Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Peacock and Bears in Zoo Enclosure

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

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Colorado Springs Colorado USA — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, in 1973, showing a peacock partially hidden behind evergreen trees near a stone wall and wooden fence. The scene transitions to two large brown bears in an enclosure with rocky terrain and boulders, one walking in the foreground and another standing on a higher level. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color fading, and a nostalgic, archival quality, capturing wildlife in a zoo or park setting.

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: 120961181

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 Springs, 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: Useful for 1970s editorial or documentary requests needing visitor-shot zoo wildlife footage from Colorado Springs on 8mm film.
Period detail: The clip shows 1973-era home-movie framing with zoo enclosure details such as stone walls, wooden fencing, evergreen planting, and rocky animal habitat forms.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries an unstaged visitor perspective, lingering briefly on partially obscured animals rather than presenting a controlled wildlife portrait.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include evergreen trees, a low stone wall, wooden fence rails, a partially hidden peacock, rocky ledges, boulders, and two bears in an enclosure.
Film character: The 8mm image has soft focus, visible grain, faded color, uneven exposure, and slight handheld instability that read as physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, or memory beat for zoo visits, 1970s family travel, or captive wildlife sequences.
Historical context: The scene documents a public-facing animal enclosure experience in Colorado Springs without showing visitors, staff, signage, or identifiable institutions in the frames.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright status and any location or animal-exhibit permissions should be reviewed separately from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1970s Colorado Springs zoo footage, 8mm bear enclosure, vintage peacock home movie, and Super 8 zoo wildlife cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs material, and then with vintage zoo or captive wildlife scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing evergreen trees, a low stone wall, wooden fence rails, and a partially hidden peacock in a zoo-like setting. — Peacock partly hidden behind evergreens near a stone wall.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with the peacock still partly concealed by evergreen branches near a stone wall and rustic fence rails. — Partially obscured peacock near fence and trees.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing the same evergreen-lined enclosure edge with stonework, grass, and wooden fencing, with the animal largely hidden from view. — Evergreen-lined enclosure edge with stonework and fence.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing two bears inside a rocky zoo enclosure, with one bear walking below and another standing on an upper ledge. — Two bears on tiered rocks in an enclosure.

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