West Virginia-1964: Deer Graze In Grass Near Highway Tunnel

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Year1964
Decade1960s
LocationWest Virginia, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Deer Graze In Grass Near Highway Tunnel — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1964, this vintage home movie captures a deer grazing in a grassy area near a wooded roadside. The grainy, low-light footage shows the animal moving slowly through the underbrush as a vehicle passes through a tunnel in the background. The scene, likely filmed from a moving car, features a dark, forested hillside and a rocky embankment, with a white road sign visible near the tunnel entrance. The footage has a nostalgic, authentic 1960s home movie quality with natural film grain and color shifts typical of Super 8 film from the era.

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: 125500812

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: 1964 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: West Virginia, 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: Useful 1960s West Virginia 8mm cutaway for documentary requests involving roadside wildlife, rural travel, forested highways, or home-movie views from a moving car.
Period detail: The footage may show mid-1960s roadside travel cues through the 8mm color stock, tunnel entrance, small white road sign, and undeveloped wooded highway setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler perspective, catching a deer and tunnel scenery briefly from what appears to be a passing vehicle rather than a composed wildlife setup.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a grazing deer, dark grass and underbrush, wooded hillside, rocky embankment, paved road, tunnel opening, and a small roadside sign.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries heavy grain, low-light exposure, soft focus, gate edges, and blue-purple color shifts that read as authentic physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, roadside transition, travel-memory beat, or atmospheric cutaway within a 1960s Appalachian or rural highway sequence.
Historical context: The scene places wildlife close to a wooded roadside and tunnel approach, offering visual context for mid-century personal travel through a rural mountainous landscape.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any roadway or tunnel property permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Matches searches for 1964 West Virginia 8mm deer footage, vintage roadside wildlife, home movie highway tunnel, rural Appalachian travel, and forest road cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1964 West Virginia travel footage, then broader 1960s roadside wildlife or highway tunnel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A deer stands in dim grass and underbrush near a wooded roadside in 1964 West Virginia 8mm footage. — A deer grazes in shadowy roadside grass below a wooded hillside.

The deer remains in the grass against a dark wooded slope, rendered with grainy 1964 West Virginia 8mm texture. — The animal is partly silhouetted against the dark roadside vegetation.

A paved road leads toward a tunnel opening below a rocky wooded embankment in 1964 West Virginia travel footage. — The view shifts to the roadway and tunnel entrance beyond the wooded slope.

The tunnel entrance and small roadside sign sit beside the paved road, with dark trees and rock visible in the 8mm frame. — A small sign stands near the tunnel approach along the wooded road.

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