New Mexico USA-1973: Prairie Dog Explores Burrow And Stands Alert In Wilderness

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

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Prairie Dog Explores Burrow And Stands Alert In Wilderness — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in New Mexico, capturing a prairie dog exploring its arid habitat. The small rodent scurries across sandy ground near a burrow entrance, then stands upright on its hind legs to survey its surroundings. The film exhibits classic Super 8 characteristics with warm, slightly faded color tones and visible grain, offering a nostalgic glimpse of wildlife in the American Southwest. The clip shows natural animal behavior in a dry, open landscape with sparse vegetation.

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: 120962807

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 wildlife clip can support archival requests for 1970s American Southwest nature cutaways, prairie dog behavior, or home-movie views of arid open habitat.
Period detail: The visible period detail comes mainly from the 8mm color film texture, with no buildings, vehicles, clothing, signage, or landmarks visible to independently date the scene beyond the supplied 1973 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has an unstaged home-movie wildlife observation quality, holding on a prairie dog as it moves near a burrow and then rises alert on sandy ground.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a prairie dog, a burrow opening, sandy soil, scattered pebbles, sparse low vegetation, dark film-frame borders, and a contact-sheet divider from the scan presentation.
Film character: The clip shows warm faded color, visible grain, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and the handheld immediacy associated with small-gauge 8mm home-movie footage.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife insert, environmental cutaway, regional transition, or quiet memory beat within a 1970s Southwest sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents a small wild animal in a dry open landscape, offering ecological context for the American Southwest without showing human settlement or identifiable cultural activity.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, brands, or private interiors are visible, but users should still review copyright ownership and any location or wildlife-use requirements separately from likeness or property concerns.
Research search match: Relevant researcher searches might include 1973 New Mexico 8mm prairie dog, vintage Southwest wildlife footage, home movie prairie dog burrow, and 1970s arid habitat animal cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 New Mexico footage, and then with broader 1970s Southwest wildlife or desert habitat material.

Still Frames From This Clip

A prairie dog scurries across sandy New Mexico ground near a dark burrow opening in 1973 8mm home-movie footage. — Prairie dog moving near its burrow.

A prairie dog stands upright on its hind legs in an arid New Mexico landscape, seen in faded 1973 8mm footage. — Prairie dog standing alert.

A prairie dog remains upright in the sandy open habitat of New Mexico, framed by the soft grain and faded color of 1973 8mm film. — Prairie dog upright in open habitat.

A prairie dog stands alert beside sparse scrub and pebbled sandy soil in a short 1973 New Mexico 8mm wildlife shot. — Prairie dog beside sparse scrub.

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