Canada-1979: Meeting of the Waters Confluent at Alt. 4483

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationCanada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 Canada

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Meeting of the Waters Confluent at Alt — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a serene mountain landscape in Canada. The footage shows a calm body of water nestled at the base of a snow-capped peak, surrounded by dense evergreen forests under a cloudy sky. A wooden sign clearly reads 'Meeting of the Waters Confluent alt. 4483', marking the confluence of the Yoho and Kicking Horse Rivers. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural film imperfections. This archival footage is ideal for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic projects exploring Canadian wilderness and 1970s home movie aesthetics.

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: 123091716

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 home-movie footage suited to editorial requests for mountain scenery, river confluence signage, and 1970s travel inserts.
Period detail: The visible roadside-style sign, 8mm color rendering, and visitor viewpoint support a late-1970s travel-film context without adding claims beyond the supplied 1979 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects a visitor pausing to record both the scenic mountain waterway and the identifying confluence sign for a personal travel record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include snow-capped mountains, evergreen forest, cloudy sky, calm water, a small structure or sign shelter, and a red confluence sign.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, muted color, slight exposure variation, and gate or contact-sheet edge artifacts that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a geographic insert, travel-memory cutaway, or quiet transition into Canadian wilderness and river-confluence material.
Historical context: The frames show Canadian mountain tourism or park visitation through a home-movie lens, with landscape and signage emphasized over human activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but sign text, location identification, copyright, and any property permissions should still be reviewed.
Research search match: Researchers may find this for searches such as 1979 Canada 8mm mountain landscape, Yoho Kicking Horse River confluence sign, or vintage park travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then with other 1979 Canada or Yoho-area travel footage, then with mountain river and national-park visitor themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 Canada 8mm frame showing a shadowed mountain waterway, evergreen slopes, cloudy sky, and distant snow patches. — Mountain water and forested slopes under cloud cover.

1979 Canada 8mm frame with a snow-capped peak, dense evergreen forest, still water, and a dark vertical foreground shape. — Snow-capped peak beyond forest and water.

1979 Canada 8mm frame showing a red sign marking Meeting of the Waters Confluent with altitude 4483 and river names partly visible. — Confluence sign marking Meeting of the Waters.

1979 Canada 8mm frame showing the Meeting of the Waters Confluent sign, with Yoho River and Kicking Horse River text partly readable. — Close view of the Meeting of the Waters confluence sign.

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