Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1974: Large Tree with Dark Shape in Fork

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Year1974
Decade1970s
LocationColorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD

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Large Tree with Dark Shape in Fork — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1974, showing a large tree trunk in the foreground with a dark, indistinct silhouette nestled in its fork. Through the branches, a residential neighborhood with houses and green trees is visible under a bright sky. The image exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics: warm color tones, grain, and slight motion blur, capturing a candid, nostalgic moment of a mysterious animal-like figure in a suburban backyard.

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: 120967600

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 1379 · Super 8 · 7″ reel
Reel-level year note: 1974
Reel-level location note: vail colorado
Date: 1974 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: Colorado Springs, Colorado, 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 1974 Colorado Springs 8mm clip can support archive requests for 1970s suburban backyard atmosphere, ambiguous animal sightings, or brief nature cutaways in documentary and education edits.
Period detail: The visible pitched-roof houses, leafy yard setting, and warm small-gauge color rendering may show a mid-1970s residential Colorado neighborhood as supported by the clip metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The footage has the unstaged value of a home-movie camera lingering on an odd dark shape in a tree fork while wind moves leaves around it.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a large rough-barked tree trunk, green leaves, a dark indistinct shape near the fork, bright sky, distant rooftops, shrubs, and neighboring house walls.
Film character: The scan shows 8mm home-movie texture with grain, soft focus, exposure variation, gate edges, dust specks, and slight handheld instability.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a short insert, mystery beat, backyard wildlife cutaway, or atmospheric transition within a 1970s home-movie sequence.
Historical context: The clip visually places an ambiguous animal-like form within an ordinary residential yard, giving social context to casual family filming rather than formal wildlife documentation.
Research note: No people, faces, logos, or audible music are indicated, but the animal identity is uncertain and any use should separately assess copyright, location/property context, and factual claims.
Research search match: Useful search phrases include 1974 Colorado Springs 8mm backyard tree, Super 8 suburban animal silhouette, windy leaves home movie, and ambiguous gorilla-like shape in tree.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with adjacent shots from the same reel, then other 1974 Colorado Springs residential footage, then broader 1970s backyard, tree, wind, or unusual animal-sighting material.

Still Frames From This Clip

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame showing a rough tree trunk in the foreground, green leaves, bright sky, and residential rooftops beyond. — Tree trunk and suburban rooftops through leaves.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with a dark indistinct silhouette near a forked tree trunk, with leaves, sky, and neighboring houses in the background. — Dark shape nestled near the tree fork.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame dominated by a large tree trunk and leafy branches, with a residential roofline and trees visible in the distance. — Foreground bark with neighborhood background.

1974 Colorado Springs 8mm frame with warmer exposure on the tree trunk, leafy branches, bright sky, and residential rooftops beyond the yard. — Warm-toned tree view with rooftops beyond.

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