Alaska USA-1977: Bearded Man Laying On Ground Sunbathing Beside River

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Year1977
Decade1970s
LocationAlaska, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1977 Alaska

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Bearded Man Laying On Ground Sunbathing Beside River — Clip Details

A bearded man in a hat lies on a blue towel on the ground, sunbathing in the warm Alaskan sun. He rubs his neck while relaxing on the rocky shore, with a small boat passing on the water nearby. The scene captures a quiet moment of leisure by a river, filmed on 8mm film in 1977. The footage shows natural film grain, slight color fading, and a nostalgic, home-movie quality, evoking a sense of personal memory and vintage Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123094330

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 1785 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: tent trailer,VI-02
Reel-level year note: 1977
Reel-level location note: alaska
Date: 1977 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: Alaska, United States 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s Alaska home-movie requests needing leisure, travel, shoreline, river, or small-boat cutaway material.
Period detail: The clip may show 1970s casual outdoor clothing, an 8mm home-movie viewpoint, and a personal travel stop beside Alaskan water.
Home-movie behavior: The value is an unstaged rest moment, with the camera lingering on a sunbathing adult before turning to boats on the water.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a bearded man in a cap, a blue towel, rocky ground, blue water, wooded shoreline, mountains, and small passing boats.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm grain, blue-purple color shift, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that read as original home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet travel insert, vacation memory beat, river cutaway, or transition from personal leisure to landscape.
Historical context: The scene reflects casual outdoor recreation during a filmed Alaska trip, without enough visual evidence to identify the exact river or settlement.
Research note: An adult face is partly visible, so likeness review may be needed in addition to separate copyright and location-use checks.
Research search match: Searches this may answer include 1977 Alaska home movie, 8mm man sunbathing by river, Alaskan shoreline boat, and vintage travel leisure footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1977 Alaska waterway scenes, then broader 1970s outdoor vacation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

Adult man in a cap sunbathing on a blue towel beside an Alaskan waterway in 1977 home-movie footage. — A man reclines on a towel along the rocky shore.

The reclining man rubs or holds his neck while resting on a blue towel in 1977 Alaska home-movie footage. — The sunbather shifts his hand near his neck while resting.

A handheld view across an Alaskan waterway shows mountains, shoreline, and a small boat passing near the foreground. — The camera looks across the water toward mountains and shore.

A small boat travels across an Alaskan waterway below a dark wooded shore in 1977 home-movie footage. — A small boat crosses the water near the far shoreline.

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