Messada Israel-1976: The Time I Made It To The Top Of The Mountain

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Year1976
Decade1970s
LocationMessada, Israel
Duration6s
Price$149 USD
Collection1976 Israel

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The Time I Made It To The Top Of The Mountain — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1976, this vintage home movie captures a rugged mountain landscape in Messada, Israel. The grainy, sun-bleached footage shows steep rocky slopes under a pale sky, with the camera panning across the arid terrain. The natural textures of the rock face and the film's characteristic grain evoke a sense of adventure and nostalgia. This archival clip offers authentic, unfiltered footage of a remote desert mountain, perfect for historical or nature-themed projects.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127398712

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: Messada, 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: 1976 8mm home-movie footage of the rocky ascent landscape at Messada, Israel, suited for documentary inserts about travel, desert terrain, or memory of visiting historic sites.
Period detail: The frames offer few date-specific clues beyond the 8mm home-movie format and metadata, showing sun-faded 1970s color exposure on an arid mountain slope.
Home-movie behavior: The handheld framing reads as a visitor pausing during a climb or lookout stop, scanning steep rock faces rather than staging a formal landscape view.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include jagged brown slopes, pale sky, eroded paths, shadowed rock openings, dry scrub, sandy foreground, and dark film-frame borders.
Film character: The clip carries coarse 8mm grain, muted sun-bleached color, gate edges, soft focus, and slight handheld instability that place it clearly within amateur physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief cutaway, travel-memory beat, ascent transition, or establishing insert for arid mountain terrain around Messada.
Historical context: The footage visually documents a tourist or home-movie encounter with a dry rocky landscape in Israel, without visible people, vehicles, signage, or dated public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but location and landscape use should still be reviewed separately from copyright and any site-access concerns.
Research search match: Searches such as 1970s 8mm Israel mountain footage, Messada home movie landscape, rocky desert slope travel film, and vintage Holy Land terrain may match this clip.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1976 Messada or Israel travel footage, then broader 1970s desert, mountain, and archaeological-site visit material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 8mm home-movie frame from Messada, Israel, showing a steep rocky hillside under a pale sky with soft grain and gate edges. — Steep rock face and pale sky during a visitor-shot mountain view at Messada.

1976 Messada 8mm frame showing an arid rock wall, a small shadowed opening, and muted color from aged home-movie film. — Rock wall and small dark opening on the arid mountainside.

Grainy 1976 8mm view of rugged Messada terrain, with uneven rock textures and dry scrub filling the frame. — Close handheld view of eroded rock textures on the mountainside.

1976 8mm home-movie frame from Messada showing sandy foreground, layered arid slopes, and handheld framing within dark film borders. — Layered desert slopes and sandy ground near the mountain path.

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