Canada-1979: Squirrel Searching For Hidden Food In The Grass

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationCanada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 Canada

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Squirrel Searching For Hidden Food In The Grass — Clip Details

A 1979 8mm home movie clip captures a squirrel foraging in grassy terrain, its fur a mix of brown and gray as it searches for hidden food. The animal moves cautiously across the frame, sniffing the ground and pausing to nibble. Shot on vintage 8mm film, the footage shows natural grain, soft focus, and a slightly faded color palette typical of home movies from the era. The scene unfolds in a quiet outdoor setting, likely a backyard or park in Canada, with no people or artificial structures visible. The camera remains mostly steady, offering a candid glimpse of wildlife behavior.

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: 123091849

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 a brief wildlife foraging cutaway or natural backyard animal behavior insert.
Period detail: The visible clues are mainly the soft 8mm color, grain, and handheld framing, with no landmarks or built features to confirm a more specific Canadian setting.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the squirrel at ground level from a candid distance, preserving an unstaged home-movie record of small wildlife moving through grass.
What appears in frame: A squirrel, patchy grass, low weeds, scattered stones, earth, and dark contact-sheet frame borders are visible across the four frames.
Film character: The clip has a muted 8mm palette, visible grain, soft focus, slight motion blur, and uneven contact-sheet exposure that give it authentic archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short wildlife insert, quiet transition, seasonal cutaway, or memory beat within a nature, suburbia, or Canadian home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The footage shows ordinary small-animal behavior in an open grassy area, suggesting a casual domestic or park-like setting without supported social or event context.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, brands, or obvious private structures are visible, but copyright and any location-specific permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1979 Canada 8mm squirrel foraging, vintage home movie wildlife, squirrel in grass, or 1970s backyard nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with nearby shots from the same reel, then other Canada 1979 home-movie material, then broader 1970s wildlife or backyard nature clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 Canadian 8mm frame showing a brown-gray squirrel low in grass, partly softened by grain and focus. — A squirrel pauses close to the ground among grass and scattered stones.

The squirrel crosses the grass in a soft, grainy 8mm frame from the 1979 Canada clip. — The squirrel moves laterally through the grassy area, blurred by motion and film softness.

A softly focused 8mm frame shows the squirrel low in uneven grass, with the contact-sheet border visible. — The squirrel remains close to the ground while moving through thicker grass.

The squirrel appears more clearly in grass, facing left in a muted 1979 Canadian 8mm home-movie frame. — The squirrel lifts its head slightly while partly hidden by grass.

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