Agate Springs Montana USA-1975: A Bee Gathers Pollen From A Yellow Flower

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

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A Bee Gathers Pollen From A Yellow Flower — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1975, this vintage home movie captures a close-up of a bee gathering pollen from a bright yellow flower in Agate Springs, Montana. The footage shows the insect perched on the flower's center, its wings slightly blurred in motion, surrounded by green leaves and dry grass. The warm, slightly faded color palette and visible film grain give the clip a nostalgic, archival quality, evoking a quiet moment of nature in the American West.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-upExterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123077967

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: Useful for 1970s 8mm nature cutaways, pollination references, and quiet rural American West inserts in documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The 1975 date is supported by metadata, while the visible clues are mainly the 8mm color stock, close focus, and home-movie handling rather than period-specific objects.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged observer's pause on a small outdoor detail, with the camera lingering on a bee and yellow flowers rather than a planned nature sequence.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include yellow flowers, a bee on a flower center, green leaves, dry grass, soft focus, daylight, and dark frame edges from the film scan.
Film character: The footage has warm faded color, visible grain, soft macro focus, slight motion blur, and handheld framing that read as physical 8mm home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a nature insert, seasonal transition, rural memory beat, or visual cutaway for pollination and landscape context.
Historical context: The scene shows a close outdoor nature observation in Agate Springs, Montana, without visible people, buildings, brands, or identifiable property.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any project-specific nature or location claims.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1975 8mm bee on yellow flower, Montana home movie pollination footage, vintage insect close-up, and rural nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel, then with other Agate Springs or Montana 1975 material, then with 1970s 8mm nature, flowers, insects, and rural daylight scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1975 8mm home-movie frame from Agate Springs, Montana, showing yellow flowers, green leaves, and dry grass before the bee close-up. — Yellow flowers appear among dry grass and low green leaves.

1975 Agate Springs 8mm frame with a softly focused bee positioned on the center of a yellow flower, with warm film color and dark edge falloff. — A bee rests on the center of a yellow flower in soft focus.

The bee is seen from the side on the flower's center.

1975 8mm frame showing a bee on a yellow flower in Agate Springs, Montana, with a translucent wing, soft macro focus, and warm faded color. — A bee remains on the yellow flower, its wing catching the light.

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