New Mexico USA-1973: Wooden Bridge over Dry Creek

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

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

$149 · CommercialDirect license: commercial and editorial use

$149 USD flat · royalty-free worldwide · 4K restored master (MP4)

Need 10+ clips? Send your brief and get a curated shortlist →

Stockfilm licenses the rights identified in the applicable agreement. Additional use-specific review may be required. See the Licensing Guide and Archive Integrity.

Wooden Bridge over Dry Creek — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 in New Mexico, capturing a rustic wooden truss bridge spanning a dry creek bed. The camera pans slowly left, revealing a weathered bridge surrounded by green trees and shrubs against a rugged, arid hillside. In the background, a red-roofed cabin is partially visible through the foliage. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and a soft focus characteristic of Super 8 film, evoking a nostalgic, peaceful atmosphere of a quiet rural escape.

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: 120964821

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.

View source reel context Open Clip Documentation Record Request source information

Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1970s rural New Mexico or Southwestern landscape sequences needing a quiet home-movie view of a rustic bridge and dry creek setting.
Period detail: The footage may show a 1973 visitor or family-film view of a weathered wooden truss bridge, scrub vegetation, and a red-roofed rural structure in an arid New Mexico landscape.
Home-movie behavior: The slow panning viewpoint gives the clip the unstaged feel of a traveler pausing to record a scenic roadside or hiking-area detail rather than a formal survey shot.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include the wooden truss bridge, dry creek bed, green trees, brushy grasses, arid hillside, and a partially obscured red-roofed cabin.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, visible grain, slight color fading, and handheld framing that preserve the physical texture of a 1970s home movie.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, rural memory beat, or establishing insert within a Southwest travel, family-history, or landscape sequence.
Historical context: The scene visually documents recreational or rural landscape observation in New Mexico without showing identifiable people, vehicles, signage, or public events.
Research note: No people, logos, or audible music are indicated, but users should still evaluate copyright status and any property-context concerns around the visible bridge and distant structure.
Research search match: Relevant searches might include 1973 New Mexico 8mm bridge footage, rural Southwest home movie, wooden truss bridge dry creek, and vintage desert landscape cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then with other 1973 New Mexico material, and then with broader rural bridge, desert landscape, hiking, or travel-home-movie footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing a rustic wooden truss bridge crossing a dry creek bed with trees and scrub below an arid hillside. — Wooden bridge set among trees and desert scrub.

1973 New Mexico home-movie frame with the bridge partly centered, green trees around the creek bed, and a dry rocky hillside in the background. — Bridge framed against trees and a dry hillside.

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing the wooden bridge at the edge of the shot, with scrub, trees, hillside, and a partially hidden red-roofed cabin-like structure behind it. — Red-roofed structure glimpsed beyond the bridge.

Final 1973 New Mexico frame with the bridge cropped at right, trees and brush across the foreground, a red-roofed rural structure in the distance, and an arid hillside behind. — Cropped bridge view with trees and hillside beyond.

Visually Similar Clips