Sapphire Lake Montana USA-1977: Butterfly on Purple Aster and Red Wildflowers

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Year1977
Decade1970s
LocationSapphire Lake, Montana, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Butterfly on Purple Aster and Red Wildflowers — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1977, this vintage home movie captures a sun-drenched meadow at Sapphire Lake, Montana. A white butterfly flutters over a vibrant purple aster with a golden center, set against a backdrop of rocky ground and wildflowers. The scene transitions to a cluster of bright red Indian paintbrush blooms and scattered purple and yellow wildflowers, all bathed in natural light. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, offering authentic archival nature footage.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123097715

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 record not linked for this clip
Date: 1977 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual or technical evidence; no reel-level note is linked.
Location: Sapphire Lake, Montana, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate based on source metadata and visual evidence such as signage, landmarks, or terrain; no reel-level note is linked.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s 8mm nature footage for documentary or education edits needing a brief Montana meadow cutaway with butterfly and wildflower details.
Period detail: The frames show home-movie color, close handheld framing, and saturated floral subjects consistent with the supplied 1977 8mm metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged visitor perspective, lingering on small wildflowers and a butterfly rather than presenting a formal botanical survey.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a pale butterfly, purple aster-like flowers, red Indian paintbrush-like blooms, yellow wildflowers, green stems, rocky soil, and dark film edges.
Film character: The footage shows 8mm grain, soft focus in the close butterfly shot, saturated color, uneven exposure, and slight handheld instability as archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a nature insert, seasonal transition, travel-memory cutaway, or quiet visual beat within a western landscape sequence.
Historical context: The clip reflects recreational home-movie attention to wildflowers and small natural details at Sapphire Lake, Montana, without visible people or built structures.
Research note: No people, logos, music, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright and location-use review should still be handled separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1977 8mm Montana wildflowers, Sapphire Lake meadow, butterfly on purple flower, red paintbrush flowers, and vintage home movie nature.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent same-reel Sapphire Lake footage, then other 1977 Montana nature scenes, then broader 1970s home-movie wildflower or alpine meadow material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1977 8mm frame from Sapphire Lake, Montana showing a pale butterfly hovering near purple wildflowers on rocky soil. — A pale butterfly moves near purple flowers in a close, softly focused meadow shot.

1977 8mm Sapphire Lake meadow view with red wildflowers, small purple and yellow blooms, green stems, and rocky ground. — Red wildflowers stand among smaller purple and yellow blooms on stony ground.

1977 8mm frame at Sapphire Lake showing red wildflower clusters, purple blossoms, green foliage, and dark rocky soil. — A tight handheld view centers on red wildflower clusters in a rocky meadow patch.

1977 8mm Sapphire Lake frame with red wildflowers, low purple blossoms, green leaves, and high-contrast rocky soil. — Red and purple wildflowers fill the frame against a dark, stony meadow floor.

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