Canada-1979: Herd of Bison Resting in Grassy Field

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationCanada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 Canada

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Herd of Bison Resting in Grassy Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a herd of bison resting in a grassy field in Canada. The footage shows large, shaggy bison lying in the sun, with one prominently in the foreground and others scattered across the rolling landscape. The scene is framed by dark borders, typical of old Super 8 home movies, with visible film grain and warm, slightly faded colors. A wooden fence line appears in the distance, adding depth to the pastoral setting. The bison appear calm and undisturbed, embodying the quiet majesty of North American wildlife in its natural habitat.

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: 123085649

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 1792 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: tent trailer,VI-09,1
Reel-level year note: 1979
Reel-level location note: canada
Date: 1979 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: Canada 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: 1979 Canadian 8mm wildlife footage for documentary or educational requests needing quiet bison behavior in open grassland.
Period detail: The footage shows warm faded color, visible frame borders, and handheld 8mm texture consistent with late-1970s home-movie material.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged observer viewpoint, lingering on resting bison from a distance without visible people or intervention.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include resting bison, tall grass, rolling pasture, distant fence posts, dark film borders, soft focus, and muted green hills.
Film character: Grain, slight softness, warm color shift, and contact-frame borders give the clip a physical 8mm archive texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife cutaway, pastoral transition, or quiet memory beat within a Canadian travel or nature sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents bison at rest in a grassy Canadian landscape, offering visual context for wildlife viewing and open-range environments.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location permissions, and animal-facility context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1979 Canada 8mm bison, vintage home movie wildlife, resting bison herd, and Super 8 grassland animals.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1979 Canada wildlife scenes, then broader vintage North American grassland animal material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 Canadian 8mm frame showing a shaggy bison lying in grass, with another bison farther back and dark film borders. — Resting bison in a grassy field, framed by the dark edge of the 8mm scan.

1979 Canadian 8mm frame of a bison resting in grass, seen through a dark vertical film-divider edge. — Close view of a resting bison with another bison partly visible behind it.

Wide 1979 Canadian 8mm view of bison scattered across rolling grassland, with a fence line in the distance. — Wide pasture view with resting bison spread across the field.

Wide 1979 Canadian 8mm frame showing distant resting bison across a muted green field and hillside. — Distant bison rest across an open grassy landscape.

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