Agate Springs Montana USA-1975: Squirrel Walking Across A Log Laying On The Ground

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

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Squirrel Walking Across A Log Laying On The Ground — Clip Details

A young squirrel navigates a fallen log in a forest setting, captured on 8mm film in 1975. The animal moves cautiously across the weathered wood, its fur a mix of brown and gray, with bright eyes reflecting the ambient light. The footage shows natural movement through a woodland environment with scattered leaves and branches, exhibiting the characteristic grain and color saturation of vintage home movie film. The camera remains steady, focusing on the squirrel's exploration of its natural habitat.

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: 123076055

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 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 8mm wildlife home-movie footage for productions needing a brief woodland cutaway of a squirrel moving across fallen timber.
Period detail: The visible period clues are mainly the 8mm color palette, soft focus, and home-movie framing, with no landmarks or built features visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a home-movie operator closely following a small animal at ground level in a wooded setting.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a squirrel, a fallen log, damp forest floor, small green leaves, twigs, bark, and dark gaps between contact-sheet frames.
Film character: The footage shows soft 8mm grain, muted warm color, shallow focus, and slight exposure variation that give the animal close-up an archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, nature transition, quiet memory beat, or cutaway within a rural Montana or 1970s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The scene records a modest 1975 home-movie encounter with woodland wildlife rather than a staged natural-history setup.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location context, and any broader release requirements should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1975 8mm squirrel on log, Montana woodland wildlife home movie, vintage forest animal cutaway, and Super 8 nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Agate Springs Montana 1975 material, then similar 1970s woodland wildlife clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 Agate Springs, Montana 8mm frame showing a squirrel close to the lens beside twigs, bark, and a fallen log. — A squirrel appears close to the lens among branches and fallen wood.

Soft 8mm frame from Agate Springs, Montana, with the squirrel blurred among branches, bark, and small green leaves. — The squirrel moves through branches in a soft-focus woodland frame.

1975 8mm frame showing the squirrel partly obscured near a fallen log, surrounded by bark, twigs, and bright green leaves. — The squirrel passes near low leaves and fallen wood on the forest floor.

Soft 8mm closing frame with the squirrel blurred near branches, bark, and green leaves in the Agate Springs woodland setting. — The squirrel remains partly blurred as it moves through branches and leaves.

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