Scapegoat Wilderness Montana USA .Mp-1973: Cattail Plant Swaying In The Breeze

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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 quiet forest scene in Scapegoat Wilderness, Montana. The footage shows a sun-dappled woodland floor with lush green plants, scattered rocks, and tree trunks. A distinctive cattail-like plant sways gently in the breeze, its spiky seed head coming into focus in the final frame. The natural movement of foliage and soft light filtering through the trees create a peaceful, nostalgic atmosphere. This authentic 8mm home movie offers raw, unfiltered nature footage ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or historical storytelling.

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: 123073588

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 wilderness nature footage for documentary cutaways, environmental inserts, or quiet transitional moments set in Montana backcountry.
Period detail: The frames may show period home-movie nature coverage, with no visible clothing, vehicles, signage, or built structures to date the scene beyond the supplied 1973 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes a forest floor and seed head at close range, suggesting an unstaged home-movie pause on small natural movement rather than a planned scenic setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tree trunks, shaded forest ground, green understory plants, scattered rocks, dry soil, branches, and a cattail-like seed head.
Film character: The clip carries 8mm texture through soft focus shifts, visible grain, uneven exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that preserve the physical-film feel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a nature insert, contemplative transition, wilderness memory beat, or cutaway from broader Montana outdoor material.
Historical context: The footage documents a small woodland detail in Scapegoat Wilderness without visible people or development, supporting a low-impact view of outdoor recreation-era home movies.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any location-sensitive use separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 8mm Montana wilderness plants, Scapegoat Wilderness forest floor, home movie nature cutaway, and cattail-like seed head breeze footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1973 Scapegoat Wilderness or Montana outdoor clips, then broader 1970s 8mm plant and forest material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm frame from Scapegoat Wilderness showing shaded woodland ground, green understory, scattered rocks, and tree trunks. — Sunlit patches fall across low plants and rocks between dark tree trunks.

Scapegoat Wilderness home-movie frame with tree trunks, ground cover, rocks, and leafy plants in soft 8mm focus. — A still view of the woodland floor shows plants, rocks, and trunks in broken shade.

1973 Montana wilderness frame with a tree trunk at left, green forest plants, rocks, and soft handheld 8mm focus. — The camera stays low among trunks, leaves, and stones on the forest floor.

Scapegoat Wilderness 8mm frame showing a cattail-like seed head against softly blurred forest plants and ground cover. — A narrow seed head stands in focus against a softly blurred woodland background.

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