Denali National Park Alaska-1980: Two Caribou Walking Across Tundra Below an Eroded, Gullied Hillside

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

Year1980
Decade1980s
LocationDenali National Park, Alaska, United States
Duration10s
Price$149 USD
Collection1980 · Denali National Park, Alaska, United States

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Explore this year and place

Compare featured footage, popular clips and the full collection.

Same year and place1980 · Denali National Park, Alaska, United StatesExplore footage →Across the archiveFilmed in 1980Explore the year →Across the yearsDenali National Park, Alaska, United StatesExplore the place →

What is in this clip

wildlife
Alaska tundra
national park travel
wilderness
animal movement
summer landscape
amateur nature filming

Shot type: wide
Camera: pan · handheld
Setting: outdoor · Shrub tundra at the foot of a steep, eroded hillside with gravel gullies and patches of dark shrub
Time and weather: day · summer · overcast
Lighting: Flat, diffuse daylight with no hard shadows
People: 0
Animals: caribou
Colors: green · grey-brown · muted violet · olive
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Low
Location confidence: Low

Moments in the footage

Select a time to watch that moment in the preview.

Two caribou walk right along the base of a gullied hillside above green tundra.
The darker caribou lowers its head toward the ground while the paler one walks ahead.
The camera pans slowly right as both animals keep a steady pace.
The pair continues right, heads up, against the pale gravel slope.

Two Caribou Walking Across Tundra Below an Eroded,... — Clip Details

Likely Denali National Park, Alaska, circa 1980 home movie footage of two caribou walking across green shrub tundra at the foot of an eroded, gullied hillside. A paler animal with a white neck leads while a darker one follows, briefly lowering its head before both continue steadily to the right. The single handheld shot is filmed from a distance on Super 8, panning slowly to keep the pair in a wide frame, with soft focus, grain and fairly natural greens.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Handheld
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 10s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800000775

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: 1980 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: Denali National Park, Alaska, 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

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Serves requests for circa 1980 Alaska wildlife and national park travel footage, giving documentaries and exhibits authentic Super 8 caribou on summer tundra.
Period detail: No dated objects appear, but the grain, soft focus and colour cast of amateur Super 8 reversal stock may show a late 1970s or early 1980s home movie look.
Home-movie behavior: A visitor films from a distance and pans to follow the animals, the patient, slightly unsteady view of a traveller watching wildlife rather than a professional crew.
What appears in frame: Two caribou, one pale with a white neck and one darker, walk across green tundra beneath a steep slope cut by pale gravel gullies and dark shrub patches.
Film character: Soft-focus Super 8 grain, a faint violet tint in the shadows and darkened projection corners give the shot an unmistakable small-gauge texture with relatively natural greens.
Edit role: Works as a wildlife cutaway or a quiet establishing beat for an Alaska trip sequence, and its slow pan offers an easy transition between landscape and people scenes.
Historical context: The setting fits the Denali park road area, which became Denali National Park and Preserve on December 2, 1980, after years as Mount McKinley National Park.
Research note: No people, faces, logos or private property appear; the film's copyright belongs to the home-movie source and is a separate matter from any likeness or property rights.
Research search match: Matches searches such as caribou on Alaska tundra Super 8, Denali wildlife home movie circa 1980, and vintage national park wildlife footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with the same reel's kuspuk dance, solo dancer, children dancing and blanket toss clips, then with circa 1980 Denali tundra and mountain shots, then with other wildlife-on-tundra material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two caribou walk below an eroded, gullied slope on green tundra, likely Denali National Park, Alaska, circa 1980 — A pale caribou leads a darker one along the foot of an eroded hillside, likely in Denali National Park, circa 1980.
License this still · $49

Darker caribou dips its head as the paler one walks ahead on tundra in Super 8 film, probably Denali, Alaska, circa 1980 — The darker caribou lowers its head toward the ground as the pair crosses the tundra.
License this still · $49

Two caribou walking right beneath a scarred mountain slope as the Super 8 camera pans, likely Denali National Park, circa 1980 — The handheld camera pans right to follow the two caribou past the scarred slope.
License this still · $49

Pale and dark caribou walk heads up across summer tundra before a gravel hillside, probably Denali, Alaska, circa 1980 — Heads up, the caribou keep moving right across the summer tundra at the end of the shot.
License this still · $49

Visually Similar Clips