Bethlehem Israel-1976: Video Of Telephone Poles For Utility Poles And

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Year1976
Decade1970s
LocationBethlehem, Israel
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1976 Israel

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Video Of Telephone Poles For Utility Poles And — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1976, this clip captures a desolate landscape in Bethlehem, Israel, viewed through a dark frame. The scene features a barren, rocky terrain with a distant mountainside and sparse vegetation. Two utility poles stand prominently in the foreground, with faint power lines stretching across the frame. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, slight motion blur, and vertical film scratches, evoking a nostalgic, archival quality. The muted tones and static composition suggest a quiet, observational moment from a home movie.

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: 127396727

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 1239 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: holy land trip,march,jerusalem,bethleham
Reel-level year note: 1976
Reel-level location note: israel,zurich,switzerland
Date: 1976 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: Bethlehem, Israel 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 1970s archival requests needing a quiet Bethlehem-area landscape cutaway with utility poles, rocky terrain, and observational home-movie texture.
Period detail: The 8mm look, muted color, and sparse roadside utility infrastructure support a 1976 home-movie reading, while the visible scene itself is mostly timeless terrain.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds from behind a dark window or frame, giving the clip the feel of a traveler observing a dry landscape in passing rather than staging a subject.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two utility poles, faint overhead wires, rocky open ground, distant hillside, sparse trees or brush, and dark vertical framing at the sides.
Film character: The footage carries soft 8mm grain, uneven exposure, slight blur, gate framing, and small scratches that read as original physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, travel transition, infrastructure cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a 1970s Middle East sequence.
Historical context: The clip may show the everyday outskirts of Bethlehem in the mid-1970s, emphasizing arid terrain and basic utility infrastructure rather than a landmark view.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are apparent, but copyright, location context, and any property or infrastructure permissions should still be reviewed for the intended use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s Bethlehem 8mm landscape, Israel utility poles home movie, Middle East roadside cutaway, and vintage barren hillside footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1976 Bethlehem or Israel material, then broader 1970s arid landscape and utility-infrastructure cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 8mm view of a barren Bethlehem-area landscape, partially obscured by dark framing, with faint utility lines and hillside beyond. — A dry landscape and distant slope appear behind dark film or window framing.

Bethlehem, Israel, 1976: two utility poles and faint wires cross a dry rocky landscape with low hillside vegetation in the background. — Utility poles stand across a barren landscape with a rocky hillside behind them.

1976 8mm Bethlehem landscape with utility poles in the foreground, dry open ground, and a rocky slope with sparse trees beyond. — A static utility-pole cutaway shows dry ground and a distant rocky slope.

Bethlehem, Israel, 1976: muted 8mm frame of utility poles and faint wires set against dry terrain and a scrub-covered hillside. — Utility poles and thin wires mark the foreground of a dry hillside landscape.

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