New Mexico USA-1973: Prairie Dogs Walking Near Burrows in Dusty Landscape

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Year1973
Decade1970s
LocationNew Mexico, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1973 New Mexico

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Prairie Dogs Walking Near Burrows in Dusty Landscape — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in New Mexico, capturing prairie dogs in their natural habitat. The grainy, color-bleached film shows two prairie dogs near their burrows in a dry, dusty landscape with scattered rocks and sparse vegetation. One prairie dog emerges from a hole while another walks across the frame, showcasing their natural behavior. The scene is filmed in a static, observational style typical of personal home movies, with a muted purple-pink color cast and visible film grain, evoking a strong sense of nostalgia and archival authenticity.

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: 120962796

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 1381 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1973
Reel-level location note: new mexico, calsbad,santa fe,taos
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: New Mexico, 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 New Mexico 8mm clip helps answer requests for 1970s wildlife or arid Southwest landscape footage for documentary, education, museum, or period-memory use.
Period detail: The visible clues are limited to dry ground, burrow openings, sparse debris, and the muted color of the 8mm scan, which may show a 1970s home-movie record of prairie dogs in New Mexico.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of an unstaged observer watching small animals move around their burrows from a fixed home-movie viewpoint.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include prairie dogs, round burrow holes, dusty soil, scattered stones, sparse low vegetation, and a plain building wall or enclosure edge in one frame.
Film character: The footage carries visible 8mm grain, soft focus, mild exposure variation, and a purple-pink color cast that read as physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a wildlife cutaway, a quiet transition in a Southwest sequence, or a brief memory beat for home-movie natural history material.
Historical context: The scene documents small-animal behavior in a dry, open setting without visible people, signage, or identifiable public landmarks.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any location or property permissions should be reviewed separately before use.
Research search match: Useful search phrasing includes 1973 New Mexico prairie dogs on 8mm film, 1970s home movie wildlife burrows, and vintage Southwest animal footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 New Mexico footage, and then with wildlife, prairie, burrowing animals, or arid landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In this 1973 New Mexico 8mm frame, a prairie dog stands near a small burrow opening on dusty ground with a plain wall or enclosure edge behind it. — Prairie dog near burrow and wall.

A prairie dog walks across dry New Mexico ground in a 1973 8mm frame, with multiple burrow openings visible in the background. — Prairie dog walking near burrows.

Two prairie dogs are visible in this 1973 New Mexico 8mm frame, one near a burrow and another crossing the dusty foreground. — Two prairie dogs around burrow openings.

A prairie dog moves across a dusty New Mexico setting in a 1973 8mm frame, with a dark burrow opening set into the ground behind it. — Prairie dog crossing dusty ground.

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