Idaho USA-1972: Camera Pans Across Rocky Plains And Scenic Hills

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

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Camera Pans Across Rocky Plains And Scenic Hills — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a sweeping pan across a rugged Idaho landscape. The camera moves steadily across a vast expanse of dark, rocky terrain, likely a lava field, with sparse green shrubs and grasses dotting the foreground. In the distance, rolling hills rise under a clear, pale blue sky. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and natural film imperfections, offering authentic archival material for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about American landscapes.

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: 123072421

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

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: Useful for 1970s archival requests needing a brief Idaho landscape pan, rural travel insert, or natural terrain cutaway from authentic 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color, grain, and handheld pan; the landscape itself is undeveloped and may show rural Idaho terrain as filmed in 1972.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot quality, with the camera slowly scanning rocky ground, shrubs, and distant hills rather than staging action or people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark rocky plains, dry grasses, low shrubs, a pale blue sky, rolling hills, and the black frame edges of the film scan.
Film character: The footage carries pronounced 8mm grain, soft focus, slight color shift, exposure variation, and handheld movement that support its archival home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a landscape insert, travel transition, environmental cutaway, or quiet memory beat between scenes involving western U.S. terrain.
Historical context: The view provides visual context for open, sparsely developed western landscape without showing buildings, roads, vehicles, or people in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the sampled frames, but copyright, location identification, and broader reel context still require review.
Research search match: Searches such as 1972 Idaho 8mm landscape, home movie rocky plains, western U.S. lava field pan, and vintage rural hills footage may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1972 Idaho material, then broader western landscape, road-trip, or geology-themed home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Idaho 8mm frame showing dark rocky terrain, scattered shrubs, dry grasses, and low hills under a pale blue sky. — The pan begins across a dark rocky plain with sparse vegetation and distant hills.

1972 Idaho home-movie frame with dark rocky ground, scrub vegetation, a grassy foreground edge, and rolling hills in the distance. — The camera continues across rocky open terrain toward low hills on the horizon.

1972 Idaho 8mm frame showing a rugged dark field, green shrubs, dry grass, and a broad rounded hill beyond the plain. — A rounded hill becomes more prominent as the pan crosses the rugged plain.

1972 Idaho frame from an 8mm pan, with scrubby foreground plants, dark rocky plain, and larger hills beyond the open terrain. — The pan ends with brush in the foreground and larger hills beyond the dark plain.

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