British Columbia Canada-1979: Animal Resting On Mountainous Rock

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Year1979
Decade1970s
LocationBritish Columbia, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1979 British Columbia Canada

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Animal Resting On Mountainous Rock — Clip Details

A small, dark-furred animal, likely a marmot or groundhog, rests on a rocky outcrop in a mountainous landscape. Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures the creature perched atop large, weathered stones with snow-covered slopes in the background. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, soft focus, and natural lighting, evoking a sense of quiet wilderness. The animal remains mostly still, occasionally shifting its position, offering a candid glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat.

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: 123103771

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 1792 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: tent trailer,VI-09,1
Reel-level year note: 1979
Reel-level location note: canada
Date: 1979 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: British Columbia, Canada 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 British Columbia wildlife home-movie footage for documentary or educational sequences needing a quiet mountain animal cutaway.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1970s amateur 8mm filming, with no visible modern objects, signage, vehicles, or clothing to refine the period beyond the supplied metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the animal from a visitor or traveler viewpoint, holding on a small natural moment rather than staging action.
What appears in frame: A dark-furred animal rests among pale rocks, weathered boulders, snow-streaked mountain slopes, soft daylight, and visible film-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has soft focus, muted exposure, 8mm grain, slight handheld instability, and contact-print framing that give it physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a wildlife insert, mountain travel cutaway, quiet transition, or reflective memory beat within a British Columbia or nature sequence.
Historical context: The frames place a small wild animal in a rocky alpine setting, showing recreational or observational nature filming rather than a managed wildlife scene.
Research note: No people, brands, or private property are visible, but species identification remains uncertain and copyright licensing is separate from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1970s 8mm British Columbia wildlife, marmot on rocks, alpine animal home movie, or vintage mountain nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel material, then with British Columbia 1979 travel footage, and then with broader 1970s mountain wildlife or alpine nature clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

Small dark-furred animal, likely marmot or groundhog, resting among rocks in 1979 British Columbia mountain footage. — A small animal rests behind pale rocks with snow-streaked slopes in the background.

Dark-furred mountain animal crouches on a rock ledge in archival 8mm footage from British Columbia, Canada. — The animal remains low against a rock ledge beneath a snow-marked slope.

Likely marmot or groundhog rests among large boulders in a British Columbia mountain landscape shot on 8mm film. — A low, dark animal shape sits among boulders against a pale alpine backdrop.

Small dark-furred animal stays nearly still on pale rocks in 1979 British Columbia alpine home-movie footage. — The animal remains on the rock ledge as the soft 8mm frame holds the mountain setting.

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