Glacier Bay Alaska USA-1977: Dolphin Swimming Through Icy Waters

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

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Dolphin Swimming Through Icy Waters — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1977, this vintage home movie captures a dolphin swimming through icy waters in Glacier Bay, Alaska. The clip shows the marine mammal gliding beneath the surface, leaving a trail of ripples and bubbles, with floating ice chunks scattered across the cold blue-green sea. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight color fading, and natural film imperfections, offering an authentic glimpse of wildlife in a remote Arctic environment. This archival clip is ideal for documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content about marine life.

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: 123096437

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: 1970s 8mm wildlife footage suited to documentary or educational requests for marine life moving through icy Alaskan waters.
Period detail: The visible clues are the 8mm frame texture, faded blue-green color, and metadata-supported 1977 Glacier Bay setting, with no modern objects or landmarks visible.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the patient, observational feel of a traveler filming wildlife from a distance as the animal briefly surfaces among small ice pieces.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark marine mammal at the water surface, ripples, bubble trails, scattered white ice chunks, blue-green water, and film gate edges.
Film character: The footage shows soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, handheld framing, and dust marks consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, cold-water transition, Alaskan travel cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a nature sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a brief home-movie view of marine wildlife in Glacier Bay waters without showing people, vessels, buildings, or identifiable activity on shore.
Research note: No people, logos, music, or private property are visible, but species identification and copyright licensing should still be confirmed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1977 8mm Glacier Bay marine wildlife, dolphin swimming in icy water, Alaska home movie ocean footage, and vintage cold-water animal clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then Glacier Bay or Alaska footage from 1977, then broader 1970s 8mm marine wildlife and icy-water travel scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1977 Glacier Bay 8mm frame showing a distant dark marine mammal surfacing in cold blue-green water with small ice pieces nearby. — A distant marine mammal surfaces among scattered ice pieces in blue-green water.

1977 Glacier Bay 8mm frame with a dark marine mammal gliding near the surface, leaving a wake among scattered ice chunks. — The animal moves across the icy water, trailing ripples and bubbles.

1977 Glacier Bay 8mm frame showing the marine mammal partly surfaced as it passes through cold water dotted with white ice fragments. — The animal remains partly surfaced while moving past small ice fragments.

1977 Glacier Bay 8mm frame of a dark marine mammal near the surface, with ripples, bubbles, and scattered ice in the water. — A dark marine mammal swims through icy water, leaving a small wake behind it.

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