Canada-1979: Prairie Dog In Green Grass Looking For Food With Calm Waters

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationCanada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 Canada

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Prairie Dog In Green Grass Looking For Food With Calm Waters — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a prairie dog in a grassy field, foraging and then pausing to look around. The scene transitions to a serene lake with calm waters reflecting a cloudy sky, framed by distant snow-capped mountains. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel of a Canadian summer. The natural wildlife moment and tranquil landscape combine for a peaceful, authentic slice of life from the late 1970s.

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: 123091864

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 nature footage suited for documentary inserts about wildlife observation, road trips, park visits, or quiet landscape memory beats.
Period detail: The frames show late-1970s home-movie color and handling rather than date-specific objects, with prairie grass, a small wild animal, lake water, and snow-capped mountains.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor perspective, lingering briefly on a foraging animal before turning to a calm mountain lake view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a prairie dog in green grass, open ground, dark frame edges, still lake water, cloudy sky, mountain silhouettes, snow patches, and shoreline vegetation.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows soft focus, visible grain, uneven exposure, saturated greens and purples, and handheld framing typical of home-movie travel footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, a transition from animal detail to landscape, or a quiet pause in a Canadian travel sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a casual 1979 encounter with Canadian outdoor scenery, emphasizing ordinary travel observation rather than a staged nature production.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright, location permissions, and species identification should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1979 Canada 8mm wildlife footage, prairie dog in grass, vintage Canadian lake mountains, and home movie nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1979 Canada outdoor scenes, then broader vintage wildlife, lake, mountain, or travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 Canadian 8mm frame showing a small prairie dog or similar rodent bent down in green grass. — A small prairie dog forages low in a grassy field.

1979 Canadian 8mm frame with a prairie dog sitting upright in grass, seen from a low handheld viewpoint. — The prairie dog pauses upright in the grass.

1979 Canadian 8mm frame showing calm lake water, distant snow-capped mountains, and a cloudy sky. — A calm lake stretches toward dark mountains under heavy clouds.

1979 Canadian 8mm frame of still lake water with distant snow-capped mountains and muted cloud reflections. — Still water reflects a cloudy sky with mountains beyond the far shore.

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