Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: My Backyard Full Of Flamingos Sunbathing

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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 surreal backyard scene with numerous pink flamingos. The birds are scattered across a grassy lawn and a circular pool, some standing, others sunbathing or drinking. The setting features a wooden fence, lush green bushes, and a house in the background, all captured with the characteristic grain and color saturation of 1970s amateur film. The footage has a nostalgic, whimsical quality, suggesting a unique personal collection or novelty display.

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: 120961220

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: 1970s Colorado home-movie footage suited to archival requests for unusual backyard animal scenes, suburban domestic settings, or whimsical cutaways involving flamingos.
Period detail: The frames may show early-1970s amateur color footage through the visible 8mm contact-frame structure, saturated greens, soft focus, and residential yard setting noted in the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged home-movie perspective, observing flamingos scattered around a backyard lawn and shallow circular pool without visible people directing the scene.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pink flamingos, a grassy lawn, a circular pool or basin, shrubs, a wooden fence, and part of a residential house in the background.
Film character: The scan has a soft 8mm color-film texture with pronounced grain, slight overexposure on pale birds and pool surfaces, and contact-sheet framing that preserves the physical film strip feel.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief insert, memory beat, surreal transition, or visual cutaway for domestic eccentricity, animal displays, or 1970s home-movie atmosphere.
Historical context: The footage visually places exotic-looking birds within an ordinary American residential backyard, suggesting a personal or novelty scene rather than a public wildlife setting.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or music are evident from the supplied frames, but copyright, source ownership, animal-display context, and visible residential property should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 Colorado Springs home movie flamingos, 8mm backyard birds, 1970s suburban animal footage, and vintage home-movie pool scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs or Colorado residential footage, and then with broader 1970s home-movie animal or backyard novelty scenes.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing pink flamingos spread across a grassy backyard, with shrubs, a fence, and a circular pool behind them. — Flamingos gather across a backyard lawn and pool edge.

1973 Colorado Springs backyard footage showing several flamingos standing or bending near a circular pool, with dense greenery and a residential fence in the background. — Flamingos stand around a circular backyard pool.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame with flamingos around a shallow circular pool, backed by a wooden fence, bushes, and part of a house. — Brightly exposed flamingos near the pool basin.

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing flamingos in a fenced residential yard, with a bright circular pool, shrubs, and house exterior partly visible. — Flamingos remain around the sunlit backyard pool.

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