Colorado USA-1973: Night Out At The Park With Blue-Lit Chipmunk Sign

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

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Night Out At The Park With Blue-Lit Chipmunk Sign — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a nighttime scene at a park or wildlife enclosure. The clip features a rocky, wooded area illuminated by a strong blue light, creating a surreal, atmospheric glow on the rocks and bare trees. A sign is visible with white text reading 'PLEASE FEED CHIPMUNKS HERE. DO NOT TOUCH,' indicating a designated feeding area. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film grain, slight motion blur, and a dark, moody ambiance typical of amateur 1970s home movies. This authentic archival material is ideal for documentaries, nostalgic content, or historical storytelling.

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: 120957379

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 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: Archival 1970s Colorado home-movie footage for productions needing a short nighttime park or wildlife-enclosure cutaway with a visible chipmunk-feeding sign.
Period detail: The visible hand-lettered visitor sign, blue artificial lighting, 8mm color stock, and metadata-supported 1973 date place the clip in a modest early-1970s recreational or nature-attraction setting.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot perspective, lingering on a lit rocky enclosure and instructional sign rather than a staged performance or formal wildlife display.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include blue-lit rocks, bare branches, dark wooded background, black film borders, an instructional chipmunk sign, white block lettering, and partial handwritten warning text.
Film character: The footage has dense Super 8 grain, dark exposure, saturated blue cast, soft focus, slight blur, and visible frame-edge artifacts that give it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief nocturnal insert, eerie transition, roadside-attraction cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about parks, wildlife tourism, or family travel.
Historical context: The sign suggests a managed visitor interaction with small wildlife, while the dark blue lighting and rough enclosure materials create a period-specific amateur travel-film atmosphere.
Research note: No people, logos, or brands are visible, but the sign text and possible park or enclosure setting should still be reviewed for copyright, location, and property considerations.
Research search match: Researchers might find this through searches for 1973 Colorado 8mm park footage, nighttime wildlife enclosure home movie, blue-lit chipmunk sign, or vintage visitor attraction footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with Colorado 1973 park or travel footage, and finally with broader themes of wildlife feeding areas, nighttime attractions, and amateur vacation films.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a blue-lit rocky park or wildlife-enclosure area with bare branches and a dark wooded background. — Blue-lit rocks and trees in a nighttime enclosure.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame with rocks, brush, and bare trees illuminated by strong blue light in a nighttime park-like setting. — Rocky wooded area under blue night lighting.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a blue-lit sign that reads in part, 'PLEASE FEED CHIPMUNKS HERE' and 'DO NOT TOUCH.' — Chipmunk feeding sign under blue lighting.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame centered on a blue-lit visitor sign for feeding chipmunks, with a partially visible handwritten warning below. — Visitor sign for feeding chipmunks.

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