New Mexico USA-1973: Bison Family in Rocky Enclosure

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

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Bison Family in Rocky Enclosure — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in New Mexico, showing a family of bison—two adults and a calf—walking and grazing in a rocky enclosure bordered by a chain-link fence. The grainy, color-bleached film captures the animals in natural motion under overcast skies, with a distinct purple tint characteristic of aged Super 8 film. The scene transitions to a distant view of a water feature and low-slung adobe-style buildings, suggesting a zoo or wildlife park setting. The footage exhibits classic home movie qualities with film grain, slight camera shake, and darkened borders, evoking a nostalgic, archival feel.

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: 120962955

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.

Editorial use is the safest path. For commercial use, a clearance review is recommended for the flags below.

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 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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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: 1970s New Mexico home-movie footage that can support archival requests for zoo or wildlife-park bison, family animal groups, and visitor-shot recreation scenes.
Period detail: The 8mm color, distant visitor viewpoint, low concrete structures, chain-link fencing, and water feature may show a 1970s zoo or wildlife-park setting in New Mexico.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged value of a visitor pausing on bison in an enclosure before turning toward a wider recreation area with water and scattered visitors.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include two adult bison, a calf, rocky ground, chain-link fencing, a low wall or railing, a water feature, low adobe-style buildings, and distant people.
Film character: The footage carries a home-movie texture with visible grain, faded color, purple cast, soft focus, slight exposure variation, and dark frame borders from the 8mm scan.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief wildlife-park insert, an animal cutaway, or a transition from enclosed animals to a broader visitor-area establishing view.
Historical context: The scene visually documents recreational animal viewing in a built enclosure, with the bison presented as part of a public or managed display rather than open range.
Research note: People appear only distantly in the wider views, with no readable logos visible, but likeness, location, property, and copyright status should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 New Mexico 8mm bison enclosure, 1970s zoo home movie, bison calf wildlife park footage, and vintage Super 8 animal exhibit.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with New Mexico 1973 visitor or zoo footage, and then with broader 1970s wildlife-park or animal-enclosure material.

Still Frames From This Clip

In 1973 New Mexico home-movie footage, two adult bison and a calf stand and graze in a rocky enclosure bordered by chain-link fencing. — Bison family in a rocky fenced enclosure.

The bison group moves through the rocky enclosure, with a calf between the darker adult animals and fence lines visible behind them. — Bison group moving through the enclosure.

A distant visitor-area view shows a water feature, low buildings, paths, light poles, and small people figures under an overcast sky in New Mexico. — Wide view of water feature and visitor area.

The final frame holds on the wider recreation or zoo area, with a fountain-like water feature, low structures, paths, and distant visitors visible. — Distant visitor area with water feature.

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