Colorado Springs Colorado USA-1974: Cat Hiding in Tree Fork in Residential Area

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

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Cat Hiding in Tree Fork in Residential Area — Clip Details

Vintage 8mm home movie footage from Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1974 captures a close-up view of a dark cat nestled in the fork of a large tree trunk. The animal, partially hidden by the rough bark and green leaves, appears to be resting or observing its surroundings. Sunlight filters through the foliage, creating dappled light and shadow on the tree and the residential neighborhood visible in the background. The clip exhibits classic Super 8 film characteristics, including natural color saturation, film grain, and slight motion blur, offering a nostalgic glimpse of suburban life and wildlife interaction.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Shot details: Close-up
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 120967616

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 home-movie clip can serve archive requests for 1970s suburban nature, domestic animal, and neighborhood cutaway footage.
Period detail: The frames may show a 1970s residential setting, with low-rise houses, leafy yards, and an 8mm color home-movie view supporting the supplied Colorado Springs 1974 metadata.
Home-movie behavior: The camera holds close on a cat partly hidden in a tree, giving the unstaged feel of a family filmer noticing a small outdoor moment near home.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include a dark cat in the fork of a large tree, rough bark, green leaves, bright sky, sunlit rooftops, and nearby residential buildings.
Film character: The clip has a color 8mm texture with visible grain, uneven exposure, soft focus, slight handheld movement, and contact-print frame-edge darkness.
Edit role: An editor could use it as a brief insert, memory beat, or transition from domestic life to neighborhood nature or animal observation.
Historical context: The footage places a household animal within a quiet suburban streetscape, offering visual context for everyday residential outdoor life rather than a documented public event.
Research note: No people, children, logos, or audible music are indicated, but copyright status and any property-identification concerns should still be reviewed separately.
Research search match: Useful search matches include 1974 Colorado Springs 8mm cat in tree, 1970s suburban home movie animal, and vintage residential nature cutaway.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with Colorado Springs 1974 neighborhood material, and then with 1970s home-movie clips of pets, trees, and suburban yards.

Still Frames From This Clip

In the 1974 Colorado Springs home-movie frame, a dark cat is partly hidden in a large tree trunk with green leaves and residential buildings in the background. — Cat hidden in a tree fork near houses.

A dark cat appears in deep shadow against the fork of a large tree, with foliage, sky, and a residential roofline visible behind it. — Cat partly obscured by bark and shade.

The cat remains tucked in the shaded fork of the tree while the camera frames rough bark, bright leaves, sky, and nearby residential rooftops. — Cat nestled between tree trunks.

A wider 1974 Colorado Springs frame shows the cat in the tree fork, leafy branches overhead, rooftops below, and a taller residential building in the distance. — Tree-framed cat with neighborhood background.

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