Colorado USA-1973: Blue-Tinted Waterfall On Mountain Side

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

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Blue-Tinted Waterfall On Mountain Side — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a dramatic winter scene on the side of a mountain. A powerful waterfall cascades down a rocky cliff face, illuminated by a striking blue tint that gives the water a surreal, glowing appearance. Snow clings to the rugged rock formations, and the turbulent flow creates a misty spray at the base. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain and a slightly soft focus, capturing the raw beauty of nature in a nostalgic, analog style. This archival clip evokes a sense of quiet wonder and the timeless power of the natural world.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120957543

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: Useful for 1970s Colorado nature or winter landscape requests needing brief archival 8mm cutaways of mountain water, rock, snow, and cold-weather atmosphere.
Period detail: The frames themselves show no date-specific objects, but the 8mm source and supplied 1973 metadata support a 1970s home-movie nature scene in Colorado.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the value of an unstaged visitor or traveler view, lingering on a dramatic waterfall and cliff face rather than arranging people or activity for the camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a blue-tinted waterfall, rough rock wall, patches of snow or ice, misty spray, dark frame edges, and a low rocky ledge at the base.
Film character: The clip carries physical 8mm texture through soft focus, dense blue color cast, visible grain, uneven exposure, and contact-print-like frame borders.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a winter mountain cutaway, a transitional memory beat, or an atmospheric insert for travel, nature, weather, or Colorado archival sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a home-movie view of a mountain waterfall in winter conditions, with natural landscape details standing in for place and season rather than human activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, brands, or private property are visible in the provided frames, but copyright status and location identification should still be verified separately.
Research search match: Likely matches searches for 1973 Colorado 8mm waterfall footage, blue-tinted winter mountain waterfall, vintage home movie rocky cliff snow, and Super 8 nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado travel or mountain material, then broader winter waterfall, snow, rock, and nature texture clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a blue-tinted waterfall cascading over a rough mountain rock face with patches of snow or ice and mist at the base. — Blue-tinted waterfall on rocky winter cliff.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame with a bright blue waterfall plume falling beside a rugged cliff wall, with snow or ice visible around the lower rocks. — Water and spray against dark winter rock.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a close view of blue-tinted water and spray over a rugged cliff face, with bright snow or ice pooled along the base. — Close waterfall view with snow at the base.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame of a blue-tinted mountain waterfall dropping along a shadowed rock wall, with snow or ice at the bottom and visible film-frame edges. — Shadowed rock face with blue waterfall flow.

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