Vancouver Bc Canada-1968: Large Herd Of Bison Peacefully Grazing In Large Field

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Year1968
Decade1960s
LocationVancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Large Herd Of Bison Peacefully Grazing In Large Field — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1968, this vintage home movie captures a large herd of bison grazing peacefully across a vast grassy plain in Vancouver, BC, Canada. The footage, viewed through a film projector's frame, shows the animals moving slowly across the open landscape under a cloudy sky, with distant mountains forming a blue silhouette. The scene is imbued with the characteristic grain, color shift, and soft focus of Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. A lone bison walks in the foreground while the herd spreads across the midground, offering a serene glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat.

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: 124631760

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 1126 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: parade,donner pass
Reel-level year note: 1967-1968
Reel-level location note: reno,spokane,vancouver
Date: 1968 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: Vancouver, 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: Useful for 1960s wildlife, prairie, and travel-documentary sequences needing bison herd cutaways from archival 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The scene shows 8mm color footage with soft focus, projected-frame edges, and 1960s home-movie color shift, while the landscape itself has few date-specific clues.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes from a roadside or viewing area as bison graze at a distance, giving the clip an unstaged visitor-shot wildlife perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wide grassy plain, a large bison herd, distant blue mountains, cloudy sky, roadside posts, sage-like brush, and dark projector-frame borders.
Film character: The footage has dense 8mm grain, blue-magenta color bias, soft focus, mild exposure variation, and a steady but informal home-movie viewpoint.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife insert, regional travel cutaway, quiet transition, or memory beat between broader landscape or animal sequences.
Historical context: The clip documents mid-century amateur travel filming of bison in open grassland near the stated Vancouver, British Columbia location without proving a specific park or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any land or wildlife management permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1968 8mm bison herd footage, vintage Canadian wildlife grazing, home movie buffalo on plains, and mountains behind open pasture.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel footage, then other 1968 Vancouver or British Columbia travel scenes, then broader vintage bison, grazing wildlife, and mountain landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1968 8mm home-movie frame of bison grazing on open grassland near the stated Vancouver, British Columbia location, with mountains in the distance. — A bison herd spreads across the grassland beneath a cloudy sky and distant mountain ridge.

Bison graze across a broad field in this 1968 8mm frame, with a white roadside marker and blue mountain ridge visible beyond. — Scattered bison graze across the field as a roadside marker stands in the foreground.

A wider 1968 8mm view shows many bison feeding across open grassland, framed by distant mountains and dark film edges. — The herd clusters across the midground of the open field, with hills and clouds beyond.

Final 1968 8mm frame of bison grazing across a grassy plain, with low brush, roadside posts, and mountains in the background. — Bison continue grazing across the plain while low brush and a blue mountain ridge fill the background.

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