Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Flamingos Eating In Pond Calmly

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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 1973 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, showing a group of pink flamingos gathered around a circular backyard pond. The birds stand calmly in and near the water, some bending to feed, while a Tudor-style house with dark timber framing and a wooden fence appears in the background. Lush green bushes and trees frame the scene under bright daylight, with natural film grain and slight color fading characteristic of Super 8 footage. The clip captures a quiet, nostalgic moment of domestic wildlife observation.

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: 120961232

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

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Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: This 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm clip helps satisfy archival requests for quiet 1970s home-movie wildlife or zoo-style bird observation footage for documentary inserts, education programs, or nostalgic domestic-life sequences.
Period detail: The Super 8-era color, backyard pond setting, wooden fencing, dense shrubs, and Tudor-style residential architecture provide visible 1970s domestic visual context without identifying a specific landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The camera observes the flamingos calmly from a casual home-movie distance, emphasizing an unstaged moment of birds feeding and standing around water rather than a formal wildlife study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include pink flamingos, a shallow circular pond, bright sunlit water, green bushes, a wooden fence, overhanging trees, and a Tudor-style house exterior in the background.
Film character: The footage has soft 8mm texture, visible grain, mild color fading, high daylight exposure, and contact-sheet frame edges that support its scanned home-movie character.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, memory beat, or gentle transition into themes of 1970s leisure, animal observation, gardens, or domestic travel footage.
Historical context: The scene reflects a 1970s home-movie practice of recording visually striking animals in a landscaped outdoor setting, with no people or brands visible in the provided frames.
Research note: No people, faces, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright in the underlying footage and any property or location considerations should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm flamingos, 1970s home movie birds at pond, vintage Super 8 flamingo feeding, and archival backyard wildlife footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Colorado Springs material, then with similar 1970s home-movie animal, pond, garden, or bird-observation footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing pink flamingos near a sunlit circular pond, with green bushes, a wooden fence, and a Tudor-style house exterior in the background. — Flamingos gather near a circular pond in bright daylight.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with flamingos bending and standing beside a bright backyard pond, framed by shrubs, fencing, and a dark-trimmed house exterior. — Flamingos feed calmly beside the pond.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing flamingos at a shallow circular pond, with bright exposure, leafy shrubs, a wooden fence, and residential architecture beyond. — Birds stand and feed around the shallow pond.

1973 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a wider, slightly faded view of flamingos near a pond, backed by a wooden fence, trees, shrubs, and a house roofline. — A wider faded frame shows the flock near the fence line.

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