New Mexico USA-1973: Wooden Truss Bridge over Small River

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

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Wooden Truss Bridge over Small River — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in New Mexico, showing a rustic wooden truss bridge spanning a small, calm river. The bridge, constructed with weathered planks and log supports, is framed by lush green trees and foliage, with dappled sunlight filtering through the canopy. The scene captures a quiet, peaceful moment in nature, with the gentle movement of water below and a natural, unposed quality characteristic of personal film archives. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film grain and color saturation, evoking a strong sense of nostalgia and Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Exterior
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120964806

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: Useful for requests needing 1970s New Mexico 8mm landscape footage, rustic rural infrastructure, or a quiet nature cutaway for documentary and educational edits.
Period detail: The weathered wooden truss construction, natural river setting, and saturated 8mm color support a 1970s home-movie view without identifying a specific bridge or landmark.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has an unstaged traveler or family-film perspective, holding briefly on the bridge and river as a scenic detail rather than presenting a planned survey shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a wooden truss bridge, log or timber supports, a small calm river, green trees, brush along the bank, dry hillside, and sunlit foliage.
Film character: The footage shows fine 8mm grain, mild softness, saturated greens and browns, slight exposure variation, and handheld framing that give it physical-film archival texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural travel insert, nature transition, infrastructure cutaway, or quiet memory beat within a Southwestern or Americana sequence.
Historical context: The scene records a modest wooden bridge in a natural setting, reflecting everyday recreational or roadside observation rather than an identifiable public event.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright, location identification, and any property-related permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Likely researcher matches include 1973 New Mexico 8mm wooden bridge, Super 8 rural river crossing, vintage home movie nature cutaway, and rustic truss bridge footage.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 New Mexico landscapes, and then with broader vintage rural bridge, river, and nature material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing a weathered wooden truss bridge over a calm river, partly shaded by trees and foliage. — Wooden bridge over a calm river.

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame with the bridge span centered over still water, framed by leafy trees and dark film-edge shadows. — Bridge span framed by trees.

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing a closer view of the weathered wooden truss bridge, log support, river surface, and overhanging greenery. — Close view of the truss and support.

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing the bridge from farther back, with trees, brush, dry hillside, and a shaded riverbank around the span. — Wider bridge view with hillside and trees.

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