Colorado USA-1973: A Spectacular Winter View At The Base Of A Large Frozen Waterfall

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

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A Spectacular Winter View At The Base Of A Large Frozen... — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, capturing a dramatic winter scene at the base of a frozen waterfall. The clip features a powerful cascade of ice and snow illuminated by a striking blue tint, creating an otherworldly, surreal atmosphere. The rugged rock face and textured ice formations are highlighted by the film's grainy quality and natural light, emphasizing the raw beauty of the winter landscape. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse into a cold, serene moment in nature, perfect for historical or environmental storytelling.

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: 120957556

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: 1970s 8mm Colorado winter nature footage suited to archival requests for frozen waterfall scenery, atmospheric landscape inserts, and cold-weather environmental cutaways.
Period detail: The frames show a blue-tinted 8mm view of ice, snow, and rock, with the 1973 Colorado setting supported by clip metadata rather than visible signage or landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries a visitor-shot home-movie perspective, holding close on the base of the frozen waterfall as spectacle rather than staging any human activity.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a frozen waterfall base, dense ice formations, snow spray or frozen mist, dark rock face, shadowed edges, and blue color cast from the film scan or original exposure.
Film character: The footage has a strongly grainy 8mm texture, high-contrast blue exposure, soft detail, and slight frame-to-frame variation consistent with short handheld home-movie filming.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief winter landscape insert, cold transition, environmental cutaway, or surreal memory beat within a 1970s travel or nature sequence.
Historical context: As archival home-movie footage, it documents a private travel encounter with a dramatic frozen landscape in Colorado without showing people, signage, infrastructure, or identifiable public events.
Research note: No people, logos, brands, audible music, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location identification, and any broader reel context should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1973 Colorado 8mm frozen waterfall, vintage home movie winter ice formations, blue tinted waterfall footage, and 1970s mountain landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado winter footage, and then with broader vintage waterfall, ice, snow, and mountain travel material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a blue-tinted frozen waterfall base, dense ice texture, snow or frozen spray, and a dark rock face. — Frozen waterfall base with blue-tinted ice and rock.

1973 Colorado home-movie frame of the frozen waterfall base, with bright blue ice and snow against a dark rugged rock wall. — Blue ice and snow at the base of a frozen waterfall.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame with a closer view of the frozen waterfall base, showing heavy blue ice, snow texture, and shadowed rock. — Close view of frozen spray and ice at the waterfall base.

1973 Colorado home-movie frame showing dense blue ice and frozen spray at the base of a waterfall, bordered by dark rock and deep shadows. — Dense frozen waterfall texture in blue light.

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