New Mexico USA-1973: Cattle Grazing Beside The Railroad

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

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Cattle Grazing Beside The Railroad — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from 1973 showing cattle grazing in a dry, open field in New Mexico. The scene is viewed through a window frame, with a railroad track running horizontally across the middle ground. Several brown and white cows graze near a wire fence, with a utility pole and scattered bushes in the background under a pale sky. The film exhibits natural grain, slight color fading, and authentic Super 8 characteristics, capturing a quiet moment of rural Americana.

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: 120965676

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: 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 New Mexico 8mm clip can support archival requests for rural American landscape, cattle grazing, railroad-adjacent farmland, or home-movie travel material from the 1970s.
Period detail: The dry open grazing land, simple wire fencing, utility pole, window-framed view, and handmade-looking end title card reading "Adios New Mexico" may show a 1970s home-movie travel context.
Home-movie behavior: The clip has the unstaged quality of a traveler or family member filming a quiet rural view through a window before ending the New Mexico portion of a reel.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include cattle in a dry field, a horizontal railroad track or roadbed, wire fencing, a utility pole, low bushes, distant horizon, pale sky, and an end title card with a camera-operator silhouette.
Film character: The footage carries an 8mm home-movie texture with soft focus, visible grain, muted color, slight fading, and contact-sheet frame edges that reinforce its physical-film origin.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a rural insert, travel-reel transition, Western landscape cutaway, or quiet memory beat between broader 1970s Americana scenes.
Historical context: The view documents everyday cattle grazing and open land in New Mexico without making specific claims about ranch ownership, rail line identity, or exact locality.
Research note: No people are visible, but the readable "Adios New Mexico" title graphic and any possible rail or roadside markings should be reviewed separately from copyright, likeness, and property considerations.
Research search match: Likely researcher searches include 1973 New Mexico 8mm cattle grazing, 1970s rural railroad landscape, vintage home movie New Mexico ranch scene, and Super 8 travel title card.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent footage from the same reel, then with other 1973 New Mexico travel scenes, and then with thematically related cattle, railroad, desert, or rural Americana footage.

Still Frames From This Clip

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame showing cattle grazing near a fence and railroad track, seen through a dark window frame with bushes and a low horizon beyond. — Cattle grazing beside a railroad view.

1973 New Mexico 8mm frame with several cattle grazing in a dry field beside a horizontal track or roadbed, framed by dark vertical window edges. — Cattle in dry grazing land.

1973 home-movie title card reading "Adios New Mexico" with a blue silhouette of a person operating a film camera against a wrinkled paper-like background. — Adios New Mexico title card.

1973 8mm home-movie frame showing an "Adios New Mexico" title card, with a stylized camera operator silhouette and visible film softness and fading. — Travel reel closing title.

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