Colorado USA-1973: Water Flowing Under A Frozen Waterfall Trees Cut Down Nearby

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

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Water Flowing Under A Frozen Waterfall Trees Cut Down Nearby — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a frozen waterfall cascading over a stone ledge in a snowy forest. The scene is bathed in a striking blue tint, likely from film stock or lighting, creating a surreal, cold atmosphere. Snow blankets the ground and trees, with visible ice formations and flowing water beneath the frozen surface. The camera remains stationary, capturing the natural movement of the water and the stillness of the winter landscape. This archival clip offers a nostalgic glimpse of a remote mountain environment, with authentic film grain and color degradation characteristic of 1970s home movies.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120957592

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 winter nature footage suited to documentary cutaways, environmental sequences, cold-weather atmosphere, or home-movie-era landscape context.
Period detail: The frames may show 1970s amateur color reversal footage, with no visible people, vehicles, signs, landmarks, or other date-specific objects beyond the supplied Colorado 1973 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The stationary framing preserves a home-movie observer's view of moving water and ice in a quiet snowy forest setting rather than a staged scenic shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a frozen waterfall or icy cascade, flowing water beneath ice, snow-covered ground, a low stone ledge, dark tree shapes, cut wood or trunk forms, and heavy blue color cast.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, high-contrast shadows, gate-edge darkness, and a strong blue cast that reads as physical-film texture from the source scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a winter insert, natural transition, environmental cutaway, or memory beat suggesting cold, remote landscape conditions.
Historical context: The clip offers visual context for recreational or family-shot mountain landscape filming in Colorado, while the frames do not identify a specific park, town, waterfall, or event.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately from likeness and brand concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 Colorado 8mm frozen waterfall, vintage home movie snowy forest stream, blue-tinted winter nature footage, and archival ice cascade cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other Colorado 1973 winter footage, and then with broader 1970s home-movie nature or frozen-water themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

Blue-tinted 1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a frozen waterfall or icy cascade above a snow-covered ledge in a wooded setting. — Frozen cascade above a snowy stone ledge.

Blue-cast home-movie frame from Colorado showing ice and moving water below a frozen waterfall, with trees and a low ledge in the foreground. — Flowing water beneath ice and snow.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a frozen waterfall in a snowy wooded area, with a dark tree line and rough stone or log-edged ledge. — Snow and ice around a wooded cascade.

Blue-tinted final frame from the Colorado home movie showing a frozen stream or waterfall area, snow-covered ground, and dark trees around the water. — Frozen stream edge in shadowed woods.

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