Scapegoat Wilderness Montana USA .Mp-1973: Sunset In The Forest Shading The Lake

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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 dramatic sunset over Scapegoat Wilderness in Montana. The sky glows with deep purple and violet hues, casting a surreal, dreamlike light over the forested hills and a calm lake below. The camera slowly tilts downward, revealing the water's surface mirroring the colorful clouds. Film grain, scratches, and natural color shifts give the footage an authentic, nostalgic quality, evoking a sense of quiet solitude in the American wilderness.

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: 123074905

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 sequences needing a quiet 8mm wilderness sunset, mountain lake atmosphere, or reflective nature transition.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the 8mm color palette, grain, and handheld framing; the 1973 date and Scapegoat Wilderness location are supported by supplied metadata rather than visible landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the patient, unstaged feel of a traveler pausing to record changing light over forested hills and water rather than documenting an event.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include violet cloud bands, dark wooded ridgelines, a sloping mountain silhouette, calm lake reflection, heavy shadow, and rounded film-frame edges.
Film character: The footage shows dense 8mm grain, purple color shift, uneven exposure, vertical scratches, and slight handheld drift that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an atmospheric insert, wilderness transition, memory beat, or visual pause between travel, ecology, or personal-history scenes.
Historical context: The scene reflects home-movie attention to remote American landscape and changing natural light, with no visible people, structures, vehicles, or signs in the sampled frames.
Research note: No faces, logos, or private property are visible in the sampled frames, but users should still review copyright status and any location-use requirements separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1973 8mm Montana wilderness sunset, vintage home movie lake reflection, purple mountain sky, and Scapegoat Wilderness nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other 1973 Scapegoat Wilderness or Montana 8mm material, then with broader vintage lake, forest, mountain, and sunset footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 8mm Scapegoat Wilderness footage showing violet clouds over a shadowed forest ridge and sloping mountain silhouette. — Violet sunset sky hangs above a dark forested ridge in the Montana wilderness footage.

1973 Montana 8mm frame with bright purple sunset clouds behind a black treeline and mountain ridge. — Purple sunset light silhouettes the forest and mountain ridge.

1973 Scapegoat Wilderness 8mm frame looking from violet sunset clouds down to a dark forest ridge and reflective lake. — The tilt reveals lake water reflecting the purple sky below the forested slope.

1973 Montana wilderness 8mm frame with a shadowed lake reflecting violet clouds below forested hills and a mountain slope. — A shadowed mountain lake mirrors the violet sky as the scene settles into dusk.

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