Scapegoat Wilderness Montana USA-1973: Bird Foraging in Tall Grass

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

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Bird Foraging in Tall Grass — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a bird moving through tall grass in the Scapegoat Wilderness of Montana. The animal, possibly a grouse or similar ground-dwelling bird, is partially obscured by dense vegetation as it forages near the forest edge. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics: soft focus, natural color tones, and visible film grain. The scene is quiet and observational, offering a glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat during a summer day.

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: 123075201

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: 1973 8mm wilderness wildlife footage for productions needing a brief natural-history cutaway or archival forest insert from Montana.
Period detail: The frames show soft 8mm color, handheld framing and a contact-print look that support the early 1970s home-movie context in the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from a distance as a small bird moves through grass, giving the footage an unstaged field-observation quality.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include tall meadow grass, a small ground bird, shaded forest, tree trunks, bright leaf highlights and dark film borders.
Film character: The clip has visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure and slight handheld drift that read as original home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, quiet transition, forest cutaway or memory beat within a wilderness or home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene records a casual 1970s visitor view of wildlife at a forest edge without visible people, buildings or developed facilities.
Research note: No people, faces, logos or private property are visible, but species identification and copyright licensing should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Montana 8mm wildlife, Scapegoat Wilderness bird in grass, Super 8 forest bird and vintage home movie nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Scapegoat Wilderness material, then broader Montana wildlife or forest-edge footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

A small ground bird appears among tall grass near shaded trees in 1973 Scapegoat Wilderness home-movie footage. — A partly obscured bird stands or moves through meadow grass below dark forest cover.

The bird remains partly concealed by grass against a dark forest backdrop in the Montana wilderness scene. — The bird is visible as a low shape among grass stems near the forest edge.

A small ground-dwelling bird moves through dense grass, filmed from a distance on 8mm in Montana. — The bird shifts position while remaining partly hidden by meadow vegetation.

The final frame shows the bird still low in tall grass at the edge of shaded Scapegoat Wilderness forest. — A small bird remains camouflaged in grass against the dark woodland background.

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