New Mexico USA-1973: Rocky Hillside And Ducks In Lagoon

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

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Rocky Hillside And Ducks In Lagoon — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in New Mexico, showing a rocky hillside with a chain-link fence and desert vegetation, including yucca plants. The scene transitions to a lagoon where a mother duck leads a line of ducklings across the water under an overcast sky. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, authentic home movie aesthetic with natural lighting and subtle camera movement.

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: 120962869

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 supports archive requests for 1970s Southwestern landscape and modest wildlife cutaways in documentary, museum, education, or period editorial projects.
Period detail: The rocky hillside, chain-link fencing, desert plants, small landscaped lagoon, and faded 8mm color may show a 1970s visitor-recorded outdoor setting in New Mexico.
Home-movie behavior: The brief handheld view shifts from a rocky desert slope to ducks moving across water, preserving the casual observational rhythm of a home-movie camera.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a rocky hillside, chain-link fence, yucca-like desert plants, lagoon water, a curved shoreline, low shrubs, and a duck with ducklings.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, soft focus, purple-magenta color shift, uneven exposure, and slight handheld framing that read as original home-movie film texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short nature cutaway, environmental transition, or quiet memory beat between broader 1970s New Mexico travel scenes.
Historical context: The clip visually places small wildlife within a maintained outdoor water feature near arid Southwestern terrain without supporting a more specific landmark or event claim.
Research note: No people, logos, or readable brands are visible, but copyright, location access, wildlife-use context, and any property or site permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 New Mexico 8mm hillside, 1970s lagoon ducks home movie, desert plants chain-link fence, and vintage ducklings on water footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 New Mexico outdoor footage, and then broader 1970s home-movie nature or wildlife cutaways.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing a rocky hillside with chain-link fencing, scattered desert vegetation, and yucca-like plants. — Rocky hillside and desert plants beside a fence.

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing a duck leading ducklings across a lagoon near a curved bank and low shrubs. — Duck and ducklings moving across lagoon water.

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing a duck and several ducklings in a line across rippled lagoon water beneath a muted sky. — Duck family crossing rippled lagoon water.

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing a duck with ducklings spread across lagoon water, with a curved shoreline and low vegetation behind them. — Duck and ducklings near the lagoon shoreline.

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