clip Details

A man in a light-colored shirt and dark pants stands at the edge of Holland Lake in Montana, casting a fishing line into the calm water. The 8mm film captures the serene moment with soft, natural lighting and a vintage color palette. After the cast, ripples spread across the lake's surface, followed by a sudden disturbance as a fish breaks the surface, creating concentric rings. The footage, shot in 1972, exudes a nostalgic, home movie quality with visible film grain and a quiet, contemplative mood.

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: 123070396

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 Montana lake fishing footage suited for documentary inserts on outdoor recreation, home movies, angling, and quiet vacation memory scenes.
Period detail: The visible frames mostly show lake-surface ripples, with the 1972 home-movie period supported by the clip metadata rather than by distinct clothing or objects in these stills.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged observer's view of a fishing moment, holding on the water as the line or fish activity creates spreading rings.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green-blue lake water, circular ripples, soft reflections, film-frame borders, a central scan divider, and slight exposure variation across the contact sheet.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, muted color, minor gate edges, and gentle exposure shifts that support an authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a cutaway, pause beat, or transition from a person fishing to the lake surface reacting to movement below.
Historical context: The footage documents recreational fishing at Holland Lake in Montana as a home-movie scene, without enough visible context here to identify facilities, landmarks, or other people.
Research note: A person is flagged elsewhere in the clip, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are visible in these frames, and copyright clearance remains separate.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1972 8mm Holland Lake Montana fishing, vintage home movie lake ripples, Super 8 angling cutaway, and fish breaking water surface.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1972 Holland Lake footage, then broader Montana lake, fishing, and outdoor recreation home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

Holland Lake water in 1972 home-movie footage, showing a pale disturbance on the surface and dark scan borders. — A light patch of ripples spreads across the lake surface.

Holland Lake surface with a small disturbance and soft reflections in 1972 8mm footage. — A small break in the water interrupts the otherwise calm lake surface.

Concentric ripples spread across Holland Lake in a 1972 home-movie fishing scene. — Rings widen over the lake after activity at the surface.

A broad set of rings spreads over Holland Lake water in the final still from the 1972 8mm clip. — The disturbance resolves into broad circular ripples on the water.

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