New Mexico USA-1973: Mountain Range Along Water with Power Lines

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

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Mountain Range Along Water with Power Lines — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 showing a scenic drive through New Mexico. The clip captures a dark, overcast sky with purple-tinged clouds and a silhouetted mountain range along a body of water. Power lines and utility poles pass by, indicating motion from a moving vehicle. The film exhibits classic Super 8 grain, color shifts, and a nostalgic, atmospheric quality. This authentic archival footage is ideal for documentaries, historical projects, or nostalgic content.

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: 120965452

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 New Mexico 8mm road-travel footage suited to documentary inserts about western landscapes, weather, rural driving, or travel memory sequences.
Period detail: The clip may show early-1970s roadside infrastructure through visible utility poles and power lines passing a mountain ridge and water under an overcast sky.
Home-movie behavior: The footage carries an unstaged passenger-window perspective, with the moving vehicle turning the landscape into a brief observational home-movie travel record.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark mountain ridge, distant low hills, a body of water, cloudy purple-blue sky, roadside power lines, a utility pole, and soft film-frame borders.
Film character: The 8mm scan shows pronounced grain, muted exposure, purple-blue color shift, gate edges, and motion blur consistent with handheld filming from a moving car.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short cutaway, transition, or atmospheric travel beat between scenes about New Mexico roads, weather, or western terrain.
Historical context: As home-movie footage, it documents a roadside view of rural landscape and utility infrastructure without showing identifiable people, businesses, or named landmarks.
Research note: No people, logos, or private property are visible in the supplied frames, but copyright, location identification, and any broader reel context should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Relevant searches might include 1973 8mm New Mexico driving footage, overcast mountain range home movie, roadside power lines, rural western landscape, and Super 8 travel cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1973 New Mexico travel footage, then broader 1970s western road, mountain, weather, or utility-line landscape material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing a silhouetted mountain ridge, distant hills, water, and an overcast purple-blue sky from a moving roadside view. — Mountain ridge and water beneath an overcast sky.

1973 New Mexico roadside frame with a utility pole and power lines crossing a silhouetted mountain ridge under a cloudy purple-blue sky. — Power lines crossing a mountain view.

1973 New Mexico 8mm travel frame showing a dark hillside, water, distant low terrain, and layered overcast clouds with visible film grain. — Roadside hillside and water under layered clouds.

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing a silhouetted ridge, water at the base, bright cloud formations, and soft motion blur from a moving car. — Silhouetted ridge below bright clouds.

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