Canada-1979: Purple Rock With Large Orange Lichen Patch And Trees In Natural Setting

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationCanada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 Canada

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Purple Rock With Large Orange Lichen Patch And Trees In... — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie clip captures a close-up of a rugged rock face in a natural setting. The stone displays a striking mix of purple and gray tones, with a prominent orange lichen patch and smaller dark spots creating a textured, organic pattern. Green foliage is visible to the right, suggesting a forested environment. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, with slight camera movement revealing the rock's surface details. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet exploration and natural beauty from the late 1970s.

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: 123091558

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: Useful for 1970s Canadian nature, geology, forest-detail, or home-movie cutaway requests needing brief nonhuman archival texture.
Period detail: The 8mm color, visible grain, and handheld close framing support a late-1970s home-movie origin, though the rock and lichen themselves are not era-specific.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects an unstaged home-movie habit of pausing on a striking natural detail during outdoor travel or exploration.
What appears in frame: The frames show a purple-gray rock face, a large orange lichen patch, smaller dark spots, rough stone texture, deep shadow, and green foliage at the edge.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, warm color shifts, uneven exposure, and slight handheld movement that give the natural detail a physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a quiet nature insert, transitional cutaway, geology detail, or memory beat within travel and landscape sequences.
Historical context: The footage documents a casual 1979 Canadian outdoor observation rather than a public event, with attention on rock surface, lichen, and surrounding foliage.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location identification, and any land-access context should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Search matches include 1979 Canada 8mm nature footage, orange lichen on rock, purple rock face, forest cutaway, and vintage home-movie geology detail.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with same-reel outdoor shots, then other 1979 Canada nature material, then broader archival clips of rocks, lichen, trees, and forest textures.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 Canadian 8mm frame showing a purple-gray rock face with orange lichen, dark shadow, and green foliage at the side. — Purple-gray rock surface with orange lichen and nearby foliage.

1979 Canadian 8mm frame of a textured rock face with orange lichen, purple shadows, and greenery partly visible on the right. — Textured rock face with orange lichen and a sliver of foliage.

1979 Canadian 8mm frame showing a close rock detail with a large orange lichen patch, mottled dark spots, and purple-gray stone. — Large orange lichen patch on mottled purple-gray rock.

1979 Canadian 8mm frame of rough purple-gray rock with orange lichen, dark circular markings, and soft home-movie grain. — Rough stone surface with orange lichen and dark mottled markings.

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