Scapegoat Wilderness Montana USA-1973: Topographic Map and Welcome Sign

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationScapegoat Wilderness, Montana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 · Scapegoat Wilderness, Montana, United States
StatusDirect License

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Topographic Map and Welcome Sign — Clip Details

A vintage 8mm home movie clip from 1973 captures a close-up of a topographic map, likely for the Scapegoat Wilderness in Montana. The map, projected with a distinct purple tint, shows detailed terrain, roads, and labeled areas like 'Kleinschmidt Flat' and 'Big Flathead Lake'. The scene transitions to a weathered green sign featuring a blue mountain and pine tree graphic, with partial text reading 'We M', suggesting a welcome to the wilderness area. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color shifts, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of a family adventure in the Montana wilderness.

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: 123073029

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 1764 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: III-09,scapegoat
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: lincoln nebraska,montana
Date: 1973 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Scapegoat Wilderness, Montana, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
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 documentary or educational edits needing Montana wilderness travel context, visitor orientation details, or an archival home-movie cutaway to maps and park signage.
Period detail: The frames may show 1973 visitor-shot footage with a paper topographic map, hand-painted or printed welcome signage, muted color reversal tones, and Super 8-style framing.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the direct viewpoint of a traveler documenting route planning and arrival signage rather than staged scenery or official promotional coverage.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a topographic map with grid lines and place labels, dark map borders, a green welcome sign, a blue mountain graphic, pine tree artwork, and snowy speckles on the sign.
Film character: The footage carries dense grain, purple-blue color shift, soft focus, gate edges, and slight handheld instability consistent with scanned small-gauge home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use it as an insert, arrival transition, map reference, or brief memory beat before broader wilderness, camping, driving, or family travel scenes.
Historical context: The clip provides visual context for a 1970s outdoor excursion, showing how visitors recorded maps and signage as part of a wilderness trip.
Research note: No people are visible, but the map and sign text or artwork may require review for copyright or agency attribution separate from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Searches such as 1970s Montana wilderness map, Scapegoat Wilderness home movie, vintage park sign, Super 8 outdoor excursion, and 8mm travel cutaway may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Montana or Scapegoat Wilderness material, then with broader vintage map, park sign, forest, and excursion footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Montana wilderness home-movie frame showing a purple-tinted topographic map with roads, borders, grid markings, and labels including Kleinschmidt Flat. — Close-up of a topographic map used during a wilderness excursion.
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1973 Montana excursion footage holds on the topographic map, with dark boundary lines, roads, faint terrain detail, and place names visible through film grain. — Map detail remains on screen as the camera holds the route reference.
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1973 Montana wilderness travel frame showing a green sign with a blue mountain and pine tree illustration, partial welcome text, and wintery speckled surface marks. — A wilderness welcome sign appears after the map close-up.
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1973 Montana home-movie frame shows the sign cropped tighter, emphasizing the blue mountain artwork, dark pine tree, partial welcome lettering, and outdoor trees behind it. — Cropped sign detail with mountain artwork and partial welcome lettering.
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