Messada Israel-1976: Rocky Landscape With Two Big Rocks Forming A Natural And

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

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Rocky Landscape With Two Big Rocks Forming A Natural And — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1976, this vintage home movie captures a rugged, rocky landscape in Messada, Israel. The grainy, monochrome footage shows layered rock formations and uneven terrain, with a low stone wall visible in the distance. The camera pans slowly across the arid, natural environment, emphasizing the raw textures and geological patterns of the desert. The footage has a nostalgic, archival quality, evoking mid-20th century travel and exploration. Ideal for historical documentaries, nature projects, or retro-themed content.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Black & white
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127398724

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: 1970s 8mm travel footage from Messada, Israel, suited to documentary cutaways needing arid rock formations and visitor-shot desert landscape views.
Period detail: The footage may show a 1976 tourist perspective, with visible era clues limited to handheld 8mm framing, muted color, grain, and scanned film borders.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the landmark terrain from a visitor's viewpoint, lingering on rock texture, a small cave-like opening, stonework, and the distant landscape.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include layered pale rock, dark film frame edges, scattered stones, a small opening in rock, a low stone wall, open ground, and a hazy horizon.
Film character: The scan carries 8mm home-movie texture, with coarse grain, soft focus, slight exposure shifts, muted color, and handheld framing visible as part of the archive record.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief establishing insert, landscape cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition into material about desert sites in 1970s Israel.
Historical context: The clip documents a visitor's visual encounter with an arid rocky site near Messada, emphasizing landscape texture rather than people or organized activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location access, and any property or archaeological-site permissions should be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful searches include 1976 8mm Messada Israel rocky landscape, vintage home movie desert rock formations, and Super 8 travel footage Israel stone wall.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent reel shots, then other 1976 Messada or Israel travel views, then broader 1970s desert landscape and archaeological-site footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 8mm view from Messada, Israel, showing pale layered rock, scattered stones, and visible film gate edges. — Layered rock surface and scattered stones fill the frame at the start of the clip.

1976 8mm Messada, Israel frame showing a close rocky surface with rippled texture, loose stones, and dark scan borders. — A close view emphasizes the rippled surface and loose stones on the rocky terrain.

1976 8mm view at Messada, Israel, showing layered pale rock and a small dark cave-like opening in the formation. — Layered stone surrounds a small dark opening in the rocky landscape.

1976 8mm Messada, Israel view showing a low stone wall, open ground, distant hills, and a hazy desert horizon. — A low stone wall crosses the foreground with distant hills visible beyond it.

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