Colorado USA-1973: A Scene From The Nativity

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

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A Scene From The Nativity — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado, USA, in 1973, capturing a dimly lit, atmospheric nativity scene. The clip shows a traditional manger setup with a baby in a cradle, surrounded by hay, a cow, and other animals under a dark blue night sky. Figures in period clothing, likely representing Mary and Joseph, stand near the manger. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a slightly shaky camera movement, evoking a nostalgic, intimate family holiday tradition. This authentic archival footage is ideal for documentaries, religious content, or nostalgic holiday projects.

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: 120958199

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: This 1973 Colorado 8mm clip supports archival requests for 1970s American Christmas, church, family holiday, or nativity-pageant material used in documentary, museum, education, or editorial productions.
Period detail: The dim blue lighting, simple manger arrangement, live animal figures, and 8mm home-movie handling may show a local 1970s nativity display or pageant setting rather than a staged studio production.
Home-movie behavior: The value is in the visitor-shot perspective, with the camera observing a low-light nativity tableau from a distance as a family or community holiday memory.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a manger or cradle with straw, a cow figure or animal, dark-robed figures near the manger, hay on the ground, a dark blue backdrop, and the vertical edges of the film frame.
Film character: The clip has dense 8mm grain, underexposed blue-black tones, soft focus, color shift, and slight handheld instability that preserve the texture of a low-light home-movie scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief holiday insert, religious cutaway, Christmas memory beat, or atmospheric transition within a sequence about family traditions or community observance.
Historical context: The footage visually reflects a traditional Christian nativity scene as preserved in a 1970s home-movie context, without enough detail to identify a specific venue, congregation, or event.
Research note: People or costumed figures appear visible and the religious subject matter warrants review, while no logos, audible music, or clearly identifiable private property are visible in the supplied frames.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1970s Colorado 8mm nativity scene, vintage home movie manger display, Super 8 Christmas pageant animals, and archival religious holiday footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado holiday material, and then with broader 1970s home-movie Christmas or nativity scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a dimly lit nativity setup with a manger, straw, a cow figure, and people or costumed figures near the scene. — Low-light nativity scene with manger and animals.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame of a dark nativity display, with a cow figure in front, straw around a manger, and indistinct figures standing near the cradle. — Cow and figures beside the manger scene.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame showing a closer low-light view of the nativity tableau with a cow, straw-covered ground, cradle or manger, and several shadowed figures. — Shadowed figures gather around the manger.

1973 Colorado 8mm frame of the nativity setting with a manger or cradle, straw, a cow figure, a reclining animal form, and indistinct people or figures in dark clothing. — Manger display with animals and figures.

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