Colorado USA-1973: Snow Avalanche on Mountain Slope

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

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Snow Avalanche on Mountain Slope — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a dramatic winter landscape under a deep blue night filter. The scene captures a snow-covered mountain slope with turbulent snow movement, possibly an avalanche or wind-driven snow, creating a dynamic, textured flow across the frame. The image is grainy with high contrast, characteristic of 8mm film, and features dark silhouettes of trees and rocks against the illuminated snow. The dark borders suggest a projected film reel, enhancing its nostalgic, archival quality. This atmospheric clip evokes isolation and the raw power of nature in a remote mountain setting.

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: 120957571

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 Colorado 8mm footage suited for documentary or educational sequences needing a brief atmospheric view of winter mountain snow movement at night or under a strong blue filter.
Period detail: The visible period clues are primarily the 8mm film format, projected-frame borders, heavy grain, and the metadata-supported 1973 Colorado setting rather than identifiable built features or landmarks.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries the unstaged value of a home-movie camera observing a dramatic natural scene from a fixed or minimally moving vantage point, with no people or performed action visible.
What appears in frame: The frames show blue-toned snow, a steep mountain or rocky slope, turbulent powdery movement, dark tree or rock silhouettes, deep black frame edges, and visible film-gate borders.
Film character: The footage has pronounced 8mm grain, high contrast, blue filtration or night exposure, soft detail, and dark projection borders that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, environmental insert, or memory beat for winter travel, mountain risk, severe weather, or remote landscape material.
Historical context: As a 1973 Colorado home-movie scene, it visually situates winter recreation or travel around a remote mountain environment without showing identifiable people, vehicles, buildings, or named terrain.
Research note: No people, logos, audible music, or clear private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location identification, and any avalanche characterization should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful researcher phrases include 1970s Colorado 8mm snow slope, vintage home movie avalanche-like snow movement, blue night filter mountain snow, and winter mountain landscape archival footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado winter footage, and finally with broader themes of mountain weather, snow travel, and remote landscape inserts.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing blue-filtered snow or powder moving across a dark rocky mountain slope with heavy grain and projected-film borders. — Blue snow movement across a dark mountain slope.
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1973 Colorado 8mm frame with a blue night-filter look, showing turbulent snow texture on a steep slope framed by dark film borders and shadowed terrain. — Turbulent snow texture under a blue cast.
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1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing blue-filtered snow movement against dark mountain forms, with soft focus, high contrast, and visible frame-edge artifacts. — Blue-filtered snow against dark mountain forms.
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1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a brighter blue snow drift or flow near the base of a dark slope, with dense grain and strong black borders from the film scan. — Bright blue snow flow near the slope base.
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