Glacier Bay Alaska USA-1977: Whale Surfaces In Calm Waters Near Rocky Shoreline

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

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Whale Surfaces In Calm Waters Near Rocky Shoreline — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1977, this vintage home movie captures a whale surfacing in the calm waters of Glacier Bay, Alaska. The clip shows the whale's dark back and fluke breaking the surface, creating ripples against a backdrop of rocky shoreline and rugged cliffs. The footage has a nostalgic, grainy quality with natural color tones typical of Super 8 film from the era. This archival clip offers authentic wildlife footage ideal for documentaries, nature projects, or historical content.

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: 123096625

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 home-movie footage for documentary or educational requests needing a brief whale surfacing moment in Glacier Bay, Alaska.
Period detail: The frames show grainy color 8mm footage with a rocky shoreline and calm water, while the 1977 date and Glacier Bay location are supported by the supplied metadata rather than visible signage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-filmed observational perspective, holding on the distant whale as it surfaces near shore without staged action or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include calm green-gray water, a dark whale back or fluke at the surface, spreading ripples, a pale rocky shoreline, rugged cliff faces, and contact-sheet film borders.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, visible grain, slight exposure fluctuation, muted color, and handheld framing consistent with scanned 8mm home-movie material.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife insert, travel-memory cutaway, nature transition, or evidentiary beat within a Glacier Bay or Alaska sequence.
Historical context: The imagery reflects recreational or amateur wildlife observation in a coastal Alaskan landscape, with no visible infrastructure, vessels, people, or identifying signs in these frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but users should separately assess copyright status and any wildlife or location-specific use requirements.
Research search match: Relevant searches might include 1977 8mm Glacier Bay whale surfacing, Alaska home movie whale near rocky shoreline, and vintage wildlife footage calm water fluke.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1977 Glacier Bay or Alaska footage, then broader vintage whale, coastal wildlife, or national-park travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1977 8mm Glacier Bay footage shows calm water beneath a rocky shore, with a distant dark whale shape just breaking the surface. — Whale shape near the rocky shoreline.

In the supplied Glacier Bay, Alaska setting, a dark whale form appears at the waterline near the rocky shore in soft 8mm color footage. — Whale surfacing near shore.

The whale's dark back or fluke is visible at the surface of calm Glacier Bay water, framed against a rugged rocky shoreline. — Whale back or fluke at the surface.

A blurred dark whale shape and small white surface disturbance appear near the rocky Glacier Bay shoreline in a soft, handheld 8mm frame. — Whale disturbance near the shore.

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