Colorado USA-1973: Above The Blue River

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

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Above The Blue River — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a dramatic blue-tinted view of a river flowing through a rocky canyon. The camera pans across a metal bridge spanning the waterway, with snow-covered banks and rugged cliffs visible under a cool, monochromatic blue filter. The grainy, analog quality and distinctive color cast evoke a strong sense of nostalgia and archival authenticity, capturing a quiet moment of natural landscape and early 1970s Americana.

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: 120957834

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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 museum sequences needing an elevated, visitor-shot view of a snow-edged river canyon and bridge.
Period detail: The frames may show early 1970s home-movie travel footage, with visible clues limited to the 8mm format, blue color cast, metal bridge, rocky canyon walls, and snow along the riverbank.
Home-movie behavior: The camera looks down from a high vantage point, preserving the informal travel perspective of someone pausing to observe a river crossing rather than staging a scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a river or waterway, snow-covered banks, rugged rock walls, a dark metal bridge, railings, a small cylindrical post or vent, and heavy black film borders.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, strong blue tinting, soft focus, uneven exposure, and frame-edge artifacts that give the scan a clear physical-film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief landscape insert, travel transition, cold-weather cutaway, or reflective memory beat within a Colorado or American West sequence.
Historical context: The footage documents a home-movie view of built infrastructure crossing a natural canyon landscape, without enough visible detail to identify a specific landmark or event.
Research note: People are flagged in the source metadata, so likeness review may be needed even if no clear faces are readable in these stills, while separate copyright, location, and property considerations should be assessed independently.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1970s Colorado 8mm river canyon footage, blue-tinted home movie bridge over river, snowy rocky waterway travel film, and vintage American West landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado travel footage, and then with broader themes of rivers, bridges, canyons, snow, and home-movie landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame looking down at a snow-lined riverbank beside a rocky canyon wall, with part of a dark metal bridge crossing the lower left of the view. — Snowy canyon riverbank and bridge edge.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a dark metal bridge over a snow-edged river or channel, with rugged rock walls behind it and a small cylindrical post near the crossing. — Metal bridge over a snowy canyon waterway.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame looking down on a river bend bordered by snow and canyon rock, with a dark bridge railing crossing the foreground. — River bend below a bridge railing.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame of a snow-edged river or waterway below steep canyon rock, with a dark metal bridge crossing the lower foreground under a strong blue cast. — Bridge foreground above a snowy river channel.

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