Glacier Bay Alaska USA-1977: Map View Of Glacier Bay

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

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Map View Of Glacier Bay — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1977, this vintage home movie clip presents a detailed map of Glacier Bay, Alaska. The camera slowly pans across the hand-drawn map, highlighting key locations such as Willoughby Island, Bartlett Cove, and Gustavus. The map features blue waterways, beige landmasses, and handwritten annotations, including a note about the Glacier Bay Ice Sheet. The footage exhibits classic 8mm film grain, slight color fading, and a warm, nostalgic tone, capturing a moment of travel planning or geographical education from the era.

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: 123095477

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 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: Glacier Bay, 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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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s documentary requests needing an archival map insert of Glacier Bay, Alaska from visitor-shot 8mm travel footage.
Period detail: The frames show a printed or hand-drawn Glacier Bay map with muted 1970s home-movie color, rounded frame edges, and visible 8mm projection texture.
Home-movie behavior: The clip reflects a traveler or tour participant filming a reference map to orient the journey rather than staging a scenic view.
What appears in frame: Visible details include Glacier Bay waterways, Willoughby Island, Bartlett Cove, Gustavus, Pleasant Island, map labels, beige land areas, and black frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, warm fading, grain, slight exposure falloff, and contact-sheet framing typical of scanned 8mm home movies.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a geographic cutaway, travel-planning insert, route transition, or quiet context beat before Glacier Bay exterior footage.
Historical context: The map situates Glacier Bay as a visitor destination and geographic subject, showing how travelers documented place information alongside landscape material.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but map artwork and any underlying copyright should be reviewed separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1977 8mm Glacier Bay Alaska map footage, vintage Alaska travel map, Gustavus Bartlett Cove home movie, and archival geography cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1977 Glacier Bay or Alaska travel footage, then broader vintage map, route, and nature-travel inserts.

Still Frames From This Clip

1977 8mm frame showing a Glacier Bay, Alaska map section with waterways, islands, Gustavus, and Bartlett Cove visible. — Map detail of Glacier Bay with Willoughby Island, Bartlett Cove, Gustavus, and surrounding waterways.

1977 8mm frame of a Glacier Bay map showing island names, Bartlett Cove, Gustavus, and a note near the lower left. — Wider map view with Glacier Bay place names, island labels, and Gustavus near the lower center.

1977 8mm frame showing a closer Glacier Bay, Alaska map view with Drake Island, Willoughby Island, Beardslee Islands, and Bartlett Cove. — Closer map detail of central Glacier Bay, with island labels and Bartlett Cove near the lower frame.

1977 8mm frame of the Glacier Bay map centered on island labels, blue water channels, and beige shoreline areas. — Map-centered frame showing Glacier Bay islands, waterways, and surrounding shoreline labels.

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