Lake Tahoe California USA-1978: Aerial Shot Of Animal Skipping Across Green And Rocky Hills

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Year1978
Decade1970s
LocationLake Tahoe, California, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1978 California

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Aerial Shot Of Animal Skipping Across Green And Rocky Hills — Clip Details

Aerial view from a moving vehicle captures a deer running across a grassy, rocky hillside in Lake Tahoe, California, in 1978. Shot on 8mm film, the footage shows natural motion blur and grain, with vibrant green vegetation contrasting against brown earth. The camera pans across the landscape, briefly revealing a pine tree as the animal moves through the terrain. This vintage home movie offers authentic, nostalgic footage of wildlife in a mountainous natural setting.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: AerialExterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123102321

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: 1978 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: Lake Tahoe, California, 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: Supports 1970s documentary or editorial requests for Lake Tahoe wildlife, mountain terrain, and moving-vehicle home-movie nature coverage.
Period detail: The 8mm color stock, soft focus, grain, and handheld framing support the 1978 home-movie date supplied in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged observer viewpoint, with the camera trying to follow movement across a hillside from a moving position.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include green hillside vegetation, brown rocky soil, narrow dirt paths, dark frame edges, motion blur, and a partial pine tree.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft exposure, gate edges, and motion smear that give the brief wildlife view its physical-film texture.
Edit role: Editors can use it as a brief cutaway, travel-memory insert, nature transition, or establishing beat for mountain wildlife in the late 1970s.
Historical context: The frames show a natural Lake Tahoe hillside setting in archival home-movie form, without visible people, buildings, vehicles, or public landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-based permissions should still be checked separately.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1978 Lake Tahoe 8mm wildlife, California mountain hillside home movie, deer running terrain, and vintage nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then other Lake Tahoe 1978 footage, then broader 1970s California mountain and wildlife home movies.

Still Frames From This Clip

1978 Lake Tahoe home-movie frame of a green, rocky hillside with soft focus, motion blur, and dark gate edges. — A moving view crosses a green and rocky hillside with visible 8mm frame edges.

Lake Tahoe hillside terrain appears blurred as the 8mm camera moves across green vegetation and exposed brown earth. — The camera sweeps across hillside vegetation and rocky earth.

A soft 1978 Lake Tahoe frame shows a grassy, rocky slope during a fast handheld or moving-vehicle camera pass. — A blurred section of hillside fills the frame during the moving shot.

The final 8mm frame shows Lake Tahoe hillside vegetation, rocky earth, and a partial dark pine tree along the right edge. — The moving view passes a darker pine edge against the green hillside.

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