Agate Springs Montana USA-1975: Great Music In Montana

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Year1975
Decade1970s
LocationAgate Springs, Montana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1975 Agate Springs Montana

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Great Music In Montana — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a man in a cowboy hat and plaid shirt standing by a mailbox on a rural road in Montana. Snow-capped mountains rise dramatically in the background under a clear blue sky. The footage features on-screen text reading 'MONTANA JULY 27 - AUGUST 8 1975' and later shows a handwritten note about the song 'We Ain't Gonna Grieve Ol' Ed No More.' The warm, slightly faded color palette and film grain evoke a nostalgic, authentic slice of Americana from the mid-1970s.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123075450

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1768 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: july
Reel-level year note: 1975
Reel-level location note: agate springs,montana
Date: 1975 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: Agate Springs, 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 Montana home-movie footage suited to establishing rural travel, western Americana, or dated vacation-title material in documentary edits.
Period detail: The dated title card, cowboy hat, plaid shirt, rural mailbox, and faded color 8mm look support a mid-1970s amateur travel-film context.
Home-movie behavior: A man poses casually beside a roadside mailbox while the camera records a personal Montana trip title card rather than a staged production scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a cowboy-hatted man, mailbox, rural road, fence line, open field, snow-capped mountains, large Montana title text, and handwritten song note.
Film character: The clip has warm 8mm color, visible grain, soft focus, uneven exposure, gate edges, and contact-print variation that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: Editors could use it as a brief location insert, dated travel transition, Montana memory beat, or cutaway into a reel about road trips and western music.
Historical context: The imagery reflects a personal 1975 visit to rural Montana, using western dress and mountain scenery as the visual language of a home travel record.
Research note: A visible adult figure may require likeness review, while the handwritten song reference should be assessed separately from footage copyright and music rights.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1975 Montana 8mm home movie, rural road mailbox mountains, cowboy hat travel title card, and vintage western vacation footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots from this trip, then other 1975 Montana material, then broader rural Americana, road travel, and home-movie music references.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 Montana home-movie title frame showing a man by a rural mailbox, road, fence, fields, and distant snow-capped mountains. — Montana trip title card with a man standing by a roadside mailbox beneath mountain scenery.

1975 Montana 8mm frame with a cowboy-hatted man posing near a mailbox under large dated travel-title lettering. — Dated Montana title card over a rural roadside scene with mountains in the distance.

1975 Montana home-movie frame with bold trip dates over a roadside mailbox scene and snow-capped mountains. — The title lettering shifts across the roadside Montana travel scene.

Faded 1975 Montana 8mm frame showing trip-title text beneath a handwritten note about a song, with the roadside figure still faintly visible. — Handwritten song note appears over the fading Montana title card.

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