New Mexico USA-1973: The Cathedral Basilica Of St Francis Of Assisi

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

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The Cathedral Basilica Of St Francis Of Assisi — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 captures the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in New Mexico. The clip shows the historic stone church with its prominent rose window and twin bell towers, filmed from across the street. A 'BUS LOADING ZONE' sign is visible on the right, and pedestrians walk along the sidewalk in period clothing. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: grainy texture, purple color cast, and soft focus, offering a nostalgic glimpse of mid-20th century Americana and religious 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: 120963968

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: Yes
Minors 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 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 8mm clip supports archival requests for 1970s New Mexico travel, Santa Fe landmark exteriors, Roman Catholic architecture, and documentary cutaways of historic religious sites.
Period detail: Visible period clues include the 8mm home-movie color rendering, soft handheld framing, street signage, pedestrians in 1970s-era clothing, and a curbside bus loading zone sign near the church frontage.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the value of a visitor-shot landmark view, filmed from across the street as pedestrians pass through the edge of the scene without staging.
What appears in frame: The frames show a stone church facade with twin bell towers, a circular rose window, arched entry, street trees, sidewalk pedestrians, a lamppost, and a bus loading zone sign.
Film character: The footage carries a physical 8mm texture with visible grain, mild gate softness, purple color shift, uneven exposure, and slight handheld reframing across the short view.
Edit role: An editor could use this as an exterior establishing insert, travel-memory cutaway, religious-architecture transition, or brief visual bridge in a 1970s Southwest sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents a public-facing view of a prominent Catholic church in New Mexico within the everyday street environment of a 1970s home-movie travel record.
Research note: People are visible at a distance, the church exterior and street sign may require contextual review, and users should evaluate copyright, likeness, trademark, and property considerations separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1973 8mm Santa Fe cathedral exterior, New Mexico church home movie, Cathedral Basilica of St Francis of Assisi footage, and 1970s Southwest travel landmark.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1973 Santa Fe or New Mexico travel footage, and then with broader 1970s church, tourism, and public landmark exteriors.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi facade from across the street, with a rose window, arched entry, bus loading zone sign, and pedestrians near the sidewalk. — Church facade with rose window and street sign.

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame of the cathedral exterior, with the round rose window centered above the entrance, twin towers visible, a bus loading zone sign on the right, and pedestrians at the sidewalk edge. — Cathedral exterior framed from across the street.

1973 New Mexico home-movie frame showing a tighter view of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi facade, including the rose window, arched entrance, twin towers, and bus loading zone sign. — Tighter view of the cathedral front.

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame of the cathedral facade shifted upward, emphasizing the twin towers, roofline cross, circular rose window, arched entry, and bus loading zone sign near the street. — Cathedral towers and rose window in soft 8mm color.

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