Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Two Birds In A Cage On A Tree Hanging Out

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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 1973 home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, showing two large birds, likely vultures or eagles, perched inside a zoo enclosure. The birds are seen behind dark vertical bars, with one preening and the other resting on a wooden branch. The scene is captured on 8mm film with natural daylight, exhibiting characteristic grain, color fading, and soft focus typical of amateur archival footage. The background reveals green foliage and a metal cage structure, suggesting a zoo or wildlife exhibit. The clip captures a quiet, observational moment of captive birds in a naturalistic 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: 120961288

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 home-movie footage from Colorado Springs that can support archival requests for zoo visits, captive birds, wildlife exhibits, or family-travel cutaways without visible people.
Period detail: The visible 1970s clues are mainly the faded color 8mm stock, soft handheld framing, zoo-style metal cage bars, and a brief distant view of a rocky hill with a tower-like structure.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the quiet visitor-shot perspective of someone pausing at an animal enclosure and then briefly pointing the camera toward the surrounding attraction or hillside.
What appears in frame: The frames show two large dark birds behind vertical enclosure bars, a pale wooden perch, green cage backing, dappled foliage shadows, and a distant rocky hillside with a tall structure in the final frame.
Film character: The footage carries a home-movie 8mm texture with visible grain, soft focus, mild color fading, uneven exposure, and slight handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a short observational insert, zoo-visit cutaway, wildlife-in-captivity detail, or transition from animal enclosure footage to a broader Colorado Springs travel sequence.
Historical context: The imagery reflects a 1970s leisure or tourism visit in which captive wildlife and scenic surroundings are recorded casually from a visitor viewpoint.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but bird species, exact zoo or attraction identity, copyright status, and any property permissions should be checked before use.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm zoo birds, vintage home movie captive vultures or eagles, 1970s wildlife enclosure footage, and Colorado travel zoo cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs footage, and then with broader 1970s zoo, wildlife, travel, or roadside-attraction material.

Still Frames From This Clip

Two large dark birds, likely captive raptors or vultures, perch behind dark vertical bars in 1973 Colorado Springs home-movie footage. — Two caged birds on a wooden perch.

Two large captive birds are framed through dark bars, one turned toward the camera and the other partly side-on, in vintage 8mm footage from Colorado Springs. — Caged birds seen through dark bars.

The camera holds close on a dark perched bird inside the enclosure, with a second bird partly visible through the bars in the same 1973 home-movie sequence. — Close view of a perched bird inside the enclosure.

A brief exterior view shows a rocky Colorado Springs hillside with a tall tower-like structure and blue sky, following the bird enclosure shots. — Rocky hillside and tower-like structure.

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