Idaho USA-1972: Dark Blue Sky With Clouds

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationIdaho, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Idaho

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Dark Blue Sky With Clouds — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a dramatic night sky over Idaho. A luminous full moon glows through swirling purple-tinged clouds, casting an eerie, otherworldly light over a dark horizon. The grainy texture and color shifts of the Super 8 footage enhance the mysterious, atmospheric mood. The scene transitions from a clear moonlit sky to a darker, more ominous cloud cover, evoking a sense of quiet tension. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into a forgotten night, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123071977

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: Idaho, 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 Idaho 8mm home-movie footage for editors needing a short atmospheric night-sky insert, transition, or weather cutaway without people or recognizable property.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, heavy grain, gate edges, and purple-blue exposure shifts rather than identifiable buildings, clothing, vehicles, or landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged quality of a home-movie camera pointed toward a dramatic sky, holding on the moon, clouds, and horizon rather than documenting a planned event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bright moon, dark blue and purple cloud cover, a low horizon line, occasional brighter cloud edges, heavy film grain, and black frame borders from the scan.
Film character: The footage shows a physical 8mm character with pronounced grain, uneven exposure, soft focus, color drift toward blue and violet, and visible frame/gate boundaries.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a moody night-sky cutaway, a transition into a memory sequence, or an atmospheric insert between rural or travel scenes.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for amateur 1970s home-movie sky photography, emphasizing available light, natural weather, and the limitations of small-gauge color film at night.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, brands, audible music, or private property are visible in the provided frames, but users should still evaluate copyright ownership and any production-specific context separately.
Research search match: Useful researcher searches include 1972 Idaho 8mm night sky, vintage home movie moon through clouds, Super 8 blue clouds at night, and archival rural sky cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1972 Idaho footage, and finally with night-sky, moon, weather, rural horizon, or atmospheric home-movie material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Idaho 8mm frame showing a bright moon, layered dark clouds, and a low horizon under a blue-purple night sky. — Moonlit clouds over a dark horizon.

1972 Idaho 8mm frame with the moon near the upper sky, purple cloud cover, and a thin glowing horizon line. — Moon above purple cloud cover.

Dark 8mm frame from the 1972 Idaho night-sky clip, with most of the view underexposed and only faint blue-purple tonal variation visible. — Underexposed night-sky frame.

1972 Idaho 8mm frame showing dense purple-blue cloud cover above a faintly glowing low horizon at night. — Cloud bank over a dim horizon.

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