Agate Springs Montana USA-1975: Looking Through Trees At A Cloudy Mountain

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

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Looking Through Trees At A Cloudy Mountain — Clip Details

A young boy in a red shirt and dark pants walks across a grassy mountain meadow in this 8mm home movie from 1975. The shot is framed by pine tree branches in the foreground, looking out over a dramatic valley with forested slopes and distant peaks partially obscured by clouds. The film shows natural grain and slight color fading typical of vintage Super 8 footage, capturing a quiet, nostalgic moment of exploration in the Montana wilderness.

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: 123075950

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm home-movie footage suited to documentary or education edits needing a quiet Montana mountain meadow and clouded valley view.
Period detail: Visible era clues are limited to the 8mm color home-movie look and outdoor clothing, with the 1975 date supported by clip metadata rather than readable detail in frame.
Home-movie behavior: A distant person walks through an open meadow while the camera watches from beneath pine branches, giving the scene an unstaged family-travel perspective.
What appears in frame: The frames show pine branches, dark forested slopes, grassy meadow, distant mountains, heavy clouds, patches of blue sky, and one small walking figure.
Film character: Soft focus, visible grain, slight fading, uneven exposure, and contact-frame borders give the clip a physical 8mm archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a reflective wilderness cutaway, travel-memory insert, or transition into a Montana outdoor sequence.
Historical context: The clip documents recreational viewing of a mountain landscape in the mid-1970s, without visible signage, landmarks, vehicles, or built structures to narrow the context.
Research note: A distant person is visible, so likeness review may be needed; no logos or private property are apparent, and copyright clearance remains separate from depicted-person review.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1975 8mm Montana mountain meadow, home movie cloudy valley view, pine-framed wilderness scene, and vintage family travel landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1975 Agate Springs or Montana material, then broader 1970s mountain and forest home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 Agate Springs, Montana 8mm frame looking past pine branches toward a cloudy mountain valley and a distant person in a meadow. — A distant walker crosses a grassy mountain meadow beneath pine branches.

Pine branches frame a 1975 Montana mountain valley view with cloud-covered peaks and a small distant person in the meadow. — Clouds gather over the mountain valley as a small figure moves through the meadow.

Soft 8mm home-movie frame from Agate Springs, Montana, showing a clouded mountain valley and a distant person low in the meadow. — The camera holds on the valley while the walker remains small in the lower meadow.

1975 Montana 8mm frame with pine branches overhead, dark forested hills, distant clouded mountains, and meadow foreground. — A pine-framed view looks across meadow and dark slopes toward cloud-covered peaks.

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