Colorado USA-1973: Mountain Goat Scaling Steep Rock Face

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

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Mountain Goat Scaling Steep Rock Face — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a mountain goat clinging to a steep, layered rock face. The clip captures the animal's remarkable agility as it navigates the sheer cliff, with a bright sky visible in the upper left. The film exhibits a distinct purple color cast and grainy texture characteristic of 8mm film from the era. The goat's white fur contrasts sharply with the dark rock, highlighting its precarious position high on the mountain. This archival footage offers a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife in its natural habitat.

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: 120958086

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 wildlife footage for productions needing a brief archival insert of a mountain goat on a steep rock face.
Period detail: The visible clues are limited to home-movie film texture, framing, and color, with the 1973 Colorado context supported by supplied metadata rather than identifiable landmarks in the frames.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged feel of a visitor or amateur filmmaker holding on a distant animal as it moves across a cliff.
What appears in frame: Across the frames, a white mountain goat appears against dark layered rock, with steep cliff surfaces, sparse vegetation, bright sky at the edge, heavy frame borders, and visible contact-sheet divisions.
Film character: The footage shows grainy 8mm texture, a strong purple color cast, soft focus, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve its physical home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short wildlife cutaway, outdoor peril insert, mountain travel transition, or memory beat within a Colorado or alpine sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a wild animal observed on a rugged mountain face, without visible people, buildings, signage, or other social context in the selected frames.
Research note: No people, logos, music, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but users should still clear copyright and confirm species and location claims separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1970s Colorado 8mm mountain goat footage, home movie wildlife on cliff, and vintage mountain animal rock face shot.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado mountain or wildlife material, and then with broader archival clips of alpine animals and rugged rock landscapes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A white mountain goat appears small against a steep layered rock face in Colorado 1973 home-movie footage, with bright sky along the upper left edge and dark film borders visible. — Mountain goat clinging to a steep rock face.

The mountain goat remains on the sheer Colorado rock face, its white body standing out against purple-cast stone and a bright sky opening near the left edge. — Goat moving across the cliff wall.

A small white mountain goat is visible partway across the dark rock face, framed by grainy 8mm texture and a pronounced purple cast from the 1973 Colorado footage. — Small goat against dark mountain rock.

The mountain goat appears on a steep purple-tinted rock wall in the Colorado home-movie footage, with darker vegetation and layered stone surrounding the animal. — Goat positioned high on layered rock.

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