Scapegoat Wilderness Montana USA .Mp-1973: Beaver Swimming Half Submerged In Pond

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationScapegoat Wilderness, Montana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Scapegoat Wilderness Montana

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Scapegoat Wilderness Montana USA — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1973, this vintage home movie captures a beaver swimming through a calm pond in Scapegoat Wilderness, Montana. The animal’s head and back emerge from the greenish water, creating gentle ripples as it moves. Lush green trees and foliage line the shoreline, viewed through a slightly weathered lens with visible film grain, scratches, and vertical artifacts. The footage has a nostalgic, authentic feel, offering a rare glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat during the early 1970s.

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: 123081973

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 1764 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: III-09,scapegoat
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: lincoln nebraska,montana
Date: 1973 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: Scapegoat Wilderness, 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 footage for documentary or educational edits needing a brief beaver-in-pond nature insert from Montana wilderness.
Period detail: The soft 8mm color, visible gate edges, and film wear support an early-1970s home-movie origin, while the frames show only pond, shoreline growth, and the swimming animal.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes quietly from a distance, giving the clip the unstaged value of a traveler or outdoor visitor recording wildlife without visible intervention.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a beaver partly above water, green pond surface, ripples, shoreline brush, reflected vegetation, dark frame borders, and film scratches.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, vertical marks, and contact-print framing that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, nature transition, wilderness memory beat, or visual bridge in a sequence about habitat and animal activity.
Historical context: The clip visually places wildlife observation within a 1970s outdoor home-movie record, without showing people, buildings, signage, or managed facilities.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location verification, and wildlife-use context should still be reviewed for the intended production.
Research search match: Useful search phrasing includes 1973 8mm beaver swimming, Montana wilderness pond wildlife, vintage home movie nature footage, and 1970s animal habitat cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Scapegoat Wilderness material, and then with broader vintage pond, forest, or North American wildlife footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Montana 8mm frame showing a beaver swimming low in green pond water with shoreline vegetation behind it. — A beaver moves across calm pond water near dense shoreline growth.

1973 Scapegoat Wilderness footage frame with a beaver half submerged, moving through reflective pond water. — The beaver continues swimming past reflected shoreline plants.

Vintage 8mm Montana wildlife frame showing a beaver partly submerged in pond water below soft green shoreline vegetation. — A low, distant view catches the beaver gliding through the pond.

1973 Montana 8mm frame of a beaver swimming half submerged across greenish pond water, with brush and reflections in the background. — The beaver passes through the frame, its wake spreading across the pond.

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