Colorado USA-1973: Man Feeding Birds in Park

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

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Man Feeding Birds in Park — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a man feeding young birds in a park under dark, blue-tinted lighting. The grainy, low-light scene captures a hand reaching toward a glowing blue patch on the ground, likely food, with a faint figure in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and color distortion, evoking a nostalgic, intimate moment of human-animal interaction. The dark, atmospheric visuals suggest nighttime or indoor filming with artificial light, creating a mysterious, archival mood. This authentic, unscripted moment offers rich texture and historical charm for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Night
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120957345

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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

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: This 1970s Colorado 8mm clip can support archive requests for low-light home-movie material showing a quiet human-animal interaction in a park setting.
Period detail: The visible period detail is limited by darkness, but the blue-tinted 8mm image, grain, and metadata-supported 1973 Colorado setting place it within a 1970s home-movie context.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value is in the small hand-level gesture of feeding or reaching toward young birds, filmed from a close, informal home-movie perspective.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark blue-lit ground area, a reaching hand, faint bird-like shapes near the lower frame, deep shadows, contact-print frame borders, and strong 8mm grain.
Film character: The clip has dense low-light exposure, blue color shift, soft focus, handheld instability, and visible film grain that read as authentic small-gauge archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief memory beat, atmospheric insert, or cutaway for themes of parks, animals, feeding, nighttime observation, or 1970s home movies.
Historical context: The footage suggests casual leisure or observation of birds in a park, but the dark exposure limits identification of species, setting details, and individual participants.
Research note: People or body parts are visible, so likeness review may be relevant even though no faces, logos, brands, or private property are clearly identifiable in these frames.
Research search match: Researchers might search for 1973 Colorado 8mm home movie bird feeding, dark Super 8 park animals, man feeding young birds, or blue-tinted low-light nature footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado park or nature scenes, and finally with broader home-movie clips of people feeding animals.

Still Frames From This Clip

Low-light 1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a faint hand extended toward a blue-lit patch on the ground, with surrounding details mostly obscured by darkness. — A hand reaches into a dark blue-lit scene.
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Low-light 1973 Colorado 8mm frame with a blue-lit patch on the ground and indistinct forms that may be birds or food, seen through heavy grain and shadow. — Blue-lit ground detail in a dark park scene.
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Low-light 1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a pale hand extended in darkness, with faint bird-like shapes or feeding activity near the lower part of the frame. — Hand extended toward faint shapes in the dark.
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Low-light 1973 Colorado 8mm frame with a visible hand near the center and faint blue-lit shapes below, consistent with the metadata description of feeding young birds. — A hand hovers near blue-lit shapes on the ground.
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