New Mexico USA-1973: Cars Passing On A Mountain Road Near A River

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

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Cars Passing On A Mountain Road Near A River — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 capturing a scenic New Mexico landscape. A winding road hugs a rocky hillside beside a flowing river, with scrub-covered mountains under a clear sky. Cars, including a white vehicle, pass along the road, viewed through the frame of a window or vehicle. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, sun-drenched quality typical of 1970s amateur footage. This authentic archival clip offers a glimpse into mid-century American travel and natural beauty.

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: 120964873

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: 1970s 8mm New Mexico travel footage suited to documentary or educational sequences needing a brief roadside river-and-mountain landscape insert.
Period detail: The clip shows era clues in the small passing automobiles, saturated amateur color, and 8mm home-movie framing from a moving or windowed viewpoint.
Home-movie behavior: The unstaged value comes from a traveler casually filming scenery through a dark vehicle or window frame while cars move along the hillside road.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a flowing river, scrubby banks, rocky hillsides, roadside trees, a winding mountain road, passing cars, blue sky, and dark film or window borders.
Film character: The footage has visible 8mm grain, slight softness, handheld variation, color shift, and uneven exposure that give it a physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short travel cutaway, route transition, regional establishing insert, or memory beat within a 1970s American road-trip sequence.
Historical context: The scene documents recreational or everyday automobile travel through a dry Southwestern river canyon without supporting claims about a named route or landmark.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or obvious private property are visible, but copyright status and any location-specific permissions should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1973 New Mexico 8mm mountain road river footage, 1970s Southwestern road trip home movie, and vintage cars passing canyon road.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent material from the same reel, then with other 1973 New Mexico travel footage, then with broader 1970s road, river, and mountain landscape clips.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing a river in the foreground, roadside trees, and a rocky hillside road seen through dark window or film borders. — River and hillside road in a New Mexico mountain landscape.

1973 New Mexico 8mm view of a light-colored car on a winding road above a river, with scrub, trees, and a rocky slope behind it. — Car on the road above the river bend.

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame looking across a river toward roadside trees, scrub, and a rocky hillside beside a mountain road. — Rocky roadside slope across the river.

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing a river curving through scrub-covered hills, with trees along the bank and mountains in the distance. — River bend running through dry hills.

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