Agate Springs Montana USA-1975: Bee Taking Flight from Flower

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

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Bee Taking Flight from Flower — Clip Details

A bumblebee lands on a purple flower among lush green foliage in this vintage 8mm home movie from Agate Springs, Montana, 1975. The bee gathers nectar before taking flight, its wings blurred by motion as it moves through the wind-swept garden. Shot on 8mm film, the footage captures the natural beauty of wildlife with authentic grain, color shifts, and subtle camera movement. This nostalgic clip offers a peaceful glimpse into a summer day, perfect for nature documentaries, archival projects, or retro-themed content.

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: 123077122

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 nature footage for editors needing a brief wildlife cutaway of a bumblebee moving among garden flowers in rural Montana.
Period detail: The frames show soft 8mm color, close garden foliage, and no visible modern objects, with the 1975 Agate Springs setting supported by clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the patience of an unstaged home-movie observation, holding close on a bee as wind and camera movement shape the moment.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bumblebee, small purple flowers, broad green leaves, thin stems, dense garden undergrowth, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm grain, green color shift, slight softness, motion blur on the bee wings, and handheld framing that give useful archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, nature transition, seasonal cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a rural home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a small-scale garden wildlife encounter in the mid-1970s rather than a public event or identifiable landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, or private interiors are visible, but copyright and any location-related permissions should be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1970s 8mm bumblebee footage, Montana home movie garden flower, vintage bee taking off, and archival nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other 1975 Agate Springs material, then broader vintage garden or insect wildlife footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 8mm home-movie frame from Agate Springs, Montana, showing a bumblebee near purple flowers amid dense green foliage. — A bumblebee is partly visible among leaves and purple garden flowers.

A bumblebee hovers or lifts off near purple flowers in a 1975 Agate Springs, Montana garden scene on 8mm film. — The bee appears in motion beside small purple flowers and broad leaves.

Close 8mm view of a bumblebee at a purple flower with layered green leaves, supported as Agate Springs, Montana, 1975 by metadata. — A bumblebee rests or feeds near the flower cluster in dense foliage.

The bee is motion-blurred above purple flowers in this 1975 8mm garden view from Agate Springs, Montana. — The bee lifts away from the flowers as the surrounding foliage blurs softly.

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