Alaska USA-1977: Grassy Banks and Evergreen Trees Surrounding a Serene Lake

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

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Grassy Banks and Evergreen Trees Surrounding a Serene Lake — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1977, this vintage home movie captures a serene Alaskan lake surrounded by lush green hills and scattered evergreen trees. The calm water reflects the overcast sky, with gentle ripples across the surface. The footage shows a natural, untouched landscape with grassy banks and dense foliage, conveying a peaceful, nostalgic atmosphere. The grainy texture and soft color palette are characteristic of Super 8 film from the late 1970s, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, nature projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 123112376

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: 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 Alaska 8mm nature footage suited to documentary cutaways, landscape inserts, and archival sequences needing a quiet lake and evergreen shoreline.
Period detail: The soft color, visible grain, and contact-print framing support a late-1970s home-movie look, while the landscape itself offers few date-specific clues.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the observational quality of a traveler or family filmmaker pausing on a lake view rather than staging an event or activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled lake water, grassy banks, low green hills, scattered evergreen trees, shrubs, shoreline rocks, and soft overcast light.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows muted color, moderate grain, slight softness, and steady framed views that give the landscape authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a calm establishing insert, nature cutaway, transition between travel scenes, or reflective memory beat.
Historical context: The footage documents a quiet natural setting in Alaska during the 1970s without visible people, structures, vehicles, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or private structures are visible, but users should still evaluate copyright, location context, and any production-specific property concerns.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1977 Alaska lake 8mm footage, vintage home movie evergreen shoreline, 1970s Alaskan nature cutaway, and grassy bank lake scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1977 Alaska landscapes, then broader vintage lake, evergreen forest, and travel-nature footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1977 Alaska 8mm frame showing rippled lake water, a green shoreline, shrubs, and scattered evergreen trees. — A quiet lake sits below grassy banks and evergreen trees.

1977 Alaska home-movie frame of a rippled lake bordered by green banks, shrubs, and dark evergreen trees. — Ripples cross the lake in front of a green, tree-lined bank.

1977 Alaska 8mm frame showing the lake edge, grassy bank, shrubs, and evergreen trees under muted light. — The lakeshore fills the frame with water, grass, shrubs, and evergreens.

1977 Alaska home-movie frame of calm lake water facing a grassy bank with shrubs and evergreen trees. — Evergreens stand along the grassy shoreline of the lake.

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