Idaho USA-1972: Desert Landscape With Volcanic Mountain Zooming In

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Year1972
Decade1970s
LocationIdaho, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1972 Idaho

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Desert Landscape With Volcanic Mountain Zooming In — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1972, this vintage home movie captures a vast desert landscape in Idaho, viewed through a window frame. The scene unfolds with a wide, arid plain under a dramatic purple-tinged sky, where a prominent volcanic cone rises in the distance. The camera slowly zooms in, bringing the isolated mountain into sharper focus against the expansive, flat terrain. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a sense of quiet isolation and mid-century Americana. Ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123081007

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1972 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Idaho, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s Idaho or American West productions needing a quiet 8mm landscape insert of open desert terrain and a distant volcanic-looking mountain.
Period detail: The visible period clues come mainly from the 8mm home-movie format, purple-shifted color, soft focus, and handheld zoom rather than dated objects in the landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The clip preserves an unstaged traveler viewpoint, filming a remote horizon through a dark window or vehicle frame as the camera studies the mountain from a distance.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a flat arid plain, sagebrush or low scrub, distant volcanic cone, purple-blue sky, scattered clouds, dark window framing, and film grain.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, magenta-purple color shift, soft telephoto focus, slight gate shadow, and a slow zoom that reads as physical home-movie observation.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a geographic establishing insert, road-trip cutaway, quiet transition, or memory beat for remote Western travel and volcanic terrain.
Historical context: The scene reflects a 1970s home-movie record of open Idaho desert space, emphasizing distance, sparse vegetation, and roadside observation rather than a named landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but location identity and copyright status should still be confirmed through source records.
Research search match: Search phrases include 1972 Idaho 8mm desert landscape, vintage home movie volcanic cone, American West arid plain, and Super 8 mountain zoom.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1972 Idaho landscapes, then broader 1970s American West desert and road-travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1972 Idaho 8mm frame showing open desert scrub, distant volcanic-looking hills, purple sky, and dark window framing. — Wide desert view with distant hills and cloud cover, seen through a dark frame.

Idaho desert landscape on 8mm film with two distant volcanic-looking forms and a central dark window divider. — Distant volcanic-looking hills across a flat desert plain.

1972 Idaho home-movie frame with a zoomed view of a rounded volcanic-looking mountain beyond desert scrub. — Zoomed desert horizon with a rounded mountain in the distance.

Zoomed 8mm view of a rounded volcanic-looking Idaho mountain across open desert, with magenta color shift and grain. — Closest view of the distant rounded mountain across the desert plain.

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