Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Caged Vulture Glares At Flamingos

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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 large vulture with white and black plumage and a colorful head standing in a wire cage. The bird glares through the bars while perched on a branch, with a brick wall in the background. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, faded color saturation, and natural light, capturing a nostalgic moment from a mid-20th century zoo visit. The clip is part of a home movie collection, offering authentic archival footage for documentaries, editorial content, or nostalgic storytelling.

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: 120961243

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 8mm zoo-visit footage for productions needing a brief archival animal cutaway from Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Period detail: The frames show color home-movie imagery with zoo enclosure details, wire cage bars, faded color, and visitor-style framing consistent with the supplied 1973 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The clip carries an unstaged visitor-shot perspective, lingering on captive birds as part of a casual family or travel outing rather than a formal wildlife study.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include flamingos in a grassy enclosure, a tall caged bird with white and black plumage, wire bars, a perch branch, a brick or block wall, and soft outdoor light.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows home-movie grain, mild color fade, uneven exposure, and handheld framing that preserve the physical texture of the original film.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a zoo insert, animal cutaway, travel-memory beat, or transition between broader family outing footage and enclosed wildlife views.
Historical context: The footage documents a visitor encounter with captive birds in a 1970s zoo setting without showing people, signage, or identifiable institutional branding in the visible frames.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but animal enclosure location, copyright status, and any zoo property permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Colorado Springs zoo home movie, 1970s 8mm caged vulture, vintage flamingos in zoo enclosure, and Super 8 captive bird footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Colorado Springs material, then broader 1970s zoo, bird, and home-movie travel footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Colorado Springs home-movie frame showing flamingos gathered in a grassy zoo enclosure with a fence, shrubs, and soft faded color. — Flamingos in a fenced zoo enclosure.

1973 Colorado Springs zoo frame showing a large caged bird with white and black plumage and a colorful head standing behind wire bars near a perch. — Caged bird behind wire bars.

Profile view of the caged bird.

1973 Colorado Springs zoo frame showing the large caged bird facing forward through wire mesh, with a perch branch and enclosure wall behind it. — Caged bird facing the camera.

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