Lake Tahoe Nevada USA-1973: Waving Cowboy Statue On Highway Side

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationLake Tahoe, Nevada, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 Lake Tahoe Nevada

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Waving Cowboy Statue On Highway Side — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, showing a large roadside cowboy statue waving atop a building. The iconic figure, dressed in a red shirt and cowboy hat, stands against a purple-tinged sky with scattered clouds. Classic American cars, including a Volkswagen Beetle, are visible in the foreground, suggesting a mid-century roadside stop. The film exhibits natural grain and color shifts typical of Super 8 footage, capturing a nostalgic moment of 1970s Americana and roadside architecture.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
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: 120962132

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: No
Logos / trademarks: Yes
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 1395 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Original reel label: honeymoon
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: salt lake,utah,sf, california,monerey,lake tahoe
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: Lake Tahoe, Nevada, 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: Archival 1973 Lake Tahoe roadside footage suited for edits about 1970s American travel, Nevada tourist corridors, highway signage, or vernacular roadside Americana.
Period detail: The visible Volkswagen Beetle, large cowboy figure, low roadside buildings, and color-shifted 8mm look support a 1970s highway-stop setting, while specific business names or landmark identity should be verified separately.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has a visitor-shot roadside perspective, lingering briefly on the waving cowboy statue and surrounding highway-side buildings rather than staging a formal scene.
What appears in frame: Across the frames, a tall cowboy statue in a red shirt, a roof sign, a Volkswagen Beetle, low commercial buildings, a roadside warning sign, open sky, clouds, and film frame borders are visible.
Film character: The footage carries 8mm home-movie texture through visible grain, soft focus, purple-blue color shift, slight exposure variation, and the contact-print frame edges.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, travel transition, roadside-attraction cutaway, or memory beat within a sequence about 1970s leisure travel or Nevada highway culture.
Historical context: The scene visually reflects automobile-era roadside promotion and tourist-stop architecture without establishing the exact business, ownership, or landmark status from the frames alone.
Research note: No people or faces are visible, but signage and possible business branding appear in frame, so trademark, copyright, and property-identification review remain separate from likeness concerns.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1973 Lake Tahoe Nevada 8mm roadside cowboy statue, 1970s highway attraction home movie, waving cowboy sign, Volkswagen Beetle roadside footage, and vintage Nevada tourist stop.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with neighboring shots from the same reel, then other 1973 Lake Tahoe or Nevada roadside material, and then broader 1970s American highway-signage or travel-stop footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 Lake Tahoe, Nevada home-movie frame showing a tall waving cowboy statue near roadside buildings, with a Volkswagen Beetle and a yellow road sign partly visible. — Waving cowboy statue beside a roadside stop.

1973 Lake Tahoe, Nevada frame with the cowboy figure centered above a low commercial roadside area, a Volkswagen Beetle at left, and signage visible on a building roof. — Cowboy figure over roadside buildings and cars.

1973 Lake Tahoe, Nevada home-movie still showing the cowboy statue slightly left of center, a Beetle at the lower left edge, and a roof sign over a low building. — Roadside cowboy statue and commercial roof sign.

1973 Lake Tahoe, Nevada frame placing the waving cowboy statue against a purple-tinted sky, with a roadside building and roof sign at the right edge. — Waving cowboy statue against the sky.

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