Canada-1979: Animal Foraging Near Creek Bed With Rocks And Grass

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationCanada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 Canada

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Animal Foraging Near Creek Bed With Rocks And Grass — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a natural scene in Canada. The footage shows a small animal, possibly a groundhog or marmot, moving through grass near a rocky creek bed. The setting features lush green vegetation, scattered rocks, and a shallow stream flowing over stones. The image has the characteristic grain and color palette of Super 8 film, with a dark border suggesting it was filmed through a window or frame. The animal forages in the grass before moving toward the water's edge, offering a candid glimpse of wildlife in a rural environment.

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: 123091841

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 home-movie requests needing brief wildlife, creekside nature, or rural landscape cutaways for documentary or educational edits.
Period detail: The visible scene offers few date-specific clues, though the 8mm scan, soft color, and metadata support a 1979 home-movie wildlife moment in Canada.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged home-movie feel, with the camera observing a small animal moving through grass near a rocky creek bed rather than arranging a formal wildlife shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a small foraging animal, green grass, a rocky creek bed, shallow water, shrubs, earth banks, scattered stones, and dark frame edges.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm texture through visible grain, soft focus, muted color, slight blur, and dark gate or window-like borders around the scanned frame.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, rural nature cutaway, quiet transition, or memory beat within a sequence about outdoor travel or Canadian landscapes.
Historical context: The clip documents a casual 1970s amateur view of wildlife in a natural creekside setting without visible people, buildings, vehicles, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification and any location-specific claims should be checked separately from copyright clearance.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1979 Canada 8mm wildlife footage, small animal by creek, rocky stream bed home movie, or vintage rural nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with 1979 Canada outdoor scenes, then with broader 1970s wildlife, creek, grassland, and home-movie nature material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 Canada 8mm frame showing a rocky creek bed, green shrubs, grass, and scattered stones with dark film-frame edges. — A rocky creek bed and shrubs appear beyond grass in a dark-bordered 8mm frame.

1979 Canada 8mm frame of a shallow rocky creek area with foreground grass, shrubs, stones, and dark vertical borders. — The camera holds on grass and a rocky creek bed with shrubs along the edge.

1979 Canada 8mm frame showing a rocky stream bed, grass, a pale boulder, shrubs, and shaded earth banks. — A pale rock sits near the grass as the rocky stream bed continues into the background.

1979 Canada 8mm frame with a small, possibly groundhog-like animal moving through green grass near the creek area. — A small animal moves through the grass, partly blurred by motion and soft focus.

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