Idaho USA-1963: Blue Lake Surrounded by Green Mountains

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Year1963
Decade1960s
LocationIdaho, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1963 Idaho

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Blue Lake Surrounded by Green Mountains — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1963, this vintage home movie captures a serene view of a blue lake surrounded by green mountains in Idaho. The footage, framed by dark borders, shows gentle waves on the water's surface and rolling hills under a clear sky. The grainy texture and subtle color shifts are characteristic of Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel. The camera remains steady, offering a peaceful, timeless glimpse of nature.

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: 124934961

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: 1963 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: Idaho, 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: 1960s Idaho 8mm lake-and-mountain footage suited to documentary inserts, regional travel context, outdoor recreation sequences, or quiet landscape transitions.
Period detail: The clip may show a mid-century home-movie view from a small boat, with the 8mm frame borders, color shift, and steady scenic framing supporting the 1963 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The viewpoint feels like a visitor or family passenger filming across lake water from near the bow, preserving an unstaged travel memory rather than a composed scenic postcard.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include rippled blue lake water, a boat edge or bow, rolling green-brown hills, dark 8mm frame borders, bright daylight, and faint shoreline detail.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, slight softness, cool color cast, gate borders, and minor exposure variation that read as physical-film texture from a scanned home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a quiet cutaway, travel insert, memory beat, or transition between Idaho outdoor scenes and broader 1960s family-trip material.
Historical context: As visual context, the clip records a mid-century leisure view of lake and mountain terrain in Idaho without showing people, buildings, roads, or identifiable landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, audible music, or private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific permissions should still be reviewed before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1963 Idaho 8mm lake footage, vintage home movie mountain lake, blue water and green hills, and 1960s American travel landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other Idaho 1963 lake or mountain views, then broader 1960s home-movie nature and travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1963 Idaho 8mm frame showing rippled blue lake water, a boat edge, and green hills beyond the shoreline. — Lake water and distant hills viewed from near the edge of a boat.

1963 Idaho lake view on 8mm film, with choppy blue water, a curved boat edge, and rolling hills in the distance. — Choppy lake water passes beside the boat with hills across the shore.

1963 Idaho 8mm still with lake waves in the foreground, a boat edge at bottom, and a green-brown hillside beyond. — Waves fill the foreground below a sloped hillside across the lake.

1963 Idaho home-movie frame showing textured hills beyond blue lake water, with the boat edge visible in the foreground. — A boat-side view looks across rippled lake water toward textured hills.

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