Scapegoat Wilderness Montana USA .Mp-1973: Horses Grazing In The Beautiful Plains

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

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Scapegoat Wilderness Montana USA — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a serene landscape in Scapegoat Wilderness, Montana. The clip shows a wide, open plain under a dramatic cloudy sky, with distant mountains forming a majestic backdrop. Several horses graze peacefully in the meadow, their silhouettes standing out against the golden grass. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics—slight grain, subtle color shifts, and vertical scratches—adding to its nostalgic, authentic feel. The camera appears to be moving, offering a sweeping view of the untouched wilderness, evoking a sense of calm and timelessness. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content about American nature and rural life.

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: 123073183

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: 1970s 8mm home-movie landscape footage for productions needing a quiet Montana wilderness cutaway with grazing horses and mountain plains.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, handheld framing, and 1973 metadata rather than clothing, vehicles, signage, or built features.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor viewpoint, observing open meadow, horses, clouds, and distant hills from a moving camera rather than arranged action.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include grazing horses, broad grassland, low ponds or wet patches, distant mountain ridges, a sloping hillside, heavy clouds, and 8mm frame borders.
Film character: The footage has darkened 8mm edges, visible grain, vertical scratches, muted color shifts, and uneven exposure that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural insert, place-setting transition, wilderness memory beat, or quiet cutaway between Montana travel or nature sequences.
Historical context: The scene reflects a visitor-recorded view of open western landscape and grazing animals, without visible buildings, roads, people, or date-specific public events.
Research note: No people, brands, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any land-use context should still be reviewed before licensing.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 8mm Montana wilderness, Scapegoat Wilderness horses, home movie mountain plains, and 1970s rural landscape footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Scapegoat Wilderness or Montana footage, then broader horse, meadow, and mountain landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm Montana wilderness view with several horses grazing on an open plain under a layered cloudy sky. — Horses graze across an open plain with distant mountains under heavy cloud cover.

1973 8mm view of Scapegoat Wilderness terrain, showing meadow, hillside, wet patches, and distant mountain ridges. — A broad meadow and hillside sit below layered clouds and distant blue ridges.

1973 8mm Montana landscape frame with open valley meadow, left hillside, wet ground, and distant mountains. — The camera frames a quiet valley meadow with wet patches and mountain ridges beyond.

1973 8mm Montana wilderness view with dark foreground meadow, distant ridges, and dramatic cloud cover. — Distant ridges stretch beyond a dark meadow under a textured, cloud-filled sky.

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