Flathead National Forest Montana-1978: Campers in Rain Gear Gather Under Tarps at a Smoky Forest Camp

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Year1978
Decade1970s
LocationFlathead National Forest, Montana, United States
Duration10s
Price$149 USD
Collection1978 · Flathead National Forest, Montana, United States
StatusStockfilm Exclusive

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1978 · Holland Lake & Flathead National Forest · Reel 17405875 contains 20 published Stockfilm-exclusive clips. Watch them in reel order and review the available reel documentation.

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What is in this clip

backpacking
camp life
wet weather
outdoor recreation
group travel
wilderness
1970s outdoor clothing

Shot type: mixed
Camera: zoom · handheld
Setting: outdoor · Conifer forest clearing with beargrass meadow and a tarp-covered backcountry camp
Time and weather: day · summer · overcast and wet
Lighting: soft diffuse overcast daylight
People: 12 · A mixed group of adults and younger people in ponchos, down jackets and hooded rain jackets in blue, green, orange, yellow and white, standing and bending around a campfire.
Objects: tarps · clothesline · pink towel · laundry · campfire smoke · fallen log · beargrass stalks · conifer trees · ponchos · down jackets
Colors: green · dark brown · orange-red · pink · cream
Master dimensions: 3840 × 2160
Audio: Silent
Date confidence: Medium
Location confidence: Medium

Moments in the footage

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Wide view of a beargrass meadow with a tarp camp among conifers beyond.
The zoom moves past young firs toward the tarps and rising smoke.
The group comes into view under the tarps beside a hanging pink towel.
Close framing of campers in ponchos and rain jackets around the fire.

Campers in Rain Gear Gather Under Tarps at a Smoky... — Clip Details

Flathead National Forest, Montana, circa 1978 home movie footage. The shot opens wide on a damp meadow of beargrass stalks below a conifer stand, with a camp of pitched tarps and clotheslines on the slope above. A slow zoom closes in on a group in ponchos, down jackets and hooded rain jackets around a smoky fire, with a pink towel and other laundry hanging on a line. It is a single handheld Super 8 shot with soft focus and warm, saturated colour.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 10s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 800002563

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Minors are visible. Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip, and a sensitive-use review is recommended.

People visible: Yes
Minors visible: Yes
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

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Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel record not linked for this clip
Date: 1978 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: Flathead National Forest, Montana, 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Answers requests for genuine late-1970s backcountry camping footage, showing a group in rain gear at a tarp camp for history, outdoor-recreation or nostalgia productions.
Period detail: Puffy down jackets, a striped down coat, coated nylon rain shells and a dark poncho may show typical outdoor gear of around 1978.
Home-movie behavior: The group goes about camp chores in the wet, tending the fire and gear without posing, filmed by a member of the trip from across the meadow.
What appears in frame: A beargrass meadow and fallen log, young firs, several tarps strung between trees, rising campfire smoke, a pink towel on a clothesline, and campers in colourful rain gear.
Film character: Handheld Super 8 with visible grain, soft focus at the long end of the zoom, and warm saturated greens and reds give it an authentic home-movie texture.
Edit role: Works as a camp-life establishing shot that resolves into a group scene, or as a memory beat in a trip sequence.
Historical context: The checked facts place the trip in the Flathead National Forest, which manages most of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, and the clip shows a group camping there in wet weather.
Research note: Copyright in the film is separate from the likeness of the people shown, who are unidentified and may include minors; faces are soft but could be recognisable, so check likeness clearance for your use.
Research search match: 1970s backpacking camp in rain, Super 8 campers in ponchos, Montana wilderness home movie, group under tarps at campsite.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with this reel's South Holland Trail sign, log footbridge, waterfall and alpine lake shots, then with other Montana camping footage from the late 1970s, then with outdoor-recreation themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Beargrass meadow below a backpackers' tarp camp in conifer forest, Flathead National Forest, Montana, circa 1978 — The shot opens wide on a beargrass meadow, with the group's tarp camp among the conifers above.
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Zoom onto campers in colourful rain gear under tarps in a Montana forest clearing, circa 1978 — The zoom moves in past young firs toward the tarps and rising smoke.
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Backpacking group gathered under tarps with laundry on a line, Flathead National Forest, Montana, circa 1978 — The group stands under the tarps with laundry hung out on a line beside them.
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Campers in late-1970s ponchos, down jackets and hooded rain shells around a fire, Montana, circa 1978 — At the end of the zoom the group is close, in ponchos, down jackets and yellow and orange rain hoods around the fire.
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