Colorado Springs Colorado USA .-1973: Squirrel Falls Off Fence, Man On Dock

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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, 1973, showing a squirrel perched on a wooden fence before falling. The scene transitions to a man standing on a wooden dock by a sparkling lake, with mountains and trees in the background. Ducks swim in the water, and the film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, candid quality typical of personal summer vacation recordings from the era.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: editorial use only Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120961716

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Editorial only Direct license: editorial use only. Editorial use only: documentary, news, educational, internal and organic social use. Not permitted in advertising, sponsored or branded content, broadcast promotion or any paid commercial placement.

Editorial use only; commercial use is not offered for this clip. Review the flags below for your editorial context.

People visible: Yes
Minors 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: This 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm home-movie clip can support archival requests for informal 1970s vacation footage, wildlife humor, lakeside recreation, and quiet mountain-region cutaways.
Period detail: The footage may show early 1970s casual outdoor leisure through the visible wooden fence, lakeside dock, clothing silhouette, and soft color response typical of small-gauge amateur film.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the candid value of a family camera catching a squirrel on a fence and then lingering on a man standing still on a dock beside a lake.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a squirrel on a wooden fence, leafy trees, a lake with bright reflected light, ducks on the water, a standing man on a dock, shoreline trees, low buildings, and mountains in the distance.
Film character: The 8mm image carries noticeable grain, gate edges, slight exposure variation, muted color shifts, and handheld framing that read as authentic physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short comic animal insert, a lakeside transition, a summer memory beat, or a calm establishing cutaway within a 1970s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually situates a private vacation or family outing in a Colorado lakeside setting, with ordinary outdoor recreation and casual observation rather than a staged public event.
Research note: A person is visible on the dock, so likeness review may be needed, while copyright, location access, and any property considerations should be assessed separately from the absence of visible logos.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1973 Colorado Springs 8mm lake footage, 1970s home movie squirrel on fence, vintage dock and ducks, and Super 8 mountain lake vacation scene.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 Colorado Springs or Colorado lake footage, and then with broader 1970s family vacation, wildlife, dock, and mountain-water themes.

Still Frames From This Clip

A squirrel sits on top of a wooden fence in Colorado Springs home-movie footage from 1973, with trees and a light-colored building behind it. — Squirrel on a backyard-style fence.

Ducks move across a sunlit lake in 1973 Colorado Springs footage, with shoreline trees, low buildings, and mountains beyond the water. — Ducks on a mountain lake.

Man standing on a lakeside dock.

The man is still standing on the dock in the 1973 Colorado Springs lake scene, framed against sparkling water, shoreline trees, and distant mountains. — Lakeside figure against mountain scenery.

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