Holland Lake Montana USA-1972: Scenic Crystal Clear Lake Surrounded By Pine Trees And Mountains

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

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Scenic Crystal Clear Lake Surrounded By Pine Trees And... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of Holland Lake in Montana. The scene features a calm, crystal-clear lake surrounded by tall pine trees and dense forest, with distant mountains visible under a soft sky. The footage exhibits a distinct blue-purple color cast and grainy texture characteristic of Super 8 film from the era. This tranquil natural landscape evokes a sense of peaceful nostalgia and is ideal for documentary, editorial, or historical content.

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: 123071472

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: 1970s 8mm Montana lake scenery suited to documentary inserts, regional nature sequences, travel-history edits, and quiet environmental cutaways.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm home-movie look, soft exposure, and blue-purple color shift rather than date-specific objects or built features.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot overlook perspective, lingering on the lake, pine forest, and mountains without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a calm lake, dark pine trees, dense forest, distant mountain ridges, pale sky, and the black borders of a contact-printed 8mm frame.
Film character: The footage carries visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, slight handheld framing, and a pronounced blue-purple cast consistent with aged small-gauge film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a scenic establishing insert, reflective transition, nature cutaway, or memory beat within a Montana, travel, or family-film sequence.
Historical context: The scene records a recreational view of Holland Lake as preserved in home-movie form, emphasizing landscape observation rather than a documented event.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location or land-use context separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1972 8mm Holland Lake Montana, vintage Montana lake footage, pine forest mountain lake home movie, and 1970s scenic travel film.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1972 Holland Lake or Montana footage, then broader 1970s mountain lake and forest scenery.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 8mm view of Holland Lake, Montana, with dark pine trees framing calm water, forest, and distant mountain ridges. — A blue-purple 8mm view looks across Holland Lake toward forest and mountains.

1972 8mm Holland Lake scene with still water, surrounding forest, dark foreground trees, and soft mountain silhouettes. — The lake sits below a forested ridge with mountains softened by the aged film color.

1972 home-movie frame from Holland Lake, Montana, showing calm water, pine silhouettes, forest, and distant mountains. — Pine silhouettes frame the lake, with a forested basin and mountains beyond.

1972 8mm scenic view of Holland Lake in Montana, showing water, pine forest, mountain ridges, and dark small-gauge film edges. — A final scenic view holds on the lake and surrounding pine forest beneath mountain ridges.

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