Holland Lake Montana USA-1972: Small Animal Crawls on Forest Floor

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

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Small Animal Crawls on Forest Floor — Clip Details

A grainy, purple-tinted 8mm home movie from 1972 captures a small animal, possibly a rodent, crawling through a rocky, twig-strewn forest floor at Holland Lake, Montana. The footage, shot on Super 8 film, shows the creature moving amidst debris under dim, natural light, with visible film grain and a slightly shaky camera. The scene evokes a sense of quiet, unscripted nature, preserved as a nostalgic archival moment from a private family collection.

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: 123071347

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 nature or home-movie archive requests needing a brief wildlife cutaway from a Montana forest floor.
Period detail: The frames show no clear era-specific objects, with the 1972 date supported by clip metadata rather than visible details.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged observer's view of a small animal moving through twigs and rocky ground at close range.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small pale animal, dark twigs, stones, rough soil, leaf litter, a vertical tree or branch, and Super 8 frame edges.
Film character: The footage has heavy grain, purple-blue color shift, soft focus, gate borders, and slight handheld instability typical of scanned small-gauge home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a nature insert, quiet transition, or memory beat within a sequence about camping, lakeside travel, or wildlife observation.
Historical context: The scene gives a modest visual record of outdoor leisure and casual wildlife watching near Holland Lake without showing people or built structures.
Research note: No people, logos, or private buildings are visible, but species identification and copyright/licensing status should be checked before publication.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s Montana home movie wildlife, Holland Lake forest floor animal, 8mm small animal crawling, and vintage nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then other Holland Lake or 1972 Montana footage, then broader 1970s outdoor wildlife and forest-floor material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Holland Lake home-movie frame showing rocky forest floor, twigs, and a small animal partly visible near the lower left. — A small animal appears among twigs and stones on the forest floor.

Holland Lake forest-floor frame with stones, tangled roots, and a faint small animal form in soft, grainy 8mm footage. — The small animal is hard to distinguish against the rocky, twig-strewn ground.

1972 Montana home-movie frame showing a pale small animal shape low in the frame amid twigs and rough forest debris. — A pale animal shape remains low against the twiggy ground.

Holland Lake frame showing the small animal near the lower center of a rocky, twig-strewn forest floor in grainy 8mm color. — The animal remains close to the ground among rocks, roots, and scattered debris.

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