Colorado USA-1973: Rustic Cabin with Santa Figure on Roof at Night

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationColorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 · Colorado, United States
StatusDirect License

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Rustic Cabin with Santa Figure on Roof at Night — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, capturing a rustic wooden cabin nestled in a snowy mountain forest at night. A colorful Santa Claus figure stands prominently on the cabin's roof, illuminated against the dark, blue-tinted landscape. The scene is framed by tall evergreen trees and a rocky cliff face, with a winding road and red-and-white posts visible in the foreground. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color shifts, evoking a nostalgic, retro holiday atmosphere perfect for documentaries, editorial content, or vintage-themed projects.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: ExteriorNight
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120957127

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$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 1382 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: air force academy,cripple creek,cheyne zoo,broadmoor,#2
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: colorado springs
Date: 1973 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: Colorado, United States 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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1973 Colorado 8mm home-movie footage offers a brief nighttime holiday exterior for documentary, education, or editorial sequences about roadside travel, mountain vacations, or vernacular Christmas display.
Period detail: The rustic wooden structure, simple roof-mounted Santa figure, red-and-white roadside posts, and blue night exposure may show an early-1970s tourist or vacation setting in the Colorado mountains.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds on the decorated cabin from a visitor's roadside viewpoint, preserving the kind of incidental seasonal detail often captured during family travel rather than staged production.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark wooden cabin, a Santa figure on the roof, snow patches, evergreen trees, a rocky cliff face, a curving road, and red-and-white posts in the foreground.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, deep blue color shift, low-light exposure, soft focus, and contact-print framing that give the scene a distinctly physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short holiday cutaway, nighttime mountain-travel insert, memory beat, or atmospheric transition within a 1970s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a small-scale seasonal display in a snowy mountain roadside environment, suggesting personal travel observation rather than a public ceremony or identified landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property or display permissions should be reviewed separately before reuse.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado 8mm cabin at night, vintage home movie Santa on roof, snowy mountain road holiday display, and Super 8 Christmas travel footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado travel scenes, and then with vintage winter, roadside, cabin, or Christmas display material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a rustic cabin at night with a Santa figure on the roof, snow patches, evergreens, and a rocky cliff behind it. — Cabin with rooftop Santa in a snowy mountain setting.
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1973 Colorado home-movie frame of a dark cabin beside snow and roadside posts, with a Santa figure on the roof against trees and a cliff face. — Rooftop Santa above a dark mountain cabin.
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1973 Colorado 8mm frame with the cabin partly at the left edge, a Santa figure near the roofline, red-and-white posts, snow patches, a road, and a rocky mountain wall. — Roadside view of the snowy cabin display.
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1973 Colorado frame showing the decorated cabin slipping toward the left edge while roadside posts, snow, trees, and the rocky cliff remain visible in low blue night exposure. — Snowy roadside posts beside the decorated cabin.
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