British Columbia Canada-1979: Amazing Animal Exploring The Lake And Looking For Food

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

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Amazing Animal Exploring The Lake And Looking For Food — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1979, this vintage home movie captures a shorebird wading through shallow water in British Columbia, Canada. The bird, likely a sandpiper, moves gracefully, its reflection rippling in the dark water as it probes the surface for food. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color saturation, with a brief shift to a blurry green foreground suggesting a change in focus or camera angle. This authentic archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse into nature, perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 123107029

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 8mm nature footage for documentary inserts needing a brief shorebird feeding moment on dark lake water.
Period detail: The clip may show late-1970s home-movie nature filming, with visible clues limited to 8mm texture, handheld framing, and saturated color rather than dated objects.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes a wild shorebird from a quiet distance, preserving the casual patience of an unstaged home-movie nature encounter.
What appears in frame: A small wading bird, shallow rippling water, dark reflections, film-frame borders, soft focus, and one bright green overexposed foreground passage are visible.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, muted low-light water tones, slight gate edges, soft focus, and exposure shifts that read as physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, lakeside transition, or reflective memory beat within a Canadian travel or nature sequence.
Historical context: The visible context is a quiet lakeshore wildlife observation in British Columbia, with no people, buildings, signs, or landmarks shown in the sampled frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or private property are visible, but species identification and copyright licensing should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Useful for searches such as 1979 British Columbia 8mm shorebird, vintage lake wildlife, sandpiper feeding, and home movie nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1979 British Columbia lake footage, then broader vintage shorebird or wetland wildlife scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1979 British Columbia 8mm frame showing a small shorebird wading in dark lake water with ripples and a faint reflection. — A small shorebird pauses in shallow water, its reflection softened by ripples.

A small shorebird moves low across rippling lake water in a grainy 1979 British Columbia home-movie frame. — The bird moves across the water surface, partly blurred by motion and film grain.

1979 British Columbia 8mm still of a small shorebird wading through dark shallow water, with ripples around its legs. — The shorebird wades through shallow water as circular ripples spread outward.

A bright overexposed 8mm frame from the 1979 British Columbia clip, with green foreground blur and lake texture at the top. — The view shifts into a bright, soft green foreground while water remains visible near the top edge.

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