Masada Israel-1976: Desert Landscape with Stone Wall and Water

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

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Desert Landscape with Stone Wall and Water — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1976, this vintage home movie captures a slow pan across a rugged desert landscape in Messada, Israel. The grainy footage shows a low stone wall in the foreground, shifting to reveal sandy terrain, sparse vegetation, and a vast body of water under a hazy sky. Distant mountains line the horizon, creating a sense of isolation and timelessness. The natural, unfiltered quality of the Super 8 film enhances the nostalgic, archival feel of this historical footage.

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: 6s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 127398731

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 useful for documentary or educational requests needing a slow desert-landscape view near Messada, Israel.
Period detail: The 1976 dating is supported by metadata, while the visible scene itself mainly shows timeless desert terrain, stonework, water, and distant mountains.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot perspective, slowly surveying the landscape from behind a low stone wall rather than staging a formal scenic composition.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pale sand, scattered rocks, a low stone wall, a large body of water, distant ridges, hazy sky, and sparse desert vegetation.
Film character: The 8mm scan carries soft grain, slight blur, muted color, and handheld framing that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a travel insert, location-establishing cutaway, reflective transition, or quiet memory beat.
Historical context: The footage documents a tourist-era view of arid terrain and water in Israel without showing people, signage, or identifiable activity.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1976 8mm Israel desert landscape, Messada travel footage, Dead Sea area home movie, and vintage water-and-mountain panorama.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1976 Messada or Israel travel footage, then broader desert, water, and mountain landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1976 Messada, Israel travel footage showing sandy ground, scattered rocks, a low wall, water, and distant mountains under a hazy sky. — A low stone wall frames a sandy desert view toward water and distant ridges.

1976 Messada, Israel home-movie frame with rocky desert ground, pale sand, water, and low mountains across the horizon. — The pan moves across a rocky desert overlook with water and mountains in the distance.

1976 Messada, Israel frame showing open desert ground, a dark horizontal ridge or shoreline, broad water, and hazy mountains. — Open sand and a dark distant line lead toward water beneath a hazy mountain horizon.

1976 Messada, Israel travel frame with a low stone wall, sandy ground, broad water, and muted mountains across the horizon. — The final view settles near a low stone wall with desert, water, and mountains beyond.

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